Incorrect appearance of bullets

Question

Hi everybody. I need some with bulleted list.

I work with FM 2017 (14.0.2.425). Most of the time I use it on my office PC, and everything goes smoothly in this case. Recently I was forced to use it on my notebook as well. I’ve installed the same FM version and placed all fonts used in the document to C:\Windows\Fonts. I’ve checked the “Myriad Roman” font is installed on both machines. However, here the problem began.

On my office computer, FM shows bullets fine (the following illustration):

However, on my note book FM shows the following:

I’ve also checked that Zapf fonts are present on both computers.

Any ideas what’s happening and how to solve the problem?

Thanks in advance

Bob_Niland · Answer

Don't use that legacy overlay Zapf Dingbat font (or WingDings or WebDings, for that matter; same base problem). Use a Unicode bullet if populated in Myriad Pro, such as:
• U+2022 BULLET
● U+25CF BLACK CIRCLE
⬤ U+2B24 BLACK LARGE CIRCLE
I don't have Myriad on my system to check. If your main font doesn't have the bullet you need, then use a font that does, such as Segeo UI Symbol, and set up a Character Format to apply it.

The bullet in Zapf resides at \x6c in FM notation, which is the same code point as
U+006C LATIN SMALL LETTER L
In any workflow where Zapf can't be mapped, you'll get an "l" instead of a bullet.

Getting away from legacy codepage/overlay fonts is increasingly important. If the workflow includes output to HTML, for example, these old overlays simply don't work; whereas most browsers perform any needed font fallback for unpopulated Unicode codepoints.

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