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Lord_Malone
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November 10, 2020
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Link in Table of Contents Not Working

  • November 10, 2020
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Greetings FrameMaker community! My team is currently using FM 2019 and we're working on finalizing a product for a customer this week. The problem is that some of there are five sections/chapters in the Table of Contents (TOC) that are not linking to the corresponding page of the document where its supposed to jump to. In the Error Report is states "Could not open section XXX because it uses unavailbe fonts". The entire document is written in ariel font by default, but I'm suspecting that the source formatting was done in a different incompatible font before it was imported into the document. Not sure how or why this would impact the links in the TOC render them dead. Any ideas? 

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    Jeff_Coatsworth
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    Jeff_CoatsworthCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    November 10, 2020

    Couldn't you just do the traditional "unavailable fonts" method to have FM pick the font to sub in for the unavailable one?

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    Lord_MaloneAuthor
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    November 10, 2020

    Hi Jeff, what's the traditional "unavailable fonts" method? Sorry, but I'm working remotely and currently not sitting behind a machine that has FM installed on it (iMac). I appreciate your help. 

    LinSims
    Community Expert
    LinSimsCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    November 10, 2020

    Edit > Preferences > deselect "Remember Missing Font Names". 

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      Lord_MaloneAuthor
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      November 10, 2020

      I really need to proofread before I hit the "post" button. It should read: My team is currently using FM 2019 and we're working on finalizing a product for a customer this week. The problem is that there are five sections/chapters in the Table of Contents (TOC) that are not linking to the corresponding page of the document. In the Error Report it states "Could not open section XXX because it uses unavailable fonts". The entire document is written in ariel font by default, but I'm suspecting that the source formatting was done in a different incompatible font before it was imported into the document. Not sure how or why this would impact the links in the TOC and render them dead. Any ideas?

      LinSims
      Community Expert
      LinSimsCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      November 10, 2020
      1. Type Esc vpf (in sequence, do not hold the Escape key down) to open the Fonts pod/panel (also View > Pods/Panels > Fonts). The Fonts pod/panel (depending on version of FM) is displayed with the Fonts tab showing by default.
      2. Select any font that isn't Arial from the list, then click the Replace Font tab.
      3. Select Arial from the Replace with drop-down.
      4. Click Apply.
      5. Repeat for each font you don't want.
      6. Save the file, then import page layouts, tables, paragraph and character tags, and possibly your reference pages from the updated file to the other files with the issue.

       

      DO NOT REPLACE any special font you use for glyphs not contained in Arial (Segoe UI is a favorite for glyphs not available in other fonts), 

       

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