FM 2020 wont start waiting for a printer connection

[zaria2]

FM 2020 won't start because it can't find a printer attached to my machine.

Error message:

There are no fonts available on printer. Cannot start Framemaker.

[Winfried Reng]

Hi,

I had not encountered your issue yet. Therefore I guess.

Which printers do you have installed? What is the default printer?

Can you check this thread? Does it help?

https://community.adobe.com/t5/framemaker-discussions/no-fonts-available-cannot-start-framemaker/m-p...

Best regards

Winfried

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

I'd check to see if the Adobe PDF printer instance exists and is set as the default Windows printer before firing up FM. Also, is your FM2020 all patched up?

[Bob_Niland]

And if the "Adobe PDF" printer instance has been lost, while working on restoring it, you can also make the default printer either of:
Microsoft Print to PDF
MS Postscript

If the Adobe PDF driver instance has been lost, I'd have to wonder if the built-in Distiller code is also, which would make the Print-to-PDF, Save-as-PDF and possibly Publish-to-PDF unavailable as well, not to mention Print-to-Ps&Distill.