Font Arial CE is lost after changing to FM9.0

[Grete68]

After updating FramMaker form 7.0 to 9.0 I had to change a polish manual, but the message "Can't find the font Arial CE" (in principal) occurs. In all other programs I can find and use Arial CE. Can pls. somebody tell me how to solve this problem?

[MichaelKazlow]

You need to use a new workflow. FrameMaker 9 uses unicode. The CE characters are in the version of Arial that came with the computer. The old Arial CE probably won't work since the characters are in the wrong location for unicode based fonts. Special work arounds were incorporated for dealing with the symbol font, but that wasn't extended to CE fonts. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable can step in with details and how to use the new unicode font encodings.

[Be.eM]

Grete68 wrote:

After updating FramMaker form 7.0 to 9.0 I had to change a polish manual, but the message "Can't find the font Arial CE" (in principal) occurs. In all other programs I can find and use Arial CE. Can pls. somebody tell me how to solve this problem?

Yes, FM 9 uses unicode, as Michael wrote. But this alone does not explain why FrameMaker 9 completely ignores any registry-based font mappings. I'm not sure if I can call this a "bug", but it's definitely a flaw.

The only way to get around this problem: Open these documents in FrameMaker 8, change your paragraph formats globally from "Arial CE" (which most likely is a virtual font, mapped to Arial) to "Arial", save, and re-open in FM9. FrameMaker 8 also uses unicode, but still understands the "old" registry mappings to virtual fonts, and is able to re-encode text accordingly. FM9 hast lost this ability. I don't know of any way solving this without FM8.

Bernd