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Anonymous
June 10, 2009
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How do you find a font in a document?

  • June 10, 2009
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I am using Framemaker 8 on Windows XP and have an old document that gives the following error when I open it:

The "Times" Font is not available.
  "Times New Roman" will be used in this session.

I have tried everything I can think of to find a place in the document that is still using the old "Times" font to change it. I have gone through the paragraph catalog looking at each definition as well as the font catalog. I have found each paragraph tag that is used in the document and did an "update all" to make sure there wasn't one that was holding an old override. I went through the master pages too.

Any ideas on how to search for the culprit?

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    Correct answer Arnis Gubins

    Fonts can be hiding in some unusal places. They can be found in the Table Catalog definitions (you can only see this in MIF - FM stores the font information for the first row of the header and table in the defintion), on Master and Reference pages, or as empty TextLine entries (i.e. someone clicked with somewhere with the graphics TextTool and then didn't enter anything - FM still marks this in the layout with the formatting attributes at that time).

    The easiest way to get rid of this is to turn off the Preference setting to "Remember Missing Font Names". Then open and save the file, re-enable the option and then re-open the file.

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    Arnis Gubins
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    Inspiring
    June 10, 2009

    Fonts can be hiding in some unusal places. They can be found in the Table Catalog definitions (you can only see this in MIF - FM stores the font information for the first row of the header and table in the defintion), on Master and Reference pages, or as empty TextLine entries (i.e. someone clicked with somewhere with the graphics TextTool and then didn't enter anything - FM still marks this in the layout with the formatting attributes at that time).

    The easiest way to get rid of this is to turn off the Preference setting to "Remember Missing Font Names". Then open and save the file, re-enable the option and then re-open the file.

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    Anonymous
    June 10, 2009

    Thanks! That fixed the problem.

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