how to find the location of a particular font in the framemaker book?

[mindevil]

Hi All,

please help me in finding the location of a particular type of font in the framemaker book. I was using the following procedure to find out earlier:

Find > Character Format > (set the character format) > Search.

Now I am unable to locate a particular type of font using the mentioned procedure.

Please help me out.

Thanks in adnavce,

Mindevil

[Bob_Niland]

This assumes that the font instance being searched for is an override:

1. Click in some text in one of the book files.
   Edit > Find/Change
   [ Character Format ...]
   This pops up a Character Format dialog.
2. Assuming you are on Windows:
   [Ctrl]+[Shift]+[F8] to set everything to As-Is/blank.
   In Family:, select the font being sought. [Set]
3. Back in the Find dialog...
   Look in: <*> Book
   [Find]

If the font instance is part of a Paragraph Format or Character Format, you can search by Para Tag name or Char Tag name (which is yet another reason why overrides are a problem).

Or you can save out all the book files as MIF and search with a plaintext editor, but that requires a nominal knowledge of MIF.

I might add that steps 1-3 above are covered in FM7.1 Help (and presumably the printed manual back then), but are absent for FM9, and I'm guessing that they never returned in later versions either.

[mindevil]

Thanks Erro7103 for the detailed process. Is there any process to find out the texts included in an image without uploading in the internet (whatthefont.com, findmyfont.com etc.)?

Regards

[Bob_Niland]

> ... find out the texts included in an image ...

Do you mean:

• Frame graphic text overlaid, in FM, on top of the image
• Frame text in Text Frames overlaid on the image
• Text embedded in the image, such as an import of EPS, PDF or possibly SVG
• Raster data in an imported image that was text once upon a time

[Arnis Gubins]

With more recent versions of FrameMaker, simply use the Font pod to locate (and to also replace) fonts.

[mindevil]

Thanks Arnis,

I am using FrameMaker 12, but I am unable to locate the Font Pod option. Please guide me through.

Regards

[Arnis Gubins]

View > Pods > Fonts...

Adobe FrameMaker 12 * Fonts

[mindevil]

Thanks Arnis, it worked!