Italic character overrides not working, but all others are fine

[snair_drum]

Hi,

I have a frustrating problem with unstructured FrameMaker 10.

For my documents, I use a number of Font Catalogs created by my predecessor. All of them carry out their font overrides where indicated, except for the Italic one.

FM marks up that the font override is Italic but  doesn't actually change anything in the document.

Italic is configured as:

Family - As Is

Size - Unable to select As Is for some reason so is blank

Angle - Italic

Weight and Variation - Regular

Color - Black

All other options "turned off"

The only difference I can tell from this character override and others is that the others have a Font Family selected.

The same behaviour occurs no matter what document I'm working on.

If I create a new character override in the Designer - say, Italics, the same behaviour is found, hence my belief about the need for Font Family.

I am also unable to just override it with CTRL+I.

I note from various other questions that others have experienced similar problems, but no definitive resolution has been found. Here's hoping that I make it third time lucky!

Thanks for your help.

[snair_drum]

Sometimes it helps to mention your problem to someone outside your team!

Seems I don't have an italic variant to the font family I am using. Rather than purchase a new font family, I set my default printer to be PDF  - forcing FM to "fake" italics. It  works!

I'm going to leave this post here for others to reference in case they have the same issue.

[Bob_Niland]

> Seems I don't have an italic variant to the font family I am using.

Common issue, more frequently asked about as "what happened to my Oblique?"
(answer: what's your default printer? PCL by any chance?)

> ... I set my default printer to be PDF

This is less about PDF than that PDF drivers are PostScript drivers, and Ps inherently supports a number of font transforms, which Frame can invoke, but only if the print path is Ps or Ps-like (PDF).