Word to Frame Conversions, font issues

Report · Feb 01, 2010

Hi everyone,

I am troubleshooting yet another document I have inheritated which does not build properly. This book was a conversion from Word to FrameMaker (V8). When an update is done, there are numerous messages that say it could not open due to unavailable fonts. Now, I have see this before in some conversions and it has been with the bolding or courier that engineers apply in the document and no application of character formats are done in the Frame file.

Examples of some fonts it is looking for is MS Shell Dlg, Courier-Bold Bold, Univers-CondenseBold. I think these are in the screen and code output examples where lines are in bold/courier font, etc.

I have reapplied the template that was created but does not clear it up. Do I need to look at every bolded item in this and apply a character format? Is there some way to find where these are?

Thanks!

Report · Feb 01, 2010

Okay, read the instructions in Finding "invisible" art posting here. Found the Times-Roman tags and turned off the remember missing fonts checkbox and saved the file. It seems to have fixed the problem.

Report · Feb 01, 2010

Two more tips, although it sounds as if you've fixed the immediate problem:

Unless there's a compelling reason not to, setting the Adobe PDF printer as the system default controls most font issues. You can do it at the system level or with a SetPrint script from http://www.sundorne.com/FrameMaker/Freeware/setPrint.htm
If you're importing content from Word, make sure that you save the FM file as MIF, open the MIF and save that as .fm. This parses the files and removes hidden Word characters that will cause problems in Frame.