Font error in FM6 Character Sets manual

["Thomas Michanek" <thomas.michanek@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dingbats missing in Character Sets manual in FM 6
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Background: The FrameMaker distribution includes a number of 
"Online Manuals" that are not delivered in print. In FM 5.x, these
were available directly from the main online help screen, but in
FM 6 they are only delivered as separate re-designed PDF files.
They are intended for print-out, not for online reading.

I have just reviewed the Character Sets online manual for FM 6,
which is meant to display all characters in the FrameMaker
character set for 3 different font types: normal, Symbol (greek)
and [Zapf] Dingbats (special symbols).

As others already have reported, the manual fails to show the
Dingbat characters. The Dingbat column is in fact a duplicate of
the Symbol column! The Font information for the PDF file reveals
that the Zapf Dingbats font isn't present at all in the file...
Naturally, the 5.5 version of this manual is perfectly OK.

Let me venture a guess: the person converting this FM document
to PDF opened it on a PC whose current printer in FM was set to a
non-PostScript printer instance, thus substituting the Type 1
Zapf Dingbats font with the Symbol font. After having distilled
the PDF, noone bothered to check the resulting PDF file.

Just as the MIF Reference Manual, this manual should not have been
allowed to enter the production phase. It's an embarrassment for
"Quality Assurance" at Adobe.

 
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Thomas Michanek, [Michagon], Linkoping, Sweden
       FrameMaker/UNIX/MIF/scripting expert
EMAIL: mailto:Thomas.Michanek@telia.com
WWW:   http://go.to/framers , or go directly to:
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