(Another) Frame bug not fixed in 6.0 -- Tables: the Phantom Font Menace

["Stevens, Ananda" <Ananda.Stevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was really hoping this one had been fixed, but I guess 
I should've known better...<sigh>

Table definitions still include paragraph font format 
re-definitions. Yep, for every table you define, Frame 
includes a font format definition for every paragraph 
format you use in the table. 

And when you change the font you use for CellHeading or 
CellBody, for example, the para format definition is NOT 
changed in your tables' format definition. 

More oddly, the tables DO use the correct font. But Frame 
still wants to look for those old, obsolete fonts every 
time you open your file. 

So if you remove the fonts from your machine, you get the
Frame "missing fonts" message.

AND... when you search for instances of the fonts Frame 
can't find, you come up empty, because the search doesn't 
look in those format re-definitions. 

WORSE, the ***ONLY*** way to get rid of the phantom fonts 
is by editing the MIF file.  (Thomas Neuburger confirmed
this the last time I had the problem.) And it isn't a 
simple edit, either; every table that uses the CellHeading 
format includes the ~28 lines of PgfFont re-definition.

So today I'm editing MIF files again.... ugh. 

--Ananda Stevens
Technical Publications Specialist, Wind River
ananda.stevens@windriver.com


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