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Font headache
Title: Font headache
Unlike most DTP programs, FM uses
4 categories to describe a font : Family/Var/Weight/Angle.
Practically, it means an
incredible mess in naming and using fonts that look identically
structured in other programs.
Some homogenous font families are
split into variants: the 4 components of a family (i.e. Plain, Bold,
Italic, BoldItalic) are considered as different fonts. Others do not
recognize particular Weight/Angle combinations. Others are merged
across their separate suitcases as classified by ATM... And,
best of all, fonts with non-English descriptions (i.e. Gras instead of
Bold for French fonts), are all flattened to Plain. A MSWord file
written with such an unfortunate font becomes plain text when imported
into FrameMaker.
I know this is a general issue,
and it may be platform-related. Anyway, I'd be glad if someone could
recommend a reliable method, charter, book or homepage to help me
understand how fonts should be organized and named to work coherently
with FrameMaker.
(MacOS 9, FM 6.0, ATM DeLuxe, ATR
off - uncompatible. Some fonts custom-generated by
Fontographer).
Slobodan Despot
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