Re: Font substitution--SUMMARY (One FrameScript solution)

[Jay Smith <jay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

USING FRAMESCRIPT TO SOLVE ONE '"INVISIBLE" FONT USAGE' PROBLEM:

Due to my #$*^& tendencies to be too picky, we use "font versioning" for
our on-demand books.  For example, adjusting metrics & kerning or
cleaning up a problem character.  The result is that instead of using
(these are bogus names) "Times" in a book, we use "Times_1" and then
that changes to "Times_2", etc., etc.  Each font version is locked once
it has been used.  It is a bit of a shell game.  "Times" is always the
most current version. However, a book only uses "Times_1" (or "Times_4"
or whatever).  We make changes in "Times" and then copy it to "Time_X"
(where X is a number).  NOTE THAT THIS REQUIRES FONT EDITING SOFTWARE TO
ALSO CHANGE THE INTERNAL NAMING AND NUMBERING OF THE FONT. ALSO SOME
COPYRIGHT ISSUES HAVE TO BE CONSIDERED IF YOU ARE NOT THE CREATOR OF THE
FONT.

"Times_2" might then used in the first edition of a book.  By the time
the next edition of that book is issued, we are probably up to using
"Times_5".  We thus have to change ALL INSTANCES of "Times_2" to be
"Times_5" in the Frame files for that book.

We developed a FRAMESCRIPT, with the assistance of Frank Elmore of
Framescript, to do this very easily.  This method will change EVERYTHING
except certain Reference Page instances, etc.  

This same script could be used to solve the very common problem that
Chris describes below.  The intent is the same -- change all occurrences
of Arial to Helvetica, or whatever.

I will be happy to share a copy of this script with anybody that would
like it.  It may take a couple of days before I get around to emailing
them out, thus be patient.

Note that to use it, you need to obtain FrameScript from :
     http://www.frametools.com/

Jay


Joel Dippold said that Chris Despopoulos said....
 
"INVISIBLE" FONT USAGE 
> One common problem I recall from the Old FrameMaker days
> (when I worked for Frame Technology) was that you could copy
> and paste a table from a document that uses fonts or
> languages your target machine doesn't support.   So you go
> ahead and change all the pgf formats in the table, and even
> save the changes to the table format catalog and the pgf
> format catalog.  But you still get the unsupported
> font/language message.
 
> The reason is that Maker stores an actual table for each
> table format.  Each table format includes the pgf formatting
> of each cell...  But somehow, when you change the pgf
> formatting for a table format and update the table format,
> you don't wipe out the old one, you just create a new one.
> So the unwanted font/language lingers.  A bug?  Mayber...
> it seems sloppy at best.  And the unfortunate thing is,
> there's no U/I to get rid of these fonts/languages.  Even
> turning off "Remember Missing Font Names", opening, then
> saving won't do it.

> There is a fix.  Anyway, whether this is your problem or
> not, you stand to gain by doing the following:

> Save the document to MIF, then search for the font.  If it's
> in a table, then the above describes your problem.  If not,
> then annalyze what you have...  You should find a reasonable
> way to wipe out any reference to that font - even if you
> have to do it in MIF.

> At Frame Technologies (and later, Adobe) we propegated this
> problem often enough to warrant creating tools to eradicate
> it.  If this is a nonce - only problem for you, then you
> probably just need to muck through the MIF.  If it happens
> alot, you should try developing either a MIF script, a
> FrameScript, or an FDK client to manage this issue.
> 
>Chris Despopoulos 
>mailto:cud@arrakis.es

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