Re: Missing Fonts Message - Just Don't Understand

[lsmalley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Lester C. Smalley)]

Eric -

the two most likely places for the 'unused' fonts to stay defined in a 
document are: in the paragraph formats used for tables, which might not
appear in the paragraph catalog; or on the Reference and Master pages,
especially for the labels on the reference pages, or header/footer styles
not saved in the catalogs.

Try inserting a sample table of every defined style in a document, and
then checking the cells for the fonts used.

And switch to the Master pages, and Reference pages in turn, and search
for the fonts (via the Find/Change -> find character formats feature).

This should get you the info you want of where these are used. To clean 
the unwanted fonts out completely, you will need to re-tag everything to
use only the desired fonts.

The labels, headers and footers are straight-forward to fix.  The tables
are a bit more difficult.

You will need to DELETE the table styles from the documement, and recreate
them. Must simpler if you have inserted a sample of each in the file first.

When you create a table style (the _very first time_ a format is stored in
the table catalog), FM also records the paragraph tags and their definitions
used in the cells.  SO, if the fonts is 'saved' in one of these definitions,
and it is not in the catalog, you don't have an easy way to update those
tags to use your fonts.

-- Lester
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| From: "Eric Thomas" <erict@installshield.com>
| To: framers@FrameUsers.com
| Subject: Missing Fonts Message - Just Don't Understand
| Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 12:58:03 -0500
| 
| I know this topic has been brought up again and again, but I'm going to
| bring it up one more time.  The templates we use were created on my computer
| (Windows NT 4), which has a lot of non-standard fonts.  However, the
| templates only use 3 fonts in all of the formats: Courier New, Futura
| Medium, and Garammond.  When other writers open up these templates, they get
| the infamous missing fonts message, along with a FrameMaker Console message
| about not having a couple of Times-based fonts (Times-Roman and Times Bold,
| I think).  Regardless, these fonts just aren't used.  FrameMaker wants to
| substitute Times New Roman for them, but I just want to know where they are
| in the doc.
| 
| I've done searches for character formats, but nothing turns up.  I've looked
| at the MIF, and see that these fonts are referenced, but I cannot figure out
| where. How do you go about tracking down phantom fonts?  Though I don't
| think the message is pointing to anything we're actually using, I just want
| to be rid of it once and for all.  Can anyone suggest how to handle this?
| Am I just missing something obvious, or should I not even care?
| 
| Thanks.
| -Eric

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