Re: Getting rid of unavailable fonts in FM 5.5.6 on Windows NT

[Thomas Neuburger <thomasn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I too have had this "phantom font" problem. My solution is to edit each 
occurrence out of the MIF file -- a tedious process. I'm sure some 
scripting solution would work, but you have to be careful, obviously. (If I 
were really adventurous, I'd create a custom WWP template with only one set 
of macros -- one designed to make this transformation, going from MIF to MIF.)

I've had some success using the GUI redefining the tags used in tables, but 
that's been unpredictable. In some vague circumstances, under some 
combination of galactic appearances, with the moon in some phases, GUI 
changes to table definitions and CellBody definitions "take" -- they change 
the underlying font defaults.

The long-term solution, for me, is to MIF-edit the offending tags (all of 
them), and then use the cleaned-out doc as a template. I'm not sure how to 
deal with the problem if it's constantly re-introduced via RTF. Maybe find 
the RTF code that creates the problem and fiddle with that?

Yes, I do think only some folks at the Adobe/Frame help desk are aware of 
this problem. And it's likely buried deep in the antediluvian portions of 
the Frame code.

Sorry -- this is the best I can offer.

Cheers,

Tom Neuburger


Thomas Michanek wrote:

>From: "Susan Dorey" <SusanDorey@Mortgage.com>
> > In a file based on that template I copied in some text from a RTF file as a
> > series of tables. That introduced the Times font, which I do not want. How
> > do I get rid of it easily in 12 tables on 26 pages? The MIF shows that the
> > font is lurking in the table paragraph tags, even though FM itself says the
> > font in use is Century Schoolbook (my choice); both the Format, Font menu
> > choice indicates that CS is the font and the paragraph catalog designer 
> says
> > that CS is the default font. I have tried globally changing the paragraph
> > tags, but that doesn't get rid of the Times font.
> > How can I get rid of Times without editing the MIF?
>
>In my experience, you cannot do it without editing MIF (or perhaps make
>an FDK client).
>For some reason, each table in FM seems to store the "default" paragraph
>tags used when the table was created, even though they aren't needed or
>used any longer. This is the most common reason for unavailable fonts
>that cannot be found by searching the document using FM's search.
>
>I consider this a bug that I have reported a long time ago to Adobe.
>Unfortunately, very few support people at Adobe has the FM knowledge
>necessary to understand this problem, so it's quite possible that the
>problem isn't known within the FM development team.

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