Re: Auto-activated fonts

[chawtrey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Charles Hawtrey)]

In reply to part of my query of 17 August Thomas Michanek wrote:

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> > I regularly receive the Console message "The font < Times, Regular,
> > Regular, Regular > has been auto-activated." and so on for all
> flavours
> > of Times, Helvetica, and for all the standard fonts we use.
>
> I can't answer all of your questions, but have you checked the maker.ini
>
> file and its documentation?:
>
> ; ATM Auto-activated Fonts
> ; ATM allows a font that is present on your system but not in an active
> ; working set to be "auto-activated".
> ; This option only has an effect if ATM 4.0 or greater is installed and
> ; enabled on your system.
> ; By default, Adobe FrameMaker will attempt ATM font auto-activation. An
> entry
> ; is written to the Frame console when a font is auto-activated.
> AtmFontAutoActivation=On
> =====================================
> ATM Deluxe 4.0 features
> AtmFontAutoActivation=On
> The AtmFontAutoActivation setting determines whether font sets in Adobe
> Type Manager Deluxe 4.0 will be automatically activated. This means that
>
> if you open a document that uses a font that is installed on your
> computer
> but is not in a font set that's currently active, the font set will be
> activated automatically. The otherwise inactive font is displayed and
> prints correctly, but it does not appear in font menus.

Thomas also wrote in another message:

> I don't have ATM myself, but I seem to remember that you can group
> your fonts into font sets, and activate these font sets independently.
> You should either turn off Autoactivation, or check which font sets
> are defined in your ATM setup, and make sure that the correct sets
> are activated. The FM message seems to indicate that your documents
> are using fonts that are installed by using ATM, but that do not
> belong to an activated font set. So, for whatever reason, your fonts
> are "deactivated" and you need to change that. How, I don't know...
>
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If anyone can help on the subject of multiple copies of fonts -- decried
by Dov in a post a little while back -- I, and others, would be grateful.

Charles


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