Re: Ghost of missing fonts mystery...tables

[Thomas Neuburger <thomasn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Deborah,

Try this -- go into one of the files that seems to have the bad font and 
create new tables, one per defined table style. Accept the defaults. Then 
look at these tables to see if any of the paragraphs contain the font(s) in 
question.

Frame keeps a hidden table in each document, one per table tag, that it 
uses as a template when creating tables from scratch. These table 
definitions include three kinds of paragraph tag (for title, cells, 
headings), along with font info. Sometimes these fonts aren't present on 
the current system, however, and a search of the doc won't find the hidden 
table (unless you search the MIF file).

This hidden table thing is quite a handy feature, since you can modify the 
defaults (getting rid of CellBody for your own paragraph tags, for example, 
or standardizing the number of rows and columns). But it does lead to this 
problem with fonts if you don't know about it.

Now the fix. To modify these hidden table templates using the GIU (as 
opposed to MIF):

1. From the Table menu, create a new table for a given tag.

2. In the table, change size (number of rows and columns) and also make 
whatever paragraph tags assignments you want -- i.e., for cells, headings, 
and titles.

3. Make sure you don't have overrides in the paragraph tags used in the 
table -- no font or paragraph overrides of any kind. You should have three 
clean tags -- one for title, one for all headings, and one for all cells.

4. In the Table Designer, make other changes as you wish.

5. Click Update All. This updates the table tag AND the hidden template 
table in the doc.

6. Repeat for all defined table tags you wish to modify.

7. For a book file, import table styles from the modified doc across the 
whole book. The new definitions AND the hidden template tables overwrite 
the old ones of the same name.


This info and procedure may not solve the problem, but it's one more place 
to check. And the existence of the table template is good to know about, IMO.

Hope this helps,

Tom Neuburger
www.twelfthnight.com



Deborah Snavely wrote:

>Hello, Framers,
>
>I've just finished cleaning out every instance of missing fonts in a
>suite of files and book file as part of moving legacy doc into new
>template. (And believe me, I know how to do that so as to strip out the
>doggone old stuff.)
>And I've got a mystery on my hands:
>
>*None of the files in the book reports any missing fonts upon opening.
>*The book updates successfully with only the book file open.
>*The book file itself is new (re-created from a chapter file).
>
>Yet when I update the book, for 7 of the 40-odd files in the book, Frame
>(a) opens console windows that report the former fonts missing from
>these files...and (b) CLEANS OUT the missing fonts reported for those 7
>files from the console windows by the time it completes the book update.
>
>I have saved both the book file and one of the weird files to MIF,
>opened them and examined the MIF, and found *no* instances of the
>missing font names anywhere in either file.
>
>Suggestions?


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