RE: finding unavailable fonts

[Dick Gaskill <dgaskill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adding to Larry's solution, get Homesite 5 (www.macromedia.com), create a
project (similar to an FM book file), load all the MIFs into it and do a
global search and replace/destroy on all the MIFs at once.  Very fast.

Works great for me.

Dick Gaskill

-----Original Message-----
From: larry.kollar@arrisi.com [mailto:larry.kollar@arrisi.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 12:53 PM
To: Phyllis Rowland
Cc: framers@FrameUsers.com; framers@omsys.com
Subject: Re: finding unavailable fonts


Phyllis Rowland wrote:

> I have trouble with some files not wanting to open. The message says 
they
> use unavailable fonts, but I've checked every dot and squiggle and can't
> find them.  ...
> The files do open, converting the  "unavailable fonts."  I've gone over
> them, word by word, and can find no unavailable font in use.  I've gone 
to
> paragraph/catalog and deleted anything I'm not using, and I've also
> imported the format from other files that are okay.

Unavailable fonts like to hide away on reference pages,
master pages, and (especially) in table definitions.

One way to fix this is to save the file as MIF, load the
file into a text editor, and do the search-and-destroy
routine. That gets rather tedious when multiplied by 20
or 30 files in a book.

Another way, not recommended unless you know it isn't
going to bite you, is to turn off "Remember Missing Font
Names" in the preferences then load & save each file.
Drastic, but effective.

One of these days, I'll try writing an AppleScript to
do the search-and-destroy routine....

--
Larry Kollar, Senior Technical Writer, ARRIS
"Content creators are the engine that drives
value in the information life cycle."
    -- Barry Schaeffer, on XML-Doc
 

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