Re: Puzzler

["Thomas Michanek" <thomas.michanek@xxxxxxxxx>]

> No ATM, just the Win2000 font manager. I was told that it eliminated
> the need for the basic ATM. None of us have it.

That's right, you don't need ATM on Windows 2000 unless you're using
so-called Multiple Master fonts (which you aren't :-)

> However, not all of the fonts are Type 1. My text fonts, Officina and
> Courier are Type 1. The Wingdings and Monotype Sorts are True Type. The
> Symbol font is listed as "Open Type, Digitally Signed, True Type
Outlines".

You can have any mix of Type 1, TrueType and OpenType fonts, as long as
you don't have the same font in more than one format (e.g. T1 *and* TT).
To quote Dov Isaacs at Adobe:
"There is a general rule that you should never have both a Type 1 and a
 TrueType version of the same font. There is one exception. You can have a
 Type 1 and a TrueType version of Symbol. In fact, you MUST have the
TrueType
 version under Windows for the FrameMaker equation function to work
correctly."
(I don't know how this applies to an OpenType version of Symbol)

> I also supervised them while they deleted their existing fonts and
installed
> the package from my machine.

I hope you didn't delete all existing fonts! To quote Dov Isaacs again:
"Note that TrueType certain fonts are really "secret sauce" aspects of
Windows.
 This includes Arial, Times New Roman, MS Sans, Microsoft Sans (Windows 2000
 only), Marlett (a hidden font used to draw the "hardware" on each
"window"),
 Courier New, Tahoma, etc. As much as some of you have a "thing" about
TrueType
 fonts, don't delete any of these fonts."

> I will check which fonts are coming up unavailable. Do I check the Frame
> console? I don't believe the error message is explicit about which fonts
are
> being substituted. Yes?

Yes, you check the console window. The messages specify the unavailable
font and the substitute font.


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Thomas Michanek, FrameMaker/UNIX/MIF expert
Technical Writer, Uppsala, Sweden
mailto:Thomas.Michanek@telia.com
http://go.to/framers/
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