Re: A novel: "FONTS irritation"

[Dan Emory <danemory@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This disappearance of postscript fonts on NT platforms can occur when the
currently selected printer is a non-postscript type. Selecting a "real"
postscript printer before FrameMaker documents that use postscript fonts are
opened will usually prevent the behavior you describe. I have a client who
is experiencing this problem. If anyone knows of a way to prevent it from
happening when a non-postscript printer is selected, I'd appreciate knowing
about it.
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At 09:34 AM 5/19/99 -0700, Frederick Geers wrote:
>Regarding fonts & flows with FM+SGML, I had the weirdest problem
>yesterday that I hope someone can help me to understand. Forgive the
>long diatribemail.
>I believe it's a Micro$oft system-level problem with the PC on which the
>annoyance occurred, although I expect it's something to do with Adobe's
>Postscript fonts as well, because the problem started with FM+SGML's
>"Fonts on your system have changed" warnings.
>I was working on a Win95 system with FM+SGML 5.5.2 (having not yet
>upgraded to version 5.5.6p145).
>I opened up a FM+SGML file (on which I'd been working earlier in the
>day), getting the warning about fonts having changed. I accepted the
>warning, thinking (doh!) that the problem would have a remedy that would
>be obvious. 
>The fonts that had changed were Times 11 pt. and Courier 9 pt.;
>onscreen, Times had become an atrociously kerned mess, appearing bunched
>up as if characters were on top of each other; Courier became an 18 pt.
>misery that was outside the flow of the document, appearing like lines
>going through the margin flow and on forever in a virtual page. Very
>weird. 
>And, weirder, the document printed perfectly. The annoyance was only
>onscreen. 
>My IS crew was baffled. At least we were able to re-install fonts and
>FM+SGML is doing the right thing again. No other applications had the
>same problem. 
>A fellow-worker is having the same problem today. Not me. He's using
>5.5.6p145 version on a Win98 machine.
>I hope we're not needing to take a drug test for safety's sake when
>working on FM+SGML files. 
>No one admits to having been on these machines, and no viruses were
>detectable by McAfee's VShield software on the machines.
>I know I can't live happily ever after; I just want get to work. 
>Anyone had this same hallucination? It's irritating.
>
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