Hi Michael, WGL Assistant works great but it also creates font instances labelled as FONTNAME CYR, FONTNAME Greek, etc. Windows XP created the ones for Arial and Times New Roman to help non-Unicode compliant apps, like Framemaker, display and print documents using the non-Latin based glyphs in the font sets.
Berny Gagné Lead Technical Writer Husky Injection Molding Systems Bolton, Ontario, Canada -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stuart Rogers Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 10:35 AM To: Michael Zaichenko Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: FONT CONUNDRUM Michael Zaichenko wrote: > Hello Framers, > I once already posted this question but never got any sensible answer. > Posting it again in hopes someone actually came across a solution to > this conundrum. > XP SP2, FM 7.1 non-structured. > Unicode fonts like arial, times new roman and courier do not display > any other map than Latin. Meaning Arial is one font on a system. In > FrameMaker it appears as Arial CYR, Arial Baltic, Arial Greek, Arial > TUR, etc. Same for the rest of the mentioned fonts. In theory when one > changes it to the needed version the font picks up the needed map and > displays say Greek or Baltic characters. When I was on Win2000 this > was not an issue - in XP I can't get a stable result. I have about 16 > different machines and half of them have this problem - others don't. > All have installations of the same XP system and SP2. Problem seems to > stem from Windows itself as I tried practically everything to fix it > and be able to use unicode fonts without creating a whole bunch of > fonts to replace them. But where it Windows it is I don't know. > Any thoughts? > Michael > P.S. I'm fighting this one for over a year and couldn't come up with > anything sensible. Help me out of this misery please.... > You may find a solution with WGL Assistant: http://wgl.typ.pl/ HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com "Developers explain How the Product Works. Technical writers explain How to Work the Product." Get Firefox! http://tinyurl.com/8q9c5 _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
