The positive side of my problem is that I'm getting some really good info. Your input, Fred, is illuminating and explains a previously inexplicable behavior of Word I've noticed on occasion.
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Fred Ridder <docu...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Cal Callahan wrote: > > > Hmmm. Thanks, Mike. I will definitely check out those possibilities, > especially > > since, whenever I print fron FM (or try to print to pdF), I get a notice > that > > "Your font information has changed." The file still prints fine from FM, > but > > maybe that's a clue to one of the situations you mention. > > This message has nothing to do with the problem you describe. You will get > this message whenever you change to a different printer driver because > FrameMaker relies on the Windows printer driver to provide it with the "font > metrics"--the precise dimensions of each glyph in your document. In all > versions of FrameMaker from 8.0 onward, the default printer driver is the > "Adobe PDF" virtual printer, on the valid assumption that most users will > want to produce a PDF file as their primary deliverable output. If you print > a hard copy directly (rather than producing a PDF and printing *that* file), > you will necessarily change to a different printer driver, and FrameMaker > will warn you that the font information has changed. > > I can hear you wondering why in the world a minor change in font metric > information matters to you. It matters because the subtle difference in > dimensions of individual glyphs can add up to enough of a difference to make > certain lines of text to break one word earlier or later, or to cause a line > break inside a table. The change in line breaks can potentially make the > paragraph a line longer (or shorter), and that can make the page breaks > change, and that can make the page count and the page numbers in the TOC and > index be wrong. > > FrameMaker is not alone in being affected this way. Most other word > processors (including MS Word) are affected in exactly the same way. The > difference is that other tools don't bother to warn you that anything > changed. Word has always been notorious for having instabilities in its > pagination, and at least some of that behavior is attributable to printer > driver changes. > > -Fred Ridder >
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