You posting seems to reflect several small misconceptions about how FrameMaker 
works. Let me see if I can address them one at a time.

First, a single "unavailable fonts" message in one file can, in fact, also be 
the cause of subsequent "unresolved cross-references" messages in other files. 
When you open any file that contains cross-references, FrameMaker attempts to 
refresh all of those references by looking at each target location and grabbing 
the current text string and numbering properties (autonumbering and page 
numbering). If any of those cross-references point to locations that are in 
other files, FM has to silently open each of those files to refresh the 
references. But if a "target" file has an unavailable font condition, that 
error prevents FM from completing the "silent open" operation that is necessary 
to resolve the cross-reference. The result is an "unresolved cross-reference" 
message. But note that if the file with the unavailable font condition is 
already open when you open the file that refers to it, you will *not* get an 
"unresolved" message because FM doesn't need to do a silent open.

Second, FrameMaker *does* report which fonts are unavailable, but does not do 
it in the warning message itself. Instead, you have to look in the FrameMaker 
console window, which most of us are in the habit of ignoring or dismissing 
without bothering to read it.

Third, the unavailable font does not have to be applied to any content that 
appears in the body of the document to cause the warning message. It is enough 
for the font to be specified in the definition of some format that you don't 
actually use, and this font specification can be in any of your catalogs--a 
character format, a paragraph format, a cross-reference format, or a table 
format. Table formats are a particular problem because each format definition 
invisibly embeds the character and paragraph formatting for the table title, 
and for each cell in the heading row, the footing row, and the first body row 
of the table that was the prototype when the format was defined; you will never 
be able to find these using the FM GUI unless you create an instance of each 
table format that exists in your catalog. Unavailable fonts can also lurk on 
master pages and reference pages which are not examined when you do a "find 
font" operation (which only searches the context in the current view) or List 
of References operation (which only looks at body pages). They can even be 
hiding in certain types of graphic objects that contain font specifications 
(PDF, EPS, WMF, EMF).

Fourth, to get rid of an unavailable fonts condition you need to *UN-check* the 
"Remember Missing Font Names" preference. Remembering the names means that FM 
will do a *temporary* substitution of an available font for an unavailable one, 
but will retain the original, unavailable font specification in the version of 
the file that it saves. What you need is for FM to *forget* the names of the 
unavailable fonts and save the file with the substituted font specifications. 
So the procedure would be:
Open the offending file, dismissing the "unavailable fonts" warning.Examine the 
FrameMaker console to determine whether all of the substitutions FM has made 
are appropriate (e.g., no sans-serif font subbed for a serif, no text font 
subbed for a symbol or wingding font).Close the file.Turn OFF "Remember Missing 
Font Names".Open the file. Notice that the warning message has changed, and 
that FrameMaker now warns you that it will be permanently *replacing* the fonts 
rather than substituting for them. 
Examine the file to make sure it looks OK.Save the file. Many people neglect to 
do this because they haven't made any explicit edits or format changes, but the 
font change will not "take" and be carried forward unless the file is saved 
after you let FM make the replacement.Turn "Remember Missing Font Names" back 
ON. (It is normally a very good idea not to reformat a file from a colleague or 
client to match your own less complete font library.)This *should* take care of 
the problem unless the bad font name is embedded in a graphic.



Another approach that some users swear by is to save the offending file as MIF 
and then use a text editor to search for the names of the unavailable fonts, as 
reported in the FM console. After making the substitution with the font editor, 
the file is saved as MIF, then opened from FrameMaker and saved back to .fm 
file format. This approach still will not look inside graphics objects, but I 
have personally seen cases where the source .fm file contained a *completely* 
spurious font specification (for a Chinese font in my case) that was removed 
simply by passing it through the FM->MIF filter (i.e., the bad font was not 
findable in the the MIF file and was gone when the file was restored to .fm 
format).


-Fred Ridder


From: pascale.stephen...@upu.int
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Unavailable fonts message - incorrect?
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 10:17:25 +0000









Hello
 
I am using FrameMaker 9 on Windows 7. When I open a particular book, I get the 
classic ‘unavailable fonts’ error on many of the files (followed by ‘unresolved 
cross-reference’ errors, but for now I’m assuming the two are related). When
 my colleague opens the same book, he doesn’t get any errors. Fair enough, our 
font setup might be a little bit different.
 
FM doesn’t report which fonts are causing the problem in the message, so I took 
two files, one with the error and one without, and generated a list of fonts 
using Special > List Of > References. Both files contain exactly the same fonts
 so I can’t isolate it to any font in particular. Indeed, the fact one has a 
problem with one of the fonts and the other doesn’t makes me think the error 
itself may be incorrect.
 
Has anyone else experienced this or have any idea what I can do next? It seems 
to be one particular book causing the problem.
Checking the ‘Remember Missing Font Names’ option doesn’t stop the problem from 
re-occurring.
 
Thanks in advance.
 
Pascale




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