ITC Zapf Dingbats is NOT a font provided by either Microsoft as part of Windows or by Adobe as part of FrameMaker, Acrobat, or any other current product. You need to license it separately.
- Dov > -----Original Message----- > From: J. Paul Kent > Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 4:29 AM > To: Framers > Subject: Oops! Look ma, no fonts! > > I just noticed that my new PC doesn't have the Zapf Dingbats > font I've been using to show arrows in my documents. These > guides use an arrow in the text to show nested menu > selections like "Tools->Language->Set Language." I guess I'm > not committed for life to the arrows, but they've worked > nicely to date, the client seems to like them, and I like them. > > I can think of any number of potential work-arounds, but I'll > bet someone has thought of this before. > > My first thought was to look at my Microtype Shortcuts > document for which key strokes to use to get a slightly > different arrow in a font that IS installed, but that > revealed two new problems. First, I haven't installed the > MicroType (is it a plug-in, I forget) Shortcuts on this new machine. > Second (looking at my old machine that does have it > installed), it looks like the Shortcuts document assumes a > "Dingbats" font that also isn't installed on this new machine. > > So, new machine is running XP Media Center Edition, whereas > old machine is running XP Pro. Is this where the font issue > stems from? > This machine is new enough that I can get the Vista upgrade > for free, and it has the horsepower to run it well, so I need > to take an eventual upgrade into account when I consider the > optimum solution. That is, if I'm going to be installing new > fonts that work on XP and then installing new fonts again > that work on Vista, maybe I should upgrade first (not really > ready to do that yet unless I have to). > > Thanks in advance, > > J. Paul Kent > 206-383-0539 > 206-508-1144