You can easily avoid this by using PureText. It removes all formatting from the original text.
Regards, Shmuel Wolfson 052-763-7133 Diane Schaefer wrote: > Hi Isabelle, > > I recently made an amazing discovery regarding elusive, unavailable > fonts: > > If you copy and paste non-Frame, non-HTML information into your > (unstructured, 7.2) Frame document, the information is copied into a > text frame. In my documents, and perhaps in yours, the font specified is > Times New Roman, which isn't in my font repertoire. Hence the > unavailable fonts. > > Of course we are supposed to import text from Word and the like, but > sometimes I want to take a shortcut and paste in Word snippets to > rewrite. More heinous, now that my Outlook has been updated to 2007, I > find that text snippets from HTML (or even RTF) emails, which I often > would copy and use verbatim, can no longer be pasted directly into > Frame, but cause the same problem. > > The work around for the text snippets, to avoid those awful unavailable > font popups, is to open an HTML editor such as Dreamweaver, paste to an > HTML file, deselect and reselect the text, copy and paste into Frame. (I > used to used Outlook 2003 to do this sometimes, but even this pleasure > is now denied me.) > > The only work-around I've found to get rid of these unavailable fonts is > to use the Remember Missing Font Names option under > File>Preferences>General. You may have to save, close, reselect or > deselect, then perform the procedure again a few times before the > problem is solved. > > HTH, > Diane > > Diane Schaefer > Senior Technical Writer > Sandvine Technologies Ltd. > dschaefer at sandvine.com > tel. 972-2-540-090, ext. 125 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > --------- > Hi Framers, > > I'm sure this is a very novice question, but I need some help. > > I'm running Windows XP (SP2), using unstructured FrameMaker 7.2. > > Even though I've checked all the paragraph and character tags for stray > fonts and have generated a list of fonts for each file, I get a > "Document named xxx uses unavailable fonts..." message. The console > displays a font that I know is nowhere in my documents, so how do I get > rid of this pop-up? The more important issue is that because the > documents are reformated on opening because of substitution of fonts, I > get unresolved cross-references alerts on good refs every time I reopen > saved files. > > .*********************** > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as sbw at actcom.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sbw%40actcom.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > >