Richard suggests just turning off the "Remember missing font names". In the past, I have had unavailable fonts turn up in legacy documents where that trick did not work.
If the font is in an default paragraph format of an unused table type, save the file as .mif and search on the font name. You can either change it there, or simply remove the table type definition from the mif. If you save as .mif and the font does not show up, chances are it is in an imported graphic. Some types seem to carry font information in their metadata, even though the text is not separately selectable. The fast-and-dirty workaround (because of course this always turns up when you are trying to meet a deadline) is to take a screen capture of the graphic and replace the offender. (Captures from PDF usually look better than captures from the FM itself, if you have a decent PDF around.) Incidentally, I am guessing you want to run this check before opening the file because you have a script that batch processes the files. (We do, too.) If there is a way to do this, the guys that maintain our batch scripts haven't lit on it; the scripts exit with an informative error instead. And that is why I have gotten good at hunting these things down. :-) Regards- Sam. -----Original Message----- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Combs, Richard Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 9:15 AM To: Kristen Abbott; framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Unavailable fonts Kristen Abbott wrote: > I'm sure someone has posted a response to this question, but > unfortunately the archive isn't searchable. (Hint...) You can search the archives using Google. Enter "search string site:lists.frameusers.com" (sans quotes). > Anyway, I'd like to know of a way to remove and replace all the > unavailable fonts in a FM file *before* I open it and see the "There are > unavailable fonts" message. My only options at that point are to click > OK, in which case it does the replacements, or Cancel, in which case it > doesn't open the file. Even if I let it do the replacements, the FM > Console window shows that it replaced FontX with FontY. How can I get > rid of FontX ahead of time? You want to magically modify the file without opening it? No can do. :-) You can get rid of FontX with the file open by finding where it's hiding. The archives have lots of detailed info on that, but some of the "popular" hiding spots for fonts are the reference pages and the pgf tags used in the table format defaults. But before spending lots of time searching, see below. > Even though I have changed all the Para tags to use only available > fonts, the message appears every time I open the file, regardless. > Annoying. If you're certain you want to banish FontX forever, and permanently replacing it with FontY is OK, go to File > Preferences > General and turn off Remember Missing Font Names. The next time you open the file with FontX, FM will display a slightly different unavailable fonts dialog asking you if it's OK to permanently replace FontX with FontY. If you click OK, FontX is gone for good. If this sounds appealing, but you'd rather replace FontX with FontZ, that can be done by modifying the unknown to known fonts section of the maker.ini file. The Customizing FrameMaker manual has info on doing that. HTH! Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 ------ rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-903-6372 ------ _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as samantha_lizak at mentor.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/samantha_lizak%40men tor.com Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.