Hi Nancy, I had to change all fonts last week. I also noticed that the letters were too densely packed. However, everything was fine, after I closed the file and opened it again. I did not re-import formats or updated formats.
If this would not help in your case, I could imagine that also a MIF wash might have helped. Best regards Winfried > -----Original Message----- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers- > bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Nancy Allison > Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 5:40 PM > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: Awful Letter Spacing After Replacing a Font > > Hi, all. > > I've just discovered the nifty Fonts pod in FrameMaker 10 (we jumped from > 7.1 to 10). Just in time, too, since we've been told to change the body text > from Times New Roman to Arial. > > I'm using FM 10 in a Windows 7 environment. > > I replaced all instances of Times New Roman in a chapter with Arial. The > change was instantaneous and the paragraph designer listed Arial as the > default font for each affected tag. Wowee! I see that I can also do this > replacement across ALL open book files. So I can change Times to Arial in the > blink of an eye, across the entire book. > > However, the letter spacing in the replaced text is awful. > > To fix it, each paragraph tag that has a changed font has to be reapplied. > I've > used the Global Update within a single file for this, but it still has to be > done > tag by tag, file by file, doesn't it?. This will be a tedious process for a > 100-page > document distributed across 7 files. > > Is there a way to do this faster? Within FrameMaker's native capabilities, if > possible . . . > > Thanks. > > --Nancy