Still, this is a known “feature” of Microsoft Windows. It always has been. The issue of fonts and PostScript printer instances have always been iffy with Microsoft.
> On Apr 10, 2019, at 13:55, Mike Wickham <i...@mikewickham.com> wrote: > > Rick, > > As far as I know, that warning message can't be turned off. It is FrameMaker > warning you that changing printer drivers may cause your document to > reformat. Most people think that changing the print driver just changes where > the document will print, but it does more than that. The characteristics of > the driver also determine how the document will display on screen. Usually, > this makes little difference, maybe not even a noticeable difference. But, > sometimes, as you have seen, it changes the word- or line-breaks and can > cause an extra line of text to appear in a paragraph, bump the last line of a > table to the next page, or force a graphic to the next column or page. This > can throw off the appearance of pages, rippling all the way forward. And if > you are preparing for a press printed book, it can, for example, cause the > need to print 17 pages, when the signature (the folded stack of pages that > will be sewn into a book) is only 16 pages. > > This is why it became best practice to use SetPrint to automatically set > AdobePDF as the default printer for FM when it loads. What you then see on > screen will always be exactly what you see in the PDF and, then, the PDF will > always be exactly what you see on _any_ printer or on _any_ other computer > screen. Then, of course, you would print the PDF, rather than the .fm file, > to your printer. > > If you don't want to use SetPrint, you might see if your desktop printer has > an option to download fonts, instead of using internal fonts. This is a > little slower, because it means that the printer must retrieve the fonts from > your computer, rather than using whatever version of them it has hardwired, > but I _think_ it might help with the reformatting. > > Mike > >> On 4/9/2019 2:46 PM, Rick Quatro wrote: >> Hi Framers, >> >> When I save as PDF, FrameMaker automatically changes the printer driver to >> Adobe PDF. So far so good, but I get this message: >> >> "The font information for your system has changed. This change may affect >> the format and output of your document(s)." >> >> Most of the time this doesn't matter, but I do occasionally get different >> line breaks even when I am just using Arial in my document. When the PDF is >> done, the line breaks in the FrameMaker file change back to the way they >> were as the printer driver is changed back to my default. Is there a good >> solution that will prevent this from happening? >> >> >> I have tried unchecking the "Rely in system fonts only; do not use document >> fonts" checkbox, but that doesn't seem to make a difference. Thanks in >> advance. >> >> >> Rick >> >> >> Rick Quatro >> >> Carmen Publishing Inc. >> >> r...@frameexpert.com >> >> 585-729-6746 >> >> www.frameexpert.com/store/ >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> This message is from the Framers mailing list >> >> Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com >> Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com >> Archives located at >> http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ >> Subscribe and unsubscribe at >> http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com >> Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > > This message is from the Framers mailing list > > Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com > Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com > Archives located at > http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ > Subscribe and unsubscribe at > http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com > Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
