atw: Re: Frame is misbehaving

Jill, this is a pretty complex area. There are lots of ways to tackle it,
all of which are appropriate in certain situations. If you're sure you
don't actually use Symbol Bolded in this book, then it's probably lurking
in one of the catalogues or, as Damian said, on a reference page or master
page.

The likely reason you can't find it is that it's defined as the default
font in something like a paragraph tag, character tag or table tag, but
that tag isn't actually used anywhere in this document. For example,
there's a table tag called Grid and the default CellHeading tag for this
table style uses Symbol Bolded. Even if you haven't actually used this Grid
table style in your document, the Symbol Bolded font is named in the table
catalogue so Frame is warns you about it when you open the document. It
would probably be more sensible to warn you only if the font is actually
used, but Frame errs on the side of caution/annoyance.

The likely reason why you can't generate a PDF from the book is that Frame
needs to open every file in the book in the background, as it were, to
generates page numbers, cross references, etc. Just as it doesn't want to
let you open a chapter manually without warning you about the missing
fonts, it doesn't want to silently open each chapter in order to generate
the PDF. A workaround here is to make sure that all the chapters are
already open before you generate or update the book. That is, open each
chapter, click yes to any warnings, then generate the PDF.

Common advice in this situation is to uncheck the preference Remember
Missing Font Names, open all the files, and save them. Frames substitutes a
default 'known' font for any unknown ones, and when you save the files it
makes that change permanent. I don't like this fix because you're assuming
that any character that might have been in the unknown font will be
replaced by an identical or very similar looking character in the new font.
In your case, what if you really did have some mathematical symbols in your
text and they were mapped to Random Characters X, Y and Z in Courier?

Thomas Michanek used to maintain an excellent web page that explained all
this, but it's not there any more. Here's a thread that might help (you'll
need to paste the URL back together):
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.frame/browse_thread/thread/889f66ca2bc338a9/dc98d9e7a91bcb02%23dc98d9e7a91bcb02?sa=X&oi=groupsr&start=0&num=2

Messages 2-4 are relevant to your problem.

Good luck

Stuart

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