atw: Re: Frame is misbehaving

Jill :

On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:04:39 +0800,  Damien wrote:


> I had a similar FrameMaker problem.  It turned out the
> unavailable font was in a redundant "tutorial" master page
> that wasn't even being used. 
>
> So you might try doing a font search after opening your master
> pages.
>
when you'd said:
>
>>
>> Despite being a Frame rather than Word person, at times it
>> drives me mad. I currently have a file that is 'using an
>> unavailable font' - one I never use or have even heard of -
>> and therefore my book is not working. Naturally I click yes
>> to the reformat box and it opens, but it will not allow a
>> PDF to generate.
>> I have tried all the tricks I know - is there one I haven't
>> tried. Where can I look for the occurrences of this font in
>> the document - it is called 'symbol bolded'????
>> This file worked perfectly well in the last iteration. Jill  

Yep.  Normal searches won't find stuff on master pages unless you
switch to view Master Pages first.   Similarly, you may have to dig
through the Reference Pages as well to find the little bugger.
And remember, too, that you may have more than one instance of the 
font specification -- and they all need to be changed. 

Now from memory, I seem to recall there's another case where this
can occur and not be detected by above methods...  soooo...

As a near-final resort, save the file as MIF and open the MIF file 
in a text editor and search for the name of the font.    Then note
the section of the file where this is, and start looking there.

You'll find font definitions, tables and frames and things are defined at the 
head of the MIF file -- well away from the page text, so context is different.
Frames and tables for example, are defined first and then referenced in position
within the text flow(s).

If you're really courageous, you can try changing 
the font setting tags within the MIF file to something like your default Body 
font
setting, (this will probably mean changing a few lines ), then  resave the MIF
and reopen the MIF with Frame. 

Frame is pretty forgiving with many of the smaller MIF  changes, so 
you don't get problems with the latter approach -- just remember you only
"fix" you file when you save it back as a Frame binary ( .fm)  format.

Otherwise, having noted the context of the font setting, reopen the binary
file and search for it again.    It can be something as subtle as an "empty" 
bit of text in a table cell or whatever.
   
Good luck.
--Peter M   
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