Framemaker fonts unavailable
Hello,
We are transitioning FM users from windows xp sp3 to windows 7 64bit. Our FM users have been upgraded from FM7 to FM 10. We are completely stuck with FM missing all types of fonts. We have copied the fonts and installed from winxp machine to windows 7 and are still having major issues with fonts. The users have adobe 7.0 full installed and we are running msoffice 2010 32bit. We also had to upgrade our print servers to 64bit drivers. For example arial is one such issue:
Couldn’t open CoverPage.fmThe "Arial Black Bolded" Font is not available.
"Arial Black Heavy" will be used in this session.
The "Arial Black" Font is not available.
"Arial Black Heavy" will be used in this session.
The "Arial Black Bolded" Font is not available.
"Arial Black Heavy" will be used in this session.
The "Arial Black" Font is not available.
"Arial Black Heavy" will be used in this session.
The "Arial Black Bolded" Font is not available.
"Arial Black Heavy" will be used in this session.
The "Arial Black" Font is not available.
"Arial Black Heavy" will be used in this session.
The "Arial Black Bolded" Font is not available.
"Arial Black Heavy" will be used in this session.
The "Arial Black" Font is not available.
"Arial Black Heavy" will be used in this session.
Couldn’t open CoverPage.fm
We have tried unchecking the Preferences > remember missing fonts name" option and this did not work. We would appreciate any assistance with FM fonts as we are at a standstill. thank you
I've found the answer to my problem and it's quite simple and what pretty much everyone has been saying but missed one tiny step.
Everyone needs to have the old version windows xp fonts not the Windows 7 fonts. For example in windows 7 the arial font version is 5.06 and in windows xp the arial font is version 2.35
1- Copy the arial font version 2.35 or the missing font in the old xp version
2- Most important you have to install the fonts logged into the pc as the Administrator not as a user with local admin rights.
3 - Right click on the font and click install
4- Reboot the pc
5-Log into the pc and launch FM and open the FM file and the fonts will no longer be missing.
Solved the issue
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