Missing fonts: medium vs. regular

We have recently installed ID CS6 on our Windows 7 PCs. When we open docs from previous versions of ID CS6, we find many missing fonts, ie. ITC Zapf Dingbats (TT) (Medium) - we have "regular" but ID doesn't recognize them as being the same thing and doesn't allow us to use the substitute with this font, Helvetica, and even Gill Sans Light. This is a huge problem because these fonts are in almost all of our documents. I know that it has something to do with ID "reading" them differently because we do have this font available in Photoshop. (Both ITC Zapf Dingbats (TT) in Regular and ITC Zapf Dingbats (T1) in Medium are there.) Is there any way to get ID to recognize both of these fonts so I don't have to go in and manually change all of my fonts?
Thanks for any help!
GS

Zapf Dingbats (TT) and (T1) are completely different fonts -- one is TrueType and the other is Type1 Postcript. There is no way they will be automatically interchangeable in ID.

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Welcome to Apple Discussions, mowriter.
Open FontBook from the Applications folder and check the font collections "All Fonts" and "User".
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Maybe you've just disabled the fonts that Pages requests.
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IWorks asking for certain missing fonts

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Well, if your goal is to make the problem go away without
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cause and prevent it from recurring in the future...
"Sometimes they get sleepy" is an attitude that really bothers me at a
deep level. Programs shouldn't break. And when they do, we should make
the effort to understand why they do. And report those problems back
to the manufacturers, who should be given the opportunity to fix
them. Even if we think they won't.
Programs break for reasons. Sometimes complicated and tricky
reasons. Sometimes reasons we can't actually figure out. But sometimes
reasons that we can. And we need to take the effort to figure out
why. Or at least try to a reasonable effort.
It is our moral duty. Otherwise the programmers who author the
software will have no opportunity to fix the problems, and thousands
of user across this green earth will be forced to deal with the same
problems we deal with regularly, for years and years, all because no
one was willing to take the minimal effort to figure out what was
broken and why.
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We're all using FrameMaker 10 on Windows 7.
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I found the problem, but I'm not sure why it was a font problem to begin with:
Unresolved cross-references.
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Some of the font calls were on a reference page that was found only in select files. However, one would think that would show up in the MIF.
My best guess is that FM couldn't update the cross-reference formats without updating the cross-references, so it "thought" the text was still in the wrong font. That begs the question: Which came first, the unresolved cross-references or the missing fonts?
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My iWork apps keep giving me missing font document warnings when I launch Pages, Keynote and Numbers documents. This is a problem already reported by many other iWork users but I haven't found a satisfactory solution and I'm hoping someone here can help.
When launching an existing Pages document, I get this document warning:
Here's what I see in the Font Chooser. Helvetica has got some new variants like '.Light Oblique'. What the??
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Whenever I open or create an iWork document I get the Missing Font error mentioned in this thread. The new version of iWork lets me select a substitute font, but my choice never seems to "stick." Once I close the document and reopen it, the same message reappears. iWork seems to assume that every document must use the dfont version of Helvetica/Helvetica Neue, regardless of what I want.
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<PgfMaxJRomanLetterSpace 50>
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<PgfOptJLetterSpace 0>
<PgfMaxJLetterSpace 10>
<PgfYakumonoType Floating>
<PgfAcrobatLevel 0>
<PgfPDFStructureLevel 1>
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You might want to read through these threads:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/1890146#1890146
http://forums.adobe.com/message/1871457#1871457
Check out the referenced MS Hotfix.

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