Unavailable fonts

Hello, I am experiencing a maddening problem with unavailable fonts. This message is of the variety that Framemaker has to reformat before I can open the FM file. Here are some details about my problem:
1. On a sporadic basis, Framemaker displays a Framemaker Console message that Arial Black is unavailable and Imago will be substituted. However, when I save as MIF, I cannot find any mention of Arial Black there.
2. I cannot locate any grayed out fonts in any dialogs, i.e., Paragraph Designer, Character Format Designer, Find Character Format, regular font dialog.
3. I cannot find for Arial Black; Arial Black is not available in the drop-down list box.
4. I have unchecked Remember Missing Fonts, exited, printed, etcetera, but missing fonts are still remembered.
5. My default printer is Adobe PDF.
If anyone has any tips for me on how to locate the offending format, I would really appreciate it.
Thank you,
Z.

I ran into a similar (maddening) problem yesterday and benefited from a simple solution provided by a colleague. If you've installed Windows XP SP3, that's likely the cause of the Arial Balck problem. Windows XP SP3 includes an update to Arial Black font that our Framemaker template does not like. It changes all Arial Black Bold to Arial Black Heavy. This may the case for your templates, too.
If you install SP3, restore the Arial font before opening a Framemaker document.
Try this. It worked for me:
Go to C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\ and delete the Arial Black font file ariblk.ttf.
Open C:\WINDOWS\$NtServicePackUninstall$\
Locate the file ariblk.ttf.
Copy/paste it to C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\.
Then start FrameMaker.
For more detailed information, see: http://www.timawa.com/font-problems-after-installing-windows-xp-sp3/

Similar Messages

  • Problem with unavailable fonts haunting me

    Using Frame 11, I cannot create a PDF because of unavailable fonts. I dutifully change them to what the console says using the Character Designer. That works. But when I open the files back up later, the unavailable fonts message come back.
    I need some help with this. Thanks.
    -- David

    Hi,
    I've been having exactly the same problem while updating a rather old book, containing about 100 separate files. (And over the next few weeks, I am likely to have to update several similar old projects.)
    The fonts pod lists several fonts that are not used in text, as we only use 'Arial', and it is definitely available for use. So I spent some considerable time weeding out the spares, only to still be faced with "unavailable fonts" on every file.
    After reading this thread, I checked the console window (d'oh), and found that "Arial Narrow Bold" was the actual problem. This is not listed on the fonts pod.
    The only solution seems to be to search each file individually for Character Format "Arial Narrow", searching separately in the body pages, master pages and reference pages. The result of every search so far has been "Not Found"; however I am not having any more trouble with the files I have searched.
    Normally I love my job, but this is possibly the most tedious, time-consuming and nauseating thing I have had to do in the last five years. I am probably going to have to spend most of the next day or so, searching single files for things that are not in fact there.
    Shame on you, Adobe.

  • Can Pages be setup to allow me to select what font when replacing an unavailable font?

    I would like the ability to choose for myself whether to replace an unavailable font within a document with Pages' suggestion or a font that I select specifically on my own.   Is this possible?

    Hi Grandma,
    18 point Helvetica Bold .
    There is an Apple Support Community called Vision:
    https://discussions.apple.com/community/accessibility/vision?view=discussions
    I shall ask the Moderators (Hosts) to move your discussion to that forum.
    Kind regards,
    Ian.

  • Unavailable Fonts Preview-Information-Warning Missing SC5

    Chris Cox suggested I start a new on this subject when I mentioned it in another thread.
    CS5 12.0.1 — 10.6.4:
    I open a layered .psd with a text layer (font not available on system).
    Ps opens and gives missing font error.
    Ps displays a substituted font.
    Type layer shows no warning of missing font.
    Type layer does not clue me what the missing font is — I can only guess:(
    +++++++
    CS4 11.0.2 — 10.4.11
    I open the layered .psd with a text layer (font not available on System).
    It opens and gives missing font error.
    Ps displays missing font properly.
    Ps Type layer displays warning.
    When I click in the text to edit — it calls out the missing font by name and warns me the font is missing and will be substituted.
    +++++++
    Am I the only one with this problem?

    - Please turn off Automatic font activation & Alert me if system fonts change in Preference from Font Book first.
    Hi, I am not sure what you mean, if you mean turn FAP Auto font activation off, I removed the FAP plugins from Ps so I believe that would turn Auto activation off?
    I don't recall ever opening Font Book and I don't understand what change in preference from FB you are talking about.
    Your missing font text layer shows yellow icon, correct?
    If you double click the yellow icon, missing font name should show.
    With the FAP plugins installed in Ps 12.0.1 (10.6.4), I don't have the yellow missing font warning icon in my font layer (Ps just loads a substituted font and there is no way for me to call it up) — but I know exactly what you are referring to, the yellow icon is just not there with FAP plugins loaded.
    If this is a bug as I suspect the lag I discovered, you should be able to reproduce it with ease on YOUR machine:
    10.6.4
    Install FAP 4.120
    Install Ps CS5 Plugins pictured below (these aren't available yet on fFAP website)
    open a file
    create a text layer, save file as .psd
    remove font from system
    reopen .psd
    okay missing font warning
    original font displays for a moment then is replaced
    layers pallet> font layer does not show yellow icon or recover missing font info
    quit Ps
    remove FAP plugins from Ps
    reopen .psd
    you have yellow icon warning back with missing font info...
    BTW i dont see ur email

  • InDesign CS3 replaces unavailable Fonts

    Hi,
    we have InDesign CS3 server running. The server renders Preflight PDF. If a layout uses a font that the InDesign Server doesn't know, the InDesign server replaces the unknon font with one he knows.
    Is there a way to tell the InDesign CS3 server which font to for replacing an unknown font?
    Thanx for ur kind help.

    I am having this same problem with the Windings font and CS3, the bullet (opt-8) does not show properly. The Bullet in Windings looks like a "Target" instead all I get is a rectangle box that is highlighted pink (highlighted pink like when a font is missing..)
    The file looks fine in CS2 but doesn't when opened in CS3 on the same computer with the same fonts loaded at the same time (i.e. document is open in CS2 & CS3 side by side).
    I can get the character to display properly if I use it as a Bullet (Type-Bulleted & Numbered List.)
    The character doesn't display in the window but if you manually ad it as a character then it will display in the document properly where used as a Bullet but still will not display properly if used in just straight typing.
    I also removed as many fonts from my system as posable, Windings was the only font activated in Extensis Suitcase Fusion v. 12.1.6. Turning Suitcase off made no difference either...
    I did notice that Adobe InDesign CS3 loads fonts from this location when it starts (Library-Application Support-Adobe-fonts), if these fonts are not managed what keeps them from having a font ID conflict with another font? I did remove as many of these fonts as posable and it still made no difference with this problem though.
    I had a problem like this with another font but I can't remember now what one. Thought it was a bad font at the time, although the file worked fine in CS2.

  • Fonts unavailable in FM 8.0 but available in MS Word

    Several Futura and Garamond fonts were installed on my laptop but are not available in FM. When the documents are open containing these fonts, the "unavailable fonts" message boxes displays.
    When I access the Paragraph Designer and select the Default Font tab, a few of my paragraph tags, the font is displayed in gray. The three unavailable  fonts are Futura Book (Future Book BT True Type) , Garamond Book/Ultra Cond and Futura Light (Futura Light BT True Type).
    Any idea why I can use these fonts in Microsoft products but they seem to be unusable and are replaced in the FM Console?

    (1)     FM might mean FrameMaker. The original poster should let us know what he means by FM.
    (2)     In terms of Apple's support for fonts in FileMaker, in fact they only support TrueType fonts. They only support TrueType-flavoured versions of OpenType, not OpenType CFF fonts.
              - Dov

  • In Pages 5.2, some fonts "not available", yet present in Font Book and working in other apps

    Using Pages 5.2, I open a document created in a previous version, and I get error messages about certain fonts within a font family being "not available" in OS X.  However, these supposedly unavailable fonts are present in Font Book and work just fine in all other apps running on OS X.  In fact, I still have the older version of Pages on my system, and it still finds the fonts without issue.  The specific fonts troubling me at the moment are Myriad Pro Semibold It and Myriad Pro Cond.  Pages 5.2 replaces them with Helvetica.  I have wasted hours of time trying to resolve this problem, and I am at a total loss.  What can I do?

    Like so many other thing is is probably gone. Why not use Pages 09 that has about 100 features more than Pages 5. If you haven't deleted it it should still be in Applications/iWork 09 folder.

  • "Times" font not found. How do I fix this?

    Hey folks, it's me with another epic font problem.
    Windows XP environment, running Adobe Technical Communication Suite with Framemaker 8 and Acrobat 8 3D.
    Ever since upgrading to versions 8, we get this error when we make a PDF from Framemaker:
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    The "Times" Font is not available.
    It will be replaced by "Times New Roman".
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    Here's the weird stuff:
    - If the PDF is made via "Print to file" then distill the .ps file, the error does not show up.
    - If the PDF is made via "Save as PDF" the error appears in the Framemaker console, but ONLY when Distiller starts processing the files (as in, the unavailable font error does not appear when you simply OPEN the file; it only shows up once you start PDFing).
    - In EITHER CASE, the PDF seems to work, and we can print it on our local printer. But when we send it to the print shop the big high-speed super powerful industrial size printer won't accept the job due to missing font files, so printing FAILS.
    A bit more:
    - I've noticed that if I set Framemaker to NOT remember missing font names, and I open the files, PDF them, save and close the files, then open them again and PDF them a second time, then the problem disappears. I don't get the console message and the print shop can print the books from the SECOND PDF. But this is TEDIOUS and I would think unnecessary. Also, it doesn't seem like the fix is permanent. (The Times thing seems to creep back in somehow.)
    Surely there is a better way. Note that none of us has a font on our system called simply "Times," so I don't even know where that's coming from.
    Any ideas?

    Mike, I realize that we are getting into more of a Framemaker realm than Acrobat at this point (although I still think that this is an Acrobat problem), but is it possible to specify that Adobe PDF is the default printer ONLY when working in Framemaker? After all, we do other work here, and print to our default laser printer all the time.

  • Error message font

    In opening Numbers 3.1 documents on my iPad, I keep receiving the annoying error message that I'm missing a font. Okay, easy enough, I thought...I edited the document (on my iMac, also using the most recent Numbers) by selecting all its text, and changed the font to one that's available.
    Except that, apparently, the unavailable font (in this case, Univers), appears to be hidden somewhere else in the document. I am baffled as to how to get rid of this annoying error message, which comes up every time I open the document on my iPad - a waste of time.
    Where might this reference to needing Univers exist in my document, and how can I get rid of it?

    I think I've figured it out.
    On my iPad, I clicked on an empty cell. I then chose "select all" (if that option doesn't show, the cell is not actually "empty"). Then, using the formatting "brush," I click on "Table Options," and then "Table Font," selecting a font that's on the iOS version of Numbers.
    That seems to work. Selecting a cell with content, then expanding the selection borders until the whole spreadsheet is selected, for some reason does not work - apparently that handles only the fonts in the cells...leaving this wondrous "table font" untouched.

  • Remapping TrueType Fonts in Framemaker 9.0 maker.ini

    Greetings, forum community.
    When attempting to embed non-base 14 fonts in PDFs using Pitstop v7.52, I receive a notice that no TrueType version could be located.
    I believe (please correct me if I'm wrong) that the solution is to remap the unavailable font (in this case Arial, Bold) to an available font (Helvetica, Bold) in the Framemaker maker.ini file.
    My entry in the maker.ini file is as follows:
    Arial, Bold, *, *=Helvetica, Bold, *, *, *
    Alternately, I could use Arial MT.
    Neither, however, seems to work as I've mapped it. Upon generating a PDF, I still receive an error from Pitstop saying it was unable to embed the font.
    Can anyone easily see where I may be messing up and offer a solution?
    Thanks, as always, and best regards.
    JMW

    Unfortunately, I'm only vaguely familiar with Pitstop. I used it for a short
    time years ago, but remember little about it. But I do recall that it is an
    Acrobat plugin and therefore uses Acrobat to produce the PDF. So check your
    "PDF presets" (.joboptions settings) in Acrobat Distiller because there is a
    dialogue that lets you specify fonts that will never embed. Some of the
    default Adobe PDF presets, including (if I remember right) even the Standard
    options, have some fonts set in there to never embed (it assumes that
    everyone has them on their computer already) and that may include the fonts
    you are having problems with. If this is the case, just move the fonts from
    the "never embed" column into the "always embed" column to fix your problem.
    Then save as a custom PDF preset to use in the future. You can also save the
    changes to the current preset, but  I seem to recall that Acrobat updates
    have recently started resetting some user settings without permission. So
    you may find that changes you made have disappeared in the future if you
    don't save as a custom preset!

  • How to set a different default font

    Is there a way to set a different font other that Myriad Pro as the default font so that you don't have to continually reset it for every field or label???

    During import, Designer attempts to match fonts in the PDF file with fonts that are available on your computer. If the file contains an unavailable font, Designer displays a dialog box showing the missing font and a suggested replacement. You can accept the replacement font or change it.
    This font substitution is not permanent. Designer must map the unavailable fonts every time the form opens. You can make the font substitution permanent by selecting File > Save As and then selecting Permanently Replace Unavailable Fonts before saving the file. This method is recommended for permanently substituting fonts.
    You can also set up a font-substitution table in the file ConvertPDF_FontMap.txt in the Designer installation directory. If you add a font-substitution rule to this file, all occurrences of the substituted font are changed to the new font when you import a PDF, regardless of the font-mapping table and regardless of whether the substituted font is available on your computer.
    ConvertPDF_FontMap.txt is empty by default. Each entry you add should have the following syntax:
    input_font=Designer_font
    where input_font is the name of the font used in the input PDF file, and Designer_font is the name of the font that is installed on your computer. Asterisks (*) represent wildcard characters. For example, the string *Cour* refers to all font names that contain the string Cour. Question marks (?) represent single-character wildcards. Adding wildcard characters before and after the input_font name accounts for any slight variations in the name of the font in the form. For example
    *Arial*=Arial
    *Helv*=Arial
    *Cour*=Courier New
    *=Times New Roman
    Processing occurs in descending order. The last line in the example converts all remaining fonts to Times New Roman.

  • Trouble with FrameMaker 9 fonts

    I have a user that is trying to
    open a file but he keeps getting an error msg stating "Document named "whateverthefilenameis".fm uses unavailable fonts. To reformat the document the using avaiable fonts, click ok." It was also give a message of "FrameMaker did not update the generated files in '133 Baseline.book' because of errors during the update process."
    I can't find any information on this. any help would be greatly appreciated.

    When you open a file that uses fonts that are NOT on the user's system, you get the message about unavailable fonts. This is usually the desired response, especially if the file is worked on by different users, each with a different set of fonts. It allows the user who does not have the fonts to edit the file without changing the fonts.
    That being said, sometimes users feel they have all the correct fonts, but still get the message. This typically occurs when one is changing all the fonts from one version of a font (say Times) to another version (say Times New Roman). This means that somewhere in the file, there is at least one reference to the unavailable font, typically somewhere on one of the reference pages or master pages. So, if one wants to get all the unavailable fonts converted to available fonts, then one has to search through the entire file to find them. If it is a simple conversion, say from Times to Times New Roman, then you can open the preferences and unselect the warning about unavailable fonts, open the file and let Frame do the conversion, then save the file with the new fonts, and change the preferences back for safety with future files.
    If a book file has one or more files that use unavailable fonts and you update the book, then you get the message about Frame's being unable to update the book due to errors. The errors are the unavailable fonts. If you do NOT want to change the fonts to available ones, open all the files in the book first, then update the book. You will get the unavailable fonts message for each file as you open it up, but not while updating the book, because the files are already open.
    Hope this helps,
    Van

  • TextEdit font problem

    I'm having a problem with fonts in TextEdit. Some of the fonts in a particular font family are not available when I choose them either as a default font in the Preferences dialog, or as the active font in the Fonts panel. The unavailable fonts are listed, but when I select them nothing happens or the selection jumps to an entirely different font family.
    The strange thing is that these fonts in question work perfectly in other OS X applications that use the Fonts panel, such as pages.
    Here's a screenshot of the Fonts panel in Pages. All of the Helvetica Neue LT Com fonts are listed properly:
    !http://img.skitch.com/20090912-ercfgxyqpujqycfd2mjebuej51.png!
    But here's a screenshot of the Fonts panel in TextEdit. Observe how the "Light" font is listed differently, i.e. just "Light" instead of "45 Light" as it is in Pages. Also "43 Light Extended" is only listed as "W3" in TextEdit, and there are other similar examples.
    !http://img.skitch.com/20090912-xgrbpkwi9kqkck8c7apqnni8gi.png!
    Any ideas what's going on, and how to fix it?

    I don't have a solution (and I haven't noticed contradictions like yours), but I have noticed other font problems with TextEdit 1.6 in 10.6 and 10.6.1 (the version that was there when I finished installing 10.6).
        If I paste in a selection from, say, a webpage and the font size is not one listed by default in its Font Menu, the size does not display, even if I use Command + or -, until it becomes one of the listed sizes. But it never displays in the top right data entry box.
        Another anomaly is that pasting text that has an embedded link retains both the link and the special formatting even when using Paste and Match Style. It does not match style. If you apply Paste Style makes, that makes no difference, either. I have to either type it instead of pasting it or paste it in a Text Only file, then copy or cut it out and paste it in the RTF document. I tried selecting Edit > Substitutions > Smart Copy/Paste but apparently that refers to putting spaces between words when pasting in (I could not find it explained in TextEdit Help). I tried turning off Smart Links, but while it works with URLs, it has no effect on linked text (I am talking specifically about the kind of linkage found in the "Genre" line at IMDb.com, as an example).

  • PDF Generation Error Message:Couldn't open File while generating PDF from a Frame (7.2 Version) book

    Hi,
    I'm trying to convert a book into PDF and I get the error message Couldn't open a file (... <filename>.fm) and the unavailable Fonts dialog box also appears. The tricky thing is I've converted the same book into PDF just a couple of days ago. Now when I tried to do it again, I get the above mentioned error message. I tried unselecting the File > Prefrences > General > Remember Missing Fonts checkbox too. However, it didn't help in generating the PDF. I will be thankful if anyone suggests a suitable workaround for this issue. Thanks in advance.

    Usually, deselecting Remember missing fonts works.
    The missing fonts message displays when you or FrameMaker opens the file. The workaround is to open all the files in the book, or at least those with the "missing" font, clearing the message for each file. Now print the book to PDF, while keeping the files open. This usually works because you have already cleared any missing fonts messages.

Maybe you are looking for