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1. Re: Is it possible to remove unseen font references from an .fm file?
Arnis Gubins Jul 19, 2012 3:55 PM (in response to Bill at HNS)Bill,
You don't say what version of FM that you're using. In FM10, there's a new Font replacement tool that will let you remap the "missing" fonts to anything else.
The alternative is to make permanent the alternate mappings for the Helvetica and Times by changing the Preference "Remember Missing Font Names" and saving the file. This will change those to whatever is set in your maker.ini [UnknownToKnownFontMap] section.
[Added] Once you've saved the file with this preference turned off, you can turn it back on again the next time you've opened the file. This will blow away the old references.
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2. Re: Is it possible to remove unseen font references from an .fm file?
Bill at HNS Jul 20, 2012 6:49 AM (in response to Arnis Gubins)We use FrameMaker 9.
Very interesting.
When you say, "This will blow away the old references," do you think it would get rid of the numerous references that are unseen in the .fm file (unless you look at it in Notepad)? Most of all we don't want to see the Frame Console messages (referenced above) every time we open a file.
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3. Re: Is it possible to remove unseen font references from an .fm file?
Error7103 Jul 20, 2012 6:56 AM (in response to Bill at HNS)> ... do you think it would get rid of the numerous references that are unseen in the .fm file ...
It can't get rid of the font invocations that are coming in with imported-by-reference objects, such as from DWG, DXF, EPS, and PDF, as well from formatted text insets from other .FM files.
It may or may not be able to remove such references from objects imported by copy-into-document.
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4. Re: Is it possible to remove unseen font references from an .fm file?
Reviewer1066 Jul 20, 2012 10:28 AM (in response to Bill at HNS)Bill,
Many years ago I had a similar problem. I solved it by saving the file to mif and then opening the mif file with NotePad or WordPad, then searching for instances of the old font. These usually appeared as a toggle on and a toggle off without any text between them. So, I deleted them and opened the mif file and saved back to fm. I did not take the opportunity to determine exactly where these instances were in the file. They can be anywhere..body pages, reference pages, master pages, etc.
NOTE that if you take the above route and then import your template into existing files, the instances in existing files will still be there because it cannot copy in something that does not exist.
When you say, "This will blow away the old references," do you think it would get rid of the numerous references that are unseen in the .fm file (unless you look at it in Notepad)?
No, the references are still there, but you have changed them to a different font, one that is on your system. Arnis' point is that this is a simple way to get rid of the console messages because the assumption is that such font references do not display in your document so are likely inocuous.
Van


