Category Archives: FrameMaker

Disappearing Text in PDFs – Part 2

Posted on January 13, 2012 by smurphy

Following on from a post I wrote a while back on text that was present in the source file, but mysteriously vanished on saving to PDF, here’s a similar incident I encountered with a different resolution. In this case, again … Continue reading →

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Disappearing text in PDFs – Part 1

Posted on November 25, 2011 by smurphy

There’s little more frustrating than finishing writing a lengthy document, with minutes to go to a deadline, clicking Save as PDF with a heavy sigh of relief that everything’s finally done, then opening the final PDF for a last once-over … Continue reading →

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Dealing with Rogue Fonts in FrameMaker

Posted on July 13, 2011 by smurphy

This is a FrameMaker gotcha that occurs frequently. You’ve used a font somewhere in a .fm file, moved the file to another machine, and got an error saying the font’s not available and will be substituted by something else. Sometimes … Continue reading →

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