Embedding Fonts FrameMaker

Brief Description

Font embedding enables fonts used in the creation of a document to travel with that document, which ensures that a user views the document exactly as the author intended.

What your issue is

You get the font missing message when opening a FrameMaker file, although you have carefully checked all your paragraph and character formats.

How to fix this issue

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To get rid of the message if you have carefully eliminated the obvious errors:

1. Close the file.

2. Turn off the preference Remember Missing Font Names.

3. Open the file (you will get the message again).

4. Save the file

5. Turn ON the preference Remember Missing Font Names again.

More Details

Only TrueType fonts can be embedded, and then only if their licensing allows embedding.

To embed all TrueType fonts in your publication when you save it, select Embed TrueType fonts when saving publication in the Fonts dialog box (Commercial Printing Tools command, Tools menu).

When you embed fonts, you have the option to subset them rather than embed the whole font. This may be useful if you need to keep the file size of your publication small. However, subsetting fonts will limit your ability to edit text and make any needed corrections. If you expect to edit your publication later, don't subset fonts when embedding.

You can set the embedding status for individual fonts. If you know that some TrueType fonts are available on the computer or at the commercial printing service you're taking your publication to but that others are unavailable, you can embed only those fonts you'll need.

Check that you have set your PDF generation settings to embed all fonts. Turn off subsetting too, because sometimes it does that wrongly.

Some fonts cannot be embedded. If you use one of those, Framemaker will try to embed it but fail. There is nothing you can do about that.

References:

Where to search for missing (unavailable) fonts

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