Is it possible to delete the new references are from an FM file?

We used a Framemaker book model which was created 15 years ago to create technical manuals. We have modified this model many times. It is quite complex, but the main objective is to keep the appearance, structure, etc., consistent among writers to interrogate. It works well.

We used initially times and Helvetica as the primary font. Now, we use other fonts. It was a tedious job to replace all instances of time and Helvetica in the paragraph and character designers.

Here's the problem:

Theoretically, these fonts should be gone.

But if I open the model, even with no content files, I get this message in the Console of Frame:

XXX of fonts is not available.               (where xxx is Helvetica or Times, or variants)

zzz will be used during this session.

I don't see this problem until today, because my computer was just reimagee by IT and so I have more these (Postscript) fonts installed. Setting think that these fonts are always used in the different chapters of FM. But he shouldn't have them.

I got to thinking how old is our model and so I 'looked at' one of the models, chapter.fm files. I renamed the file chapter.txt and was able to open with Notepad. I found about 40 references to Helvetica buried in the code of the image (some of them "machine language"). It was certainly revealing. My real question is, is anyway to purge these references of font files? The file structure is quite complex, and I wouldn't think of changing these files. I'm sure that it wouldn't work, and Adobe would probably stop me if I did.

Is there an editor of MIF or similar that could do that?

I could reinstall these fonts to work around the problem, but they are not really used and if I would be rather purge references to the police if I can.

Can someone say: create a new template. If we did, we would like it to be the same as the one we have. It is complex enough that we can not just take the time to do so. It would take days and days.

Thanks for any help.

Bill,

You don't say what version of FM that you use. In FM10, there is a new font replacement tool that allows you to remap the "missing" fonts to something else.

The alternative is to make permanent the mappings for Helvetica and Times by changing the preference "Names of missing fonts don't forget" and save the file. This will change everything that is defined in your maker.ini section [UnknownToKnownFontMap].

[Original] Once you have saved the file with this preference turned off, you can turn it back on again the next time that you open the file. This will blow the old references.

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