Basic Font Settings - Adobe FrameMaker 7.0 User Manual

Basic font settings

The [Fonts] settings in the initialization file determine the default fonts, the fonts not used for spell-checking, font
sizes in a pop-up menu, and definitions needed to interpret fonts from other platforms. Several settings determine
whether features in Adobe Type Manager Deluxe 4.0 will be used.
Font size
D i s p l ay Usi n g Pr i n te r Me t r ic s = Of f
Si ze s = 7 p t , 8 p t , 9 p t , 1 0 p t , 1 1 p t , 1 2 p t , 1 4 p t , 1 8 p t , 2 4 p t , 3 6 p t
The DisplayUsingPrinterMetrics setting determines whether on-screen display uses printer font metrics or screen
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font metrics. When printing, printer font metrics are always used to calculate line lengths, line breaks, and page
breaks. However, the default Off value for this setting means that screen font metrics are used for on-screen display
of fonts, which usually results in a better on-screen display but may introduce a difference between line lengths
on-screen and on a printed page.
If you are trying to position a graphic relative to a character in a line, you should change this setting to On. This
causes printer font metrics to be used when displaying the lines on the screen.
The Sizes setting defines the values that appear in the Format > Size submenu and in the Size pop-up menu in the
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Paragraph Designer and Character Designer. You can edit this line to change the values to any values between 4
and 400 points. If the line contains more than 10 values, only the first 10 appear in the menus.
Definitions for the font profile
Several lines under [Fonts] define the terms used for font information. This is how the definitions initially appear:
An g le s = Re g u la r, Ku r s iv, S la n ted , O bli q u e, It a lic , O bl i q u e d
Va r iations=Ult r aCompressed, Ext r aCompressed, Compressed, Condensed,
Na r row, Re gular, Wide, Poster, Expanded
Wei g h t s= T hi n 1 0 0 , Ex t r a L ig h t 2 0 0 , S em iL i g h t 2 5 0, L i g h t 3 0 0 , B o ok 3 0 0 ,
Re g u l a r 4 0 0 , S e m i B o l d 6 0 0 , D e m i B o l d 6 0 0 , B o l d 7 0 0 , E x t r a B o l d 8 0 0 ,
He av y 9 00
• The Angles and Variations settings define the names of angles and variations that may be encountered when
opening a document from another platform.
• Windows uses values to define font weights and other terms. The Weights settings associate terms from other
platforms with font weights appropriate for Windows. For example, Thin is interpreted as the weight 100.
You can edit these settings if your document has variations, angles, or weights not specified in the default settings.
Default fonts
Some of the [Fonts] settings define the default fonts for a new document. If FrameMaker needs to remap characters
for fonts that are unavailable and you do not have an appropriate font map specified, it remaps the characters to the
default font.
These are the default font settings:
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