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In article <Jan.10.21.54.41.1993.3068@gandalf.rutgers.edu>  
szatrows@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Kheit) writes:
> I have an interesting problem with my fonts...
> 
> I use a particular font Fritz Quadrata.  In all of my regular apps  
only the bold version of the font appears even though I have both the  
bold and regular versions installed in my LocalLibary/Fonts directory.   
However under FrameMaker I can see and use both?!  Why would this be  
so.  BTW I'm using NS 3.0 and I've copied the 2.0 version of  
buildafmdir to my machines so supposedly everything should work...  I  
do have a lot of fonts though, so may more of them are 'missing' but  
this is the only one I know of.  
> Any ideas?

You can turn this around, too. A client of mine bought Helvetica  
Fractions to use with FrameMaker. EVERY NeXT app they have sees  
Helvetica Fractions in the font panel except for FrameMaker. We asked  
RightBrain about this and they said it was Frame's fault - ask Frame.  
We asked Frame about it and guess what? They said ask Rightbrain. 

I don't know enough about the inner workings of all the font family  
name stuff, but based on the response that I saw in an earlier post  
today, this may be the work around that will allow it to be used within  
FrameMaker. It may be more trouble than it's worth though, because when  
the stuff goes to the printer, whatever Helvetica Fractions is changed  
too will have to be changed back. 

So, a pox upon Frame for their font panel, and a pox upon RightBrain  
for not living up to their support promise.

John Bartley
john@wpa.com