Font warlocks: anomalous behaviour of font options in Para Designer

[hedley_finger@xxxxxxxxxxx]

All:

I downloaded a set of the Apple Garamond typeface family from one of those
Mac grab-bag sites:

AppleGaramond-Light.ttf         // Apple Garamond Light
AppleGaramond-LightItalic.ttf
AppleGaramond.ttf               // Apple Garamond Book
AppleGaramond-Italic.ttf
AppleGaramond-Bold.ttf          // Apple Garamond Bold
AppleGaramond-BoldItalic.ttf

These TrueType fonts installed okay in the c:\WINNT\Fonts\ folder and when
double-clicked display the specimen sheet, which can be printed okay.  But
they don't show up in the Word font list.

They do show up in the FrameMaker font list but applying them produces
anomalous behaviour.  For example, you would expect that to produce the
following screen and print appearance, the fields in the Para Designer
would be as follows (or something similar):

SCREEN+  PRINT+  FAMILY*              ANGLE*   WEIGHT* VAR.*

Lt,Reg   Lt,Reg  Apple Garamond       Regular  Light   Regular
Lt,It    Lt,It   Apple Garamond       Italic   Light   Regular
Bk,Reg   Bk,Reg  Apple Garamond       Regular  Regular Regular
Bk,It    Bk,It   Apple Garamond       Italic   Regular Regular
Bld,Reg  Bld,Reg Apple Garamond       Regular  Bold    Regular
Bld,It   Bld,It  Apple Garamond       Italic   Bold    Regular

  + Appearance on monitor and in printed output.
  * Paragraph Designer dialogue field values.

However, I actually get THESE choices in the different fields:

FAMILY*              ANGLE*   WEIGHT* VAR.*

Apple Garamond       Regular  Regular Regular
Apple Garamond Light Italic   Bold
                     Obliqued Bolded

(Note the Italic-Obliqued and Bold-Bolded synonyms.)  This means I get TWO
ways of displaying Apple Garamond Book on screen, but only ONE of them also
PRINTS as Apple Garamond Book!

    SCREEN+  PRINT+  FAMILY*              ANGLE*   WEIGHT* VAR.*

1   Lt,Reg   Lt,Reg  APPLE GARAMOND LIGHT Reg.     Reg.    Reg.
2   Lt,It    Lt,It   APPLE GARAMOND LIGHT Italic   Reg.    Reg.
3   BK,REG   LT,REG  APPLE GARAMOND LIGHT Reg.     BOLDED  Reg.
4   BK,IT    LT,IT   APPLE GARAMOND LIGHT OBLIQUED BOLDED  Reg.
5   BK,REG   BK,REG  APPLE GARAMOND       Reg.     REG.    Reg.
6   BK,IT    BK,IT   APPLE GARAMOND       Italic   REG.    Reg.
7   Bld,Reg  Bld,Reg APPLE GARAMOND       Reg.     Bold    Reg.
8   Bld,It   Bld,It  APPLE GARAMOND       Italic   Bold    Reg.

The values in lines 3 and 4 give me Apple Garamond Book onscreen but print
as Light.  Lines 5 and 6 give me Book onscreen and also print as Book.

Does anybody know why this madness is occurring?  Can it be fixed?  That
is, are there any font-twiddling tools out there that can fix this kind of
problem for FrameMaker?

[Windows 2000, FrameMaker 6.0p405, FrameScript 1.27C01, Enhance 2.03,
Acrobat 4.05.2, mif2go 31u33, WebWorks Publisher 7.0, IXgen 5.5.h, HTML
Help Workshop 4.74 build 8702.0, HTML Help 1.31]

Regards,
Hedley

P.S.  A special thank you to TextPad for its wonderful block select,
delete, and insert mode, and for regular expressions!

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Hedley Finger
Adobe Certified Expert, FrameMaker 5.5.x
Technical Communications/Best Practice Mentor
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