Bug with True Type Fonts in Flare 6?

[dtmenges]

I'm trying to generate a PDF with Flare 6. For some reason it won't convert Zaph Humanist for the PDF. It works okay in Version 5. Is this a bug or did I miss a new setting.

Its a little annoying as I already had to move from Optima to Zaph Humanist because it is the closest TT font I had.

[Tutivillus]

A similar problem here too. I've got a font we purchased (Corpid) and it does not show at all in the font select drop downs. Is there a problem with fonts in Flare 6?

[forfear]

If its Adobe OpenType it won't.

If its Microsoft OpenType, it will.

If its True Type it usually should.

[RamonS]

You can try typing in the font name, sometimes Flare picks up on that even when it is not in the list. Worth a try.

[dtmenges]

After working with Madcap's support team, this turned out to be Adobe Type Manager Delux or at least the version that I was running. I loaded the free ATM and the fonts work without a problem. Why fonts stopped working between versions is unknown. It could have been my version of ATM Delux but I'm not curious enough to reload it to find out.

[forfear]

Just an update (almost related ) on this...

It looks like the lack of support for full OpenType fonts was due to GDI and GDI+ rendering engines provided by Windows.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectWrite
If the new DirectWrite and Direct 2D which are natively included on Windows 7 becomes more popular, I am guessing you'll be seeing Open Type support although there is a catch....
Windows XP won't be supported.

[techwriter31]

I'm having a similar problem. I'm trying to use Frutiger 67 Bold Condensed font for the front covers of our manuals. When I attempt to generate the PDF output, the Build dialog displays the following error: "Failed to convert to PDF font: Frutiger LT COM 67 Bold Cn. Using default font: Helvetica." Frutiger is a true-type font, so it should be supported in Flare. Within the Acrobat Distiller settings, I have set the font settings to embed all fonts, hoping that might solve it, but no luck. I also upgraded to Acrobat 9.2, but I'm still having the problem.

[techwriter31]

According to Flare tech support regarding the error for the Frutiger font, this is due to a bug in the .NET Framework 2.0. This bug has been fixed in .NET 3.0 but Flare hasn't migrated to it yet.

[LTinker68]

This bug has been fixed in .NET 3.0 but Flare hasn't migrated to it yet.

Yes, it has. Version 6 requires .NET 3.5. I think Flare v5 required .NET 3 or maybe 3.5. Flare v4 probably required .NET 3.0. Flare v2 and 3 were probably .NET 2.0 and Flare v1 was .NET 1.1 or 2.0.

What version of Flare are you using?

[techwriter31]

I'm using Flare 6.0. The tech support person said that they won't migrate to .NET Framework 3.0 until Flare 8.0...?

[RamonS]

That is probably the release after Windows 2000 is absolutely EOL by Microsoft counts.

[LTinker68]

The tech support person said that they won't migrate to .NET Framework 3.0 until Flare 8.0...?

Apparently that tech support person hasn't read their own KB article --> http://kb.madcapsoftware.com/default_CSH.htm#IAR1001F

[techwriter31]

I followed up with tech support about this, and they said that although the bulk of the code base still uses the .NET Framework version 2.0, they've been moving incrementally toward newer versions for certain features in order to take advantage of the expanded functionality of the newer versions of .NET and also to avoid having to make the switch all at once.

[forfear]

Good to hear!
Its possible that there are more rendering and graphics tweaks that have been enhanced in .NET Framework 3.5 and up.

It looks like .NET Framework 4.0 will be coming out soon.
But I think .NET Framework 4.0 is primarily a major release focused on getting a more stable, better performing version of Windows Presentation Foundation with particular emphasis on graphics and the UI.

[heal]

Well, then this still doesn't work for Flare 7.1... See my topic http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewto ... 362#p79362