Font Access in Panorama Lost in Bootable Image

Alan C. Miller sleeper at omsoft.com
Tue Jan 29 13:49:15 PST 2008


QNA--

Don't hate me because I'm converting from 10.3 to 10.4 when most of 
you are a step ahead.

However, in attempting to go from 10.3 to 10.4 I made a bootable copy 
of my laptop's hard-drive on a firewire hard-drive partition\.  My 
tech friend recommended doing an erase & install.  He said to check 
the mirror version doing some daily operations to make sure it was 
identical.

Everything I found was fine except ONE thing.  When I opened a db in 
Panorama, it gave me the dialog that certain fonts couldn't be found 
(ironically a message I'd re-written for Panorama to stress that all 
forms would be drastically altered if the db were saved in this 
state).  I thought maybe it had found the wrong version of Panorama 
to run, and the default setting was for the CLASSIC version, yet it 
had opened the correct version.  I tried a direct open (dropping on 
icon), but same warning.

My tech says something went horribly wrong with my clone, as there 
should be no discernable difference between the original and the 
clone, and he wants me to run a different cloning program.  But 
considering everything else looks fine, I wonder.

So my questions are:

1)  Is there a viable reason several fonts would not be accessible in 
Panorama in an "exact" clone?

2)  Would running a different clone program fix this problem?

3)  If this is "OK", how do you get the "missing" fonts to be 
"accessible"?  [I remember this was discussed once, but it was 
several years ago.]

--Alan C. Miller, Davis, CA


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