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When you select this menu entry the file selector will appear and you will be able to select a document file to load. When you click on [OK] or press [Return], Calamus will attempt to load both the document and any associated fonts (if they are not in memory or embedded in the document to be loaded).

Here, we must discuss in greater detail the license for Calamus fonts. The CFN fonts of the Classic types series are encoded with your program's serial number. Therefore, you have to supply your program's serial number when you buy new CFN fonts. Every time you want to load a licensed font into memory, Calamus will compare the serial number of your program to the serial number encoded in the font. If they differ, an error message will appear, and Calamus will not load the font.

As a result, if you want to load someone else's Calamus document, you will have to own all the fonts which the document uses or substitute other fonts in their place. Even if one of your friends has one of these fonts and should be so kind as to provide you with a copy, you will not be able to use the other person's fonts because they will be stamped with a different serial number. Apart from this your friend is committing a criminal act as he is breaching the copyright and licence conditions.

Since you cannot expect professional imagesetting bureaux to have every Calamus font in stock, a special module is available to them to overcome this problem. This optional module (the Job list module) allows the bureau to laser print or imageset, but not alter, a Calamus document using someone else's licensed fonts. So as to prevent misuse here, each Calamus document contains a copy of the serial number with which it was created. The Job list module will check this serial number against the serial number of the fonts to make sure that the person who created the document is the font owner. This ensures that only your documents can be imageset with your fonts. To repeat: These restrictions only apply to CFN fonts from various commercial sources. Public Domain and Shareware fonts used by Calamus do not use this serialization system.

Back to loading of a document: If Calamus cannot find one of the fonts required by a document, the following dialog box will appear:

By clicking on one of the fields you can decide how to proceed:

Change search path

A click on Change search path tells Calamus to look for fonts in a different location (see Options / System paths). This option affects not only the current font, but all those which follow. The fonts will then be looked for in the selected directory and all subdirectories. If, for example, you enter the directory C:\ as the new search path, Calamus will search the entire first hard disk partition for the font. On the one hand this makes things nice and simple, but on the other it can be extremely slow, especially with a large drive. It is best to enter the actual path to the directory in which Calamus can find the fonts.

Try again

Searches for the same font in the same place as before. This option allows you to switch floppy or interchangeable media disks if you keep some of your fonts on these. It is of little use if the font is on your hard drive, since how should it suddenly appear there?

Select replacement font

If you really do not have the required font, you can use Select replacement font to define a different, and if possible similar, font. When you click on this button the file selector will appear. Try to choose a font that appears as similar as possible to the original one. Different fonts rarely have identical spacing, so text formatting and line breaks may be changed by the new font. So a different font will affect the appearance of the text, specially if the text contains elements of manual kerning (see Text style module).

Cancel loading

The last possibility is to break off the complete loading process. If you click on the corresponding field, you can continue working as before the loading attempt.

Replace all fonts not found

If you activate this switch (box crossed), then from that moment on all further loading of fonts that are not found for that document will be replaced by the one font that you specify with Select replacement font at the next loading conflict. This can, of course, lead to many undesired side-effects, as subsequently even assignments to greatly differing fonts will point to the same font – namely the one that you have specified as a replacement font. For this reason this switch is normally left off. We suggest you should only set it if you want to take a quick peek at a document and believe that searching for many of the fonts contained in the document may take a long time. Or if you just wish to extract the text contents from this document, but do not care about its original formatting.


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Last updated on December 12, 2015

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