Mapping Fonts
WriteUp lets you map font names between itself and other word processors. This is especially useful if the fonts you use for documents in other environments are not available in your WriteUp environment.
Two files, fontmap.import and fontmap.export, should be placed in /LocalLibrary/WriteUp (if the mappings are to be provided network-wide) or ~/Library/WriteUp (if individual users need their own mappings). WriteUp searches for user-specific files first. If found, the network-wide files are never consulted.
In both files, the general syntax of each entry is
"FontName" = "OtherFontName";
In the fontmap.import file, FontName is the name of a font that occurs in documents generated in other environments, like "Chicago" or "Arial", which is not available in your WriteUp environment. OtherFontName is the name of a substitute font that is available in your WriteUp environment, like "Helvetica". To ensure that the substitute font can be located, use the file name from the Fonts directory in the File Viewer ("AGaramond"), not the name that appears on the Font Panel ("Adobe Garamond").
In the fontmap.export file, the situation is reversed: FontName is the name of a font that is available in the WriteUp environment, but not in the destination environment.
![]() | The font mapping files are loaded only as you launch the application. If you change the font mappings while WriteUp is running, you must quit and restart the application so that the new mappings are used. |
![]() | If you find messages like "WriteUp: Can't map fontname 'TmsRmn' " in the Workspace console, you should create a fontmap.import file containg, in this example, the line![]() |
See also
Opening a document from another word processor |