Adobe 65023809 Printing Guide - Page 23
Missing Font messages, Missing Fonts Alert, Using the Find Font feature
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Missing Fonts Alert When you open an InDesign file that uses fonts currently unavailable on the system, you're presented with an alert listing the missing fonts. However, only fonts used by InDesign are listed: fonts used in support artwork are not listed here. Using the Find Font feature InDesign's Find Font feature lists fonts used by InDesign, as well as any fonts used by placed graphics. Here, the font Balloon is used by a placed Illustrator file, but is not available on the system. (Illustrator embeds fonts with suitable permissions, but won't embed fonts whose vendors disallow embedding.) To replace a needed font in the Find Font dialog box, select the font name in the top window of the dialog box, and then choose a replacement font family and style in the Replace With fields. Replacing fonts does not, by default, change style definitions. To do that, check the Redefine Style option. Keep in mind that replacing fonts will change the appearance of text and possibly cause reflow. It's preferable to use the correct fonts originally specified by the designer, unless you have been given permission to replace fonts. While you can designate replacement fonts for text created in InDesign, you cannot replace fonts in placed graphics; for that, you'll have to open the artwork in the originating application and make the change, resave, and update in InDesign. Again, consult the file's creator to obtain the correct font, or permission to substitute an available font. When you preflight a file in InDesign, the application checks for fonts needed by placed artwork and reports any missing fonts. When you package a file, InDesign gathers up all necessary fonts-including those required by (but not embedded in) placed artwork, provided that all required fonts are active on the system. "Missing Font" messages A common cause of missing font messages is moving a file from one platform to another. Even if you've deemed this safe because only OpenType fonts are used in the file, you may be surprised by InDesign's insistence that it's missing the font Times. This is because the InDesign default paragraph style, Basic Paragraph, uses a platform-specific version of Times. It's likely that the "missing" font is used in a miscellaneous space or paragraph return. You can either manually change each instance (being careful to determine that this won't alter the appearance of text), or you can change the definition of the Basic Paragraph style. Double-click the style named [Basic Paragraph] and change its Basic Character Formats to use a font that is available on your system. Note, however, that if you perform this change and return the file to your customers, they'll face the same issue when they reopen the file on their own platform. Cross-Platform-Missing Times message Because the Basic Paragraph style on a PC uses Times Roman,and the Basic Paragraph style on Mac OS uses Times Regular, this message may appear when you open a InDesign Mac document on a PC (left), or a PC InDesign document on the Mac (right). Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide 21
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