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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 .
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 art-
work 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.
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 .)
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) .
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