Mystery Fonts in My Document

[Craig_Gabriel@adobeforums.com]

The Preflight in my InDesign CS keeps telling me I have at least two fonts in my document that I don’t intend to have and that evidently aren’t there. When I use Find First to locate them it highlights nothing. Just in case they’re in the document somewhere after all, I chose to change them all to another font, but that had no effect. It still insists my document includes those fonts (which probably never existed, and if they did should be gone now since they were “changed”).

[CJC_Williams@adobeforums.com]

If you're using a frame as a design element (e.g. a blue square as part of the background)then check that it hasn't been assigned as a text frame. It can still contain a font even if there isn't any type in it.

CW

[Craig_Gabriel@adobeforums.com]

No, I don't think I'm doing that, not intentionally anyway.

I thought maybe there was a just a stray space or something somewhere that contains a font, but shouldn't doing a "change all" to another font eliminate it even if it does exist somewhere?

[graffiti]

but shouldn't doing a "change all" to another font eliminate it




Is it in a placed document/image? If so, it won't change it.

[textmonkey@adobeforums.com]

I ran into this problem in ID2 on a Mac and in IDCS on Windows. I've never been able to consistently replicate how it occurs, but usually using Find Font/Find First will allow you to locate the offending type box and either delete the space at the end of a paragraph attributed to the ghost font or change it to the font of the paragraph in question.

The one time I did have a "missing" font that Find Font couldn't locate it was because the Windows IDCS doc had been opened and updated on a Mac then transferred back to a PC. The result was that similar Mac Type1 fonts were substituted for PC fonts and then replaced again by similar PC fonts.

I ended up having to carefully delete pages from a COPY of the file to locate the text block that contained the ghost and then completely retype that text box in the original document.

Don't know if this will help you, but once I did that (took about 15 minutes of deleting sets of spreads) it cleaned up the ghost completely. Very important to do this kind of detective work in COPY of your file and not the original. InDesign cannot always undo deletion of large sets of pages from a document.

[Abe]

On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 00:04:33 -0700, [email]Craig_Gabriel@adobeforums.com[/email]
wrote:

>The Preflight in my InDesign CS keeps telling me I have at least two fonts in my document that I don’t intend to have and that evidently aren’t there. When I use Find First to locate them it highlights nothing. Just in case they’re in the document somewhere after all, I chose to change them all to another font, but that had no effect. It still insists my document includes those fonts (which probably never existed, and if they did should be gone now since they were “changed”).

Mine was due to a character style applied to a font that didnt support
that style (e.g. italic) and it was applied to the end of a line i.e.
not applied to any characters.
I never have got the replace to work, but the goto first use does go
to the right page - you just have to find it.
Best way is to ALT-reapply paragraph formats and hope you reset it
without the character format.

Abe