The Document Uses Fonts That Are Currently Unavailable On Your Computer

[Janne Evers]

Youmean that you have installed the font in your system and also in the InDesign font folder? Maybe that's why InDesign doesn't recognize it. Install the font only in the system and be sure that the version used in your document is the same as the one which is installed.

So, you have to check in your Windows font folder if Arial is installed (I would be very surprised that it is not the case) and check also if there is not another version in the InDesign font folder (Programs > Adobe > Adobe InDesign > Fonts

Did you create this document or has it been provided to you by another person? If it comes from someone else, contact this person to get a package, including the fonts. You will not need to install them in the Windows font folder, InDesign will recognize them (for this file only).

It's from my coworker, that uses a mac, so I'm guessing that'll cause us some issues with fonts.

I will replace them manually. I just thought the software checks your system and adobe fonts to replace any missing fonts.

I am redesigning an InDesign document from another designer, and I am unable to use the fonts he used, so I am replacing the fonts on my computer with the ones he used. He used Gotham Bold, Medium and Light. I added them to my Mac in Font Book and that did not work, so then I added them directly to Adobe InDesign CC 2019 Font Folder. However, it still shows them as not available. What else can I do? Thanks for your help.

He used PostScript Type 1 fonts. This is an older format which can have a couple issues: (1) They are platform specific. That is, if the designer was using Windows, you would need the Mac set of fonts (completely different). (2) If he/she was working on a Mac, they would need to give you both parts of the fonts. They require both a "screen font" and a "printer font." If only one of the components was installed that would not work.

Below is a picture of an old archive of Type 1 Mac Fonts (more than 25 years old!). You wouldn't see the green checkmarks (that's a Dropbox thing because I store them on Dropbox). But the screen fonts are stored in the FFIL file type and the printer fonts are stored in the LWFN file types.

Thanks, Steve. He was using a Mac. But what you are saying is this would be really complicated for me do and it should really be done by the original designer? Or he needs to give me the screen and printer fonts?

And if you're buying them, I would suggest OpenType fonts which have been the standard since 2000, are cross-platform, support a much larger number of characters, etc. In fact, that's likely what you would paying for. I doubt they're even selling Type 1 fonts.

Bear in mind that if you buy the fonts they will STILL be missing - you then have to switch to use the new fonts. Hopefully they are equivalent in layout, but a bit of reflow and overset should be expected and checked for.

The document uses fonts that are currently not available on your computer.

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TeXGyreHeros-Regular

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I thought I was using "Helvetica" on my Ubuntu machine when I made the figure. But that is false, and I'm actually using "TeXGyreHeros" on Ubuntu. It turns out that installing MacTex on my MacBook does not help to get "TeXGyreHeros" installed. Maybe I'm misunderstanding something? I don't know.

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When working with documents that were created on another computer, designers often face the problem of the lack of fonts in the edited text. In this article, you will learn how to replace such fonts with the help of the native Illustrator feature and with the help of VectorFirstAid with just one click.

When you open a document that contains fonts that are missing in your system, the Missing Fonts dialog box appears. An alternative way to open this window is: Type > Resolve Missing Fonts. Text with missing fonts is highlighted with pink.

VectorFirstAid users have another opportunity to quickly replace the missing fonts in the whole document or only on the selected text object by clicking on the "Replace All Missing Fonts" button in the VectorFirstAid panel.

To quickly replace the font, set by default, you can also click on the "Replace All Missing Fonts" button in the VectorFirstAid panel, while holding down the Opt/ Alt, and select the desired font in the dialog box.

Manage all your used fonts from one location using Font Manager. You can check if any unavailable fonts have been substituted for another font, swap for another font and also locate the text instance which uses the font.

On opening a document that uses fonts that are not installed on your computer, you'll get notified of this issue via a pop-up message. It's common practice to resolve this situation so the document will look as the original creator intended.

The Font Manager lists fonts used in text objects throughout your publication, along with their current status and substitution state (e.g., missing). You can either source the missing font yourself or use the Manager to use a substitute font instead.

The column called Substitution shows which local fonts are being used as substitutes for missing fonts. Fonts will already have been chosen for you as replacement but you can pick your preferred font instead.

I've just opened a document in Affinity Publisher, and it tells me that certain fonts are missing. Among these is Athelas, which the documentation for Ventura tells me is still a system font, and so should be available.

This is all the result of a big fit people threw about these supplemental fonts in Monterey. In that case, it was Adobe blaming Apple. I wrote a demo app in about 10 minutes that conclusively proved that Adobe could have handled fonts better. Of course, Adobe said I was lying. So I wrote a little app to disable most of those supplemental fonts so that Adobe users would have useable font menus again. But I think that was the final straw. Apple is happy to have people blaming it or 3rd party developers. But they don't like it when someone just comes along and fixes it like I did. So, Apple applied their own fix in Ventura, breaking my app along the way.

However, I wasn't entirely truthful above. I did have no problem using Athelas. I downloaded it. Installed it. Created a document with it. But I did all of that on Monterey. It did work properly on Ventura as you can see. I copied that document from Monterey to Ventura. I opened it on Ventura and the Athelas document support font was used and available as it should have been.

But I couldn't reproduce all of that on Ventura itself. There are some bugs in Ventura that make this more difficult. It wasn't as easy to install and use Athelas on Ventura. Even though I installed Athelas, it wasn't available in the font menu. I had to use the "Show Fonts" operation in Text Edit and then pick "All Fonts" before I could pick Athelas in a new document. After restarting, it does show up properly in the font menu. But that's just Ventura. It's really buggy. ? I don't know why everyone jumps over each other to install it the day it comes out. I only use Ventura for testing and documenting issues like this. I do NOT use it for my work.

You can still use Athelas. You may have to install it briefly just to "prime the pump" and create a document that uses it. It doesn't matter if you get the duplicate warning. Once you have a document that uses Athelas, you can keep using it in that document. You can even delete you freebie version of Athelas and use the system version. But it will only be available in a document that already uses it.

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