Work with missing fonts – Adobe InDesign User Manual
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Superscript/Superior & Subscript/Inferior
Numerator & Denominator
Tabular Lining
Proportional Oldstyle
Proportional Lining
Tabular Oldstyle
Default Figure Style
The character may change form when it appears at the start (initial position), middle (medial position), or end (final position) of a word, and it may
change form as well when it appears alone (isolated position). Select a character and choose a Positional Forms option to format it correctly. The
General Form option inserts the common character; the Automatic Form option inserts a form of the character according to where the character is
located in the word and whether the character appears in isolation.
Some OpenType fonts include raised or lowered glyphs that are sized correctly relative to the
surrounding characters. If an OpenType font doesn’t include these glyphs for non-standard fractions, consider using the Numerator and
Denominator attributes.
Some OpenType fonts convert only basic fractions (such as 1/2 or 1/4) to fraction glyphs, not non-standard fractions
(such as 4/13 or 99/100). Apply Numerator and Denominator attributes to these non-standard fractions in such cases.
Same widths are provided for full-height figures. This option is appropriate in situations where numbers need to line up from one
line to the next, as in tables.
Varying-height figures with varying widths are provided. This option is recommended for a classic, sophisticated look in
text that doesn’t use all caps.
Full-height figures with varying widths are provided. This option is recommended for text that uses all caps.
Varying-height figures with fixed, equal widths are provided. This option is recommended when you want the classic
appearance of old-style figures, but you need them to align in columns, as in an annual report.
Figure glyphs use the default figure style of the current font.
Work with missing fonts
When you open or place documents that include fonts not installed on your system, an alert message appears, indicating which fonts are missing.
If you select text that uses a missing font, the Character panel or Control panel indicates that this font is missing by displaying it in brackets in the
font style pop-up menu.
InDesign substitutes missing fonts with an available font. When this happens, you can select the text and apply any other available font. Missing
fonts for which others have been substituted will appear at the top of the Type > Font menu in a section marked “Missing Fonts.” By default, text
formatted with missing fonts appears in pink highlighting.
If a TrueType font is installed and the document contains a Type 1 (T1) version of the same font, the font is displayed as missing.
You can choose Type > Find Font to find and change missing fonts. If a missing font is part of a style, you can update the font in that style by
changing its style definition.
Make missing fonts available
Do any of the following:
Install the missing fonts on your system.
Place the missing fonts in the Fonts folder, which is located in the InDesign application folder. Fonts in this folder are available only to
InDesign. See
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Activate the missing fonts using a font-management application.
If you don’t have access to the missing fonts, use the Find Font command to search for and replace missing fonts.
Highlight substituted fonts in your document
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