ID CS3 Windows - Missing Font,...

I have a problem with Find Font (as many others on these boards seem to)... but not necessarily Arial Narrow. It happens in CS3 occasionally in documents that are picked up from existing documents and then modified (I work for a monthly trade magazine publisher).



The problem we've seen with this issue is that occasionally a typeface will flag that it is missing, but if you go to the Find Font window it cannot find the first instance... and in the ''more info'' section it indicates that the character count used is 0, and the style count, styles, and pages lines are blank. The font usually shouldn't be in this document (meaning we own it and use it in other documents, but not this particular one), and there aren't any hidden/locked layers, and no unwanted/extra text boxes can be found (even if one uses the ''object find'' to find all the text boxes...



It is beneficial for us to pick up the previous month's document when working on the next document, because all the settings are there (styles, color palettes, document-specific preferences, etc.) and, if there are multiple individuals working on these documents, it maintains title style integrity much easier than if individuals not familiar with the title are constantly having to start a fresh document. So... you see the conundrum.



Any suggestions on the phantom nonexistent type? It wants to transfer itself to embed in PDF when we send to press, because the document says it's there, but it isn't. Help?
ID CS3 Windows - Missing Font,...
Try exporting to .inx and opening that, then run Find Font again. I'm willing to believe that Find Font could report in error, but I've never seen it.



%26gt;It is beneficial for us to pick up the previous month's document when working on the next document, because all the settings are there (styles, color palettes, document-specific preferences, etc.) and, if there are multiple individuals working on these documents, it maintains title style integrity much easier than if individuals not familiar with the title are constantly having to start a fresh document. So... you see the conundrum.



This is why templates were invented. :) Re-using old documents has been a traditional source of file corruption, though in my experience it is far less of a problem in ID than it was in Quark, which was miles better than Pagemaker.



Peter
ID CS3 Windows - Missing Font,...
No, you're right, re-using old documents HAS been a traditional source of file corruption - but we don't use templates for the very reason that a template is somewhat ''permanent'' and in a monthly periodical setting outdates more quickly than one would think, and the previous month's document is much more current. And - we get away with it for the very reason that you indicated - because it is far less of a problem in ID than it was in Quark, and miles better than Pagemaker.



I wonder if actually moving versions isn't actually part of the problem, since many of these documents were at some point converted from Q4 to IDCS2, and then brought into IDCS3? But - we will definitely try this and see if it cleans it out. It just might do that! Thank you!

Converted docs can be flaky. The first thing you should do is export to .inx and reopen and save a new version.