Reply To: Commercial printers and Custom fonts

Hi Fran, I don’t think there is a problem here. When the IndyFont manual talks about glyphs for which there is no Unicode code, they mean glyphs that are not officially recognized by name in the Unicode standard. But these glyphs will still have a unicode number… that is, they will still have an encoding value so that InDesign knows where to find the character inside the font.

For example, you can draw any shape you want and stick it in a private use area, like at Unicode U+100F00. So it has an encoding (a number), and InDesign can use it.

The only time you’d have a missing glyph error (empty rectangle) is if the font is not available.

Also, if you export to PDF and give the PDF to the printer, then you particularly don’t have to worry about it, because the font is embedded inside the PDF.