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• • September 2, 2011 at 1:52 am #60430
    Nuria Beltran Xandri

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    Galen Gruman in “Adobe® InDesign® CS5 Bible” says: “InDesign actually uses Adobe Sans MM or Adobe Serif MM to create a replacement for missing fonts so that the text looks as close as possible to the actual font.”

    My questions are:

    How can InDesign do that? Is it because is a MM font?

    In my case, I can't see this fonts in the font menu although the program makes me a good simulation of the missing fonts. It seems like Adobe Sans MM and Adobe Serif MM are not installed but however they works. How is it possible?

    Thanks for your answers and, sorry for my English!

  • September 2, 2011 at 10:53 am #60433
    David Blatner

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    Either Galen was wrong, or you misread the text. InDesign does not simulate fonts with MM fonts. However, Acrobat does.

  • September 5, 2011 at 1:28 am #60441
    Nuria Beltran Xandri

    Member

    Thank you very much for your response David, and a lot of thanks for your blog, your website, your podscasts…

    My english isn't so good but I pasted a direct quote from the book…

    So, how does ID to simulate fonts? Because I think it does. It highlight the missing fonts (if you have this preferences on) but they displayed on screen like the missing font.

  • September 5, 2011 at 4:44 am #60443
    Tim Hughes

    Member

    What is the missing font?

  • September 5, 2011 at 8:25 am #60444
    Nuria Beltran Xandri

    Member

    From your question Tim, I have found that ID simulated the Franklin Gothic Book, the missing font, but maybe is because I have installed the ITC Franklin Gothic Book.

    Instead, if the font is, for example Rotis Sans Serif or other font than isn't available, the text is displayed with the default font.

    Can anyone tell me if this deduction is correct?

  • September 5, 2011 at 10:41 am #60445
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Yes, I believe InDesign just uses the default font (Times or Minion Pro). When you are in Preview mode, the font is just wrong. When you are NOT in preview mode, you should see pink highlighting over all the text. (The color is controlled by the Composition Highlights in the Preferences dialog box.) The “dreaded pink” means the font is not available or the characters are not available in the font you have chosen.

  • September 6, 2011 at 2:35 am #60449
    Nuria Beltran Xandri

    Member

    Thank you!

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