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• • June 2, 2022 at 5:01 pm #14366389
    Max Pinton

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    There’s a very handy script by Tom Royal that changes a whole list of fonts at once. What with the Type One Fontocalypse approaching I thought I’d get a shiny new OpenType Neue Helvetica license and update it to facilitate the switch.

    The problem is that it can’t seem to find the font. The old font is called “Helvetica Neue (T1)” in the font menus and I’ve tried it with and without the “(T1)” without success. I’ve tried the bare string (as in the original script) as well as app.fonts.item(fontName).

    I’m probably missing something obvious but has anyone got this to work with Type One fonts?

  • June 2, 2022 at 10:03 pm #14366402
    Petar Petrenko

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    Isn’t it listed in “Type > Find/Replace Font…”?

  • June 21, 2022 at 10:02 am #14366403
    Steve Davis

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    This is great, there was also a solution recently by Mike Rankin: https://creativepro.com/indesign-how-to-find-files-using-type1-postscript-fonts/

  • July 6, 2022 at 12:27 pm #14367581
    Brett Stone

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    Max,
    We’ve been experiencing something similar using the “change fonts csv.jsx” by @kasyan-servetsky.

    In our case, its not every Type 1 font fighting back, but merely some. While these tend to be font families that we have accumulated several versions and technologies, and often they share an identical Postscript Name, neither of the scripts mentioned thus far rely on postscript naming, and both work similarly in how they utilize the find/replace functions of InDesign to run.

    It seems that if we can manually select a font to to find, and then the font to change, the scripts should be successful at doing this much faster, more consistently, and even in locked content.

    So the issue appears to be more of how InDesign does what it has to do as a result of the scripts, but not the scripts themselves.

    Looking for additional ideas, too!

  • December 11, 2022 at 2:42 pm #14376127
    Civi Bernath

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    I’m not sure I’m in the correct thread, so here goes:
    As is everyone, I’m getting frustrated replacing my Type 1 fonts when opening existing files.
    I already downloaded the “skip warning” so my files don’t lock up when opening, but what I really would love is to create a list of fonts spread sheet style, with a “find” column, and “replace with” column, and then run it all. I can create it with multifind but is there a script that will do it faster?
    Mike Rankin’s clip was very interesting to see, but it doesn’t do the fix automatically.

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