How do you do the italic? A style? Keystroke? If it’s a style, the style might be defined as 10 when that setting should be blank.

What is your reason for the added leading to one word? When I did it (from 14 to 18), InDesign just moved the whole paragraph down four points. Why not just use a space before or space after?

Unless the frame has visible (meaning in print) edge for a design reason, I don’t see why it’s not simply wide enough to accommodate the 100s or heck, more.

They might not be InDesign files. Slap some other extensions on them . . . you won’t hurt anything. You might even be able to break into them with a text editor or a hex editor and get some clues.

Colleen, the phrase “Fonts are software and simply won’t work on newer systems” isn’t accurate.

Back in the day, Type 1 and TrueType fonts were *made” for Mac or *made* for Windows. The problem is that Mac files (most often fonts and applications) used to have a resource fork and a data fork, and [unless the disk was set up to accommodate] a Windows device would kill one of the forks (I forget which). When you looked at it later you saw 0 bytes.

The fork thing was a bane to a very large customer. They stored many gigs of Mac fonts and apps on a Novell server that was not configured to house Mac files, and trashed them. I warned them, but nooooo….

But basically, you can use even back to 1982 bitmapped fonts and T1 fonts on a machine shipped last week. (Umm, not sure about Multiple Master. But I never met anyone who used them.) You just don’t want to push old Mac faces onto a Windows platform. You can store old Windows-made fonts on a Mac, but that’s only store; you can’t use them in apps.

You also need to be careful of a font with TTF extension. Generally, but not always, an old Mac font did not ship with an extension at all, but if an extension were to be added, just looking at the file name won’t tell you if it is a Mac-rename or a Windows-native file.

That said, it’s still a good idea to move to OTF.

“Also, the fonts in the documents fonts folder, are 0kb. From what I understand, Mac didn’t allow for some reason to save these fonts in the package.”

I would bet dollars to donuts the package was saved on a Windows server. Windows does not allow for the resource fork (or maybe it’s the data fork) of a Type 1 font, and turns it to zero. But in any case, type 1-based OTF is the way to go. Not TrueHype.

You said “…upon downloading the File on the next day…” do you mean you find the numbered files on your computer but NOT the server? Also, what is your platform?

It would seem one solution is the same thing: Replace the PNGs in Word with TIFFs, but with thousands of files I have to admit that I have not used InData and if the developer doesn’t know the fix for Word, maybe you’ll have to use Google Docs. Sorry I can’t help further.