Hi in this video, we're going to look at what happens when you open up somebody else's document and it says Dun, dun, you're missing fonts. There's missing images as well. But we do that in an earlier video. I'm going to close this down. Okay. And you also notice that there was this horrible pink color for anything that is missing. So let's go and do that in our tutorial. Okay, so in this video we've been sent a file by somebody but the fonts have come up missing fonts. So if you're following along with the exercise files, open up Oh, to existing work, open up Green at Heart Prospectus and it says missing links, which we did in a previous video. So go check that one out. Now we're going to deal with this one missing fonts. Now this can be a super easy fix or this can be super complicated. Super easy means it's a font that actually exists on adobes type kit. Type kit is the name that Adobe calls its font library. And what can happen is it can load up and it senses you don't have that fo...

nt on your machine, but it says, hey, I found roboto slab light on type kit and because you're a creative club member and awesome, would you like me to download it and install it for you? Okay. And you can click sync fonts and life is good, where life is harder. It's when it has no sinking here and it says I cannot find it anywhere. So what you need to do is you need to click on this, find fonts. Okay. It's going to tell you in our case it's Roboto slab light. That's missing. Okay. And what we can do, I can click sync fonts here because it's on type kit, but you might not have that option often it's not. So what you need to do is do one of two things. You can replace it with something else. Okay? Because sometimes if you're working across Mac and pc say somebody's used times new roman. Times new roman is what a pc calls times new roman. A Mac for some reason calls at times. Okay, same font, same attributes. So you might have to go and say actually Roboto slab. I'm going to go into my list. Okay. This is the list that are on my computer and find it. It might just have, it might be the pro version. So you might have, you might have Roboto Pro or something slightly different. Okay. And you can go and replace it and you keep an eye on it and see if the font changes. That might be exactly the same. Or you might have to go through and say I don't have Roboto slab. So I'm just going to use aerial. Okay. And I'm going to change all Okay. And it's going to go through and switch out every use of Roboto for Ariel. And that's a sad day because Roboto slab is nice and Ariel is not nice. Another thing you could do is actually just ignore this. Hit done. I don't care about it and it's going to go this big kind of pink color. I know where it is there. Okay. So I got w on off and it goes this kind of horrible pink outline color. Say I'm just doing a text check. Okay? I've sent it to somebody and they're just doing a quick check of the text. They're missing the fonts. Don't worry about it. Just leave it missing. Send it back to the person who originally owned it who does have the font and we'll come back to life If that's still not fixing your problems, you're going to have to install the font, you'll get a package document from your designer or whoever made this. It'll be a zip file and inside of it will be, let's have a look at an existing one. I've got have a look at our desktop and design class files, we made this package file earlier. Okay? So somebody might have sent you this and inside of here is a documents font and you might find hey, there he is there. And all you need to do is double click it. And depending on what program you're on, I'm on a Mac. Okay. And I can just click install font. Okay If you're on a pc, it's very similar process. What I've done for this class is in your exercise files under missing footage. There's one called Roboto slab and here are, all the fonts that we need in this case it's roboto slab light. If I go and install this one now, life should be okay. Go back in here. Ha spring to life. If you don't have that font and it hasn't been sent to you, you're going to have to probably buy it. Some fonts are free, lots of them. Aren't you going to go and buy it? I can recommend my fonts dot com. This is where I buy my fonts, fonts aren't cheap or it depends people have a lot of work into these fonts. So say that I need a font and I need to buy this ah this vintage one that's been made. You can see here this one here is going to cost me €27. Okay, bigger fonts by that. I mean it has a whole lot more characters and waits then you're going to pay more. Okay? But this is a good place to go by it. But there are plenty of other places pick whichever one works for you. Okay, So I hope one of those options helps you with finding a missing fault. Let's get on with this tutorial series

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How to find missing fonts in InDesign?

How to find missing fonts in InDesign?

Lesson Info

23. How to find missing fonts in InDesign?

Lessons

InDesign Tutorial Basics Class Introduction

Exercise files & Projects

What Does Adobe InDesign do?

What are the differences between InDesign and PageMaker, Illustrator, Photoshop, Quark?

How to change MM to Inches & changing UK to US dictionary in InDesign?

New document in InDesign - what is bleed & slug?

How to create your own RGB & CMYK colors in Adobe InDesign

How do I steal colors from a logo using InDesign?

How to color the background of a page in InDesign?

Importing resizing rotating & flipping images & Logos inside InDesign

How to Import text from Microsoft Word into Adobe InDesign

How to group, ungroup & rotate images in Adobe InDesign

How to make a dotted line, dashed line & borders in InDesign

How best to preview your work in Adobe InDesign

How to make a simple PDF from InDesign

How to save your InDesign file as a JPEG

Why should I use CC Libraries in InDesign?

How to share your InDesign files with others by using package document

Class Exercise 1

Quiz - One Page Flyer

Ideas, Inspiration & starter templates

Working with other people's InDesign documents, missing images

How to find missing fonts in InDesign?

How to replace images in InDesign?

Opacity, transparency and see through ness in Adobe InDesign

Why is InDesign adding [Converted] and making me 'save as'

What if I can’t find the InDesign file - can I open the PDF?

Quiz - Other people's files

Creating a new company newsletter or brochure, what are spreads in InDesign

How to use a Master Page in Adobe InDesign

How do to add automatic page numbering to a InDesign file

Removing a master page & deleting parts off the master page in InDesign

Production Video 1

What is Effective PPI & Image resolution in the InDesign links panel

How to add drop shadows to an image or logo in InDesign

What is TypeKit used for in Adobe InDesign?

How to add the Copyright, Registered & Trademark symbols in InDesign

Where can I find the different versions of letters in InDesign - Ligatures.

How to add placeholder text & lorem ipsum & get a word count in InDesign

Importing Text from Microsoft Word & keeping or removing the formatting

Creating Columns in a text box using Adobe InDesign

How do I justify text & turn off hyphenation in InDesign?

What is the space after & leading in Adobe InDesign?

How to underline text with a full width line in Adobe InDesign?

How do I make a paragraph style in Adobe InDesign?

How do I update a Paragraph Style in Adobe InDesign?

How to use Find & Change to remove double spaces after a period or full stop.

Stealing colours from images, is there a format painter in Adobe InDesign?

InDesign Class Exercise 2 - Magazine Spread

Quiz - Company Newsletter/Brochure

How to bring in lots of text into InDesign at once

How do I import paragraph styles from another document

How do I insert completely blank pages in Adobe InDesign

How do I create a gradient in Adobe InDesign

Do I need to use layers in Adobe InDesign

Opacity advanced, mater marks and Transparency Effects in Adobe InDesign

How do I add rounded corners to an image or box in Adobe InDesign?

How to add a large first letter to my text aka Drop Cap

How do I increase the space between letters in Adobe InDesign aka Tracking or Kerning

How do I get text to move around an image or shape using text wrap

Why can’t I put text over anything that has text wrap applied?

How to draw an arrow or triangle or star in Adobe InDesign

How do I put an image inside other shapes like a circle - cropping

What is Adobe Stock

Where can I find free images & icons that I can use for my business

How do I add bullets and numbered lists in Adobe InDesign?

How can I create a table inside Adobe InDesign?

How do I convert tables from Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel into Adobe InDesign

How do I get images to move with the text in Adobe InDesign using anchored objects?

How do I create a Line Break, Column Breaks & Page Breaks in Adobe InDesign?

How do I make an automatic table of contents in Adobe InDesign?

How do you change the tabs in Adobe InDesign?

Can I change the numbering of my pages so 1 starts later in the InDesign file?

Quiz - Long Business Document