InDesign for QuarkXPress Users [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

Find Font Dialog Box

The Find Font dialog box allows you to see where in your document missing fonts are located, to replace fonts with other fonts on your system, or to gather information about the fonts in your document (see Figure 53-2). The button labeled Less Info toggles with More Info to open or close the bottom portion of the dialog box.

XPress's Usage dialog box only displays the fonts which are on document pages or on master pages, but not both at the same time. Similarly, when you replace fonts in XPress, you can only do this on either document or master pages. InDesign makes no such distinction, and it can find or replace fonts on master pages at the same time as document pages. Furthermore, the Find Font dialog box also lists fonts which are located in EPS or PDF files (but it cannot replace them).

Finding Information

When you select a document font in the list, you can click the Find First button to find the first instance of the font in the document. The text that uses the document moves into view. If the font is in a graphic, the Find Font button changes to Find Graphic.

InDesign indicates in the font list whether a font is PostScript Type 1, TrueType or OpenType by its icon. If the lower portion of the dialog box is open, clicking on a font provides more informationthe PostScript name, the location of the font, and the number of characters using the font, for instance. (The font type may be Unknown if the file format of the graphic doesn't provide information about the font.)

Replacing a Font

To replace a font, select it and then select a replacement font from the two Replace With popup menus. Click Find First, and then you can do one of the following:

• Click Change to change that instance of the font.




• Click Change/Find to change that instance and find the next instance.




• Click Change All to change all instances of the fonts selected in the list.

When all the instances of a font are removed, the font disappears from the list. InDesign shares QuarkXPress's limitation that font replacements don't change the fonts which are defined in a paragraph or character style. They apply the font change locally to the text, but they don't change the font in the style itself. This is, in our humble opinion, extremely annoying in both programs.

Note that to replace fonts which are in graphics, you have to open the application which originally exported the graphic, then update the graphic in InDesign.