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Back in the day, we had to manually go through each of our styles to make those changes!Īlso, beginners may miss the More Info button which I also circled in the illustration. Checking this allows you not only to change the fonts in the document but in all the styles using those fonts which are defined in the document as well. To do this, you’ll need to open any of those graphics in the native application they were created in.Ī powerful but often overlooked feature is the Redefine Style When Changing All checkbox (circled in the second graphic above). However, be aware that you cannot use this dialog box to change the fonts in any placed graphics. To replace the fonts within the InDesign file, you can highlight a missing font then use the familiar buttons to the right: Find First, Change, Change All, and Change/Find, which function similar to the way they work in the Find/Change dialog box. When one of these fonts is highlighted, the Find First button shown above turns into a Find Graphic button so you can search for the graphic where the font is located. InDesign can’t tell what kind of font it is. In the screen capture below, the Milkshake font is found in a graphic and is also missing. An extra symbol appears for fonts in graphics. If you need to access that information, there’s a script for that. Older versions also indicated the type of each document font: OpenType, PostScript fonts, or TrueType.

InDesign uses the yellow alert icon to indicate missing fonts. Within this dialog, you can view the fonts in the document in a scrolling list. At any time, you can open this dialog box by choosing Type > Find Font to check on the status of your fonts. You can do a complete Find and Replace for files in the InDesign file. In this dialog box, you can identify all the fonts used in the document, or missing fonts in the document or in placed graphic files. This is InDesign’s manager for working with fonts-one of the essential resources we use when creating layouts. To fix the problem now, click the Find Fonts button. Normally, unless you’ve turned off this feature in Composition Preferences, substituted fonts are highlighted in your document with a pink color. Clicking Close will not change the file and will allow you to work even with the missing font(s). You have a choice here: You can ignore the problem by clicking Close, or you can fix the problem now. This is telling you that one or more of the fonts in the document you just opened are missing. Almost everyone who has used InDesign has encountered the dialog box shown below.