Preview of Indesign document

Hi
I need to create a .jpg preview of an Indesign document, however I don't have all the fonts installed on the system running Indesign server, is there a way to generate a preview without having all the fonts Installed? Someone told me that there might exist a preview in the Indesign document, can I extract that somehow?
TIA
Søren

Hi Franck,
This is Ben from Typekit Support. I just wanted to let you know that this isn't an error you're seeing. Right now, the Creative Cloud web app doesn't preview with the synced fonts. However, this does sound like a good idea, though there might be some technical constraints due to the fact that it's in the browser.
That being said, I've shared this with the team. Feel free to shoot us an email here: [email protected] if you have any further thoughts or questions.
Cheers,
Benjamin

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