AI CS5 missing font

The font Bickham Script Pro has completely disappeared. It is not listed in my Type Fonts and any document previously made with this Font says it does not exist and will have to substitute a different Font. It is not in Trash. How do I retrieve this Font?

1812,
That rather depends on how you got it in the first place. You may have to repeat that.

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CS5.1 Missing fonts - converted to outline

Hello, I have PC with Adobe Master Suite CS5.5 installed.
Problem:
I had to open eps file, where is font Obelix Far East, which I don't have and needs to be replaced to Myriard.
When I open this eps, all Obelix's words are automaticaly converted to outlines.
original:
CS5.5 - immedatelly after opening:
Is any way to prevent convert words? I can see it first time, because before CS5.5 I used only CS4 and there was no problem with this. I simply replaced missing font for the known one and that's it...
Thank you very much for any idea.
Regards...Ilja

like maybe I hit some odd key command that made it all go away but I've been unable to get anywhere.
Yes that is the case, you accidentally must have hit the cmd + T key and now you have set Bridge to show only thumbnails.
Under the menu view you will see a checkmark in front of the option: "show thumbnail only" . Click on it again to deselect or hit again cmd + T (on a Mac) and you get back to the normal situation

Replace missing font with font of my choice in Photoshop CS5

I'm using Photoshop CS5. How can I replace all instances of a missing font with a font of my choice?

I am having the same problem. From what I read around the web, there is supposed to be a dialogue box which opens to ask which font you want to use. I don't get a dalogue box, it simply replaces the missing fonts automatically with Myriad Pro without asking which font I want to use. If anyone knows how to get the dialogue box to appear, I'd appreciate the help.
I am using CC.
Thanks!
S.
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[AS][CS5] Find and replace a missing font

I have an overly complex script that compares the document's fonts missing fonts to the system fonts and makes a best guess. It was written to handle conversion of Multi-ad Creator documents to InDesign. It has worked 100% of the time so far. It needs a LOT of cleaning up and tweaking to make effecient, but that is not the point of my question. Everyday I am sent an InDesign file I have to work with and everyday it will has a missing font. Arial (OTF).
I ran my script thinking it would replace it with Arial (TT). No problem...
Ran it... nothing.
When I use the find dialog in Indesign to search based on the applied font it works, the returned properties in AS contain:
return properties of find text preferences
font:"Arial (OTF)"
Ok, fine so I try...
set properties of find change text options to {case sensitive:false, whole word:false, include footnotes:false, include hidden layers:false, include locked layers for find:true, include locked stories for find:true, include master pages:true}
    set applied font of find text preferences to "Arial (OTF)"
    set applied character style of change text preferences to "Page&Header"
    tell document 1
        set myFoundItems to change text
    end tell
Nothing.
This has pretty much worked on every other font I've tried, so what am I doing wrong here?

All right, back at it....
I've run into even more fonts that it is an issue with. My basic thoughts on this are as follows: When bringing a document from Multi-ad Creator to InDesign the fonts are named in a way that InDesign does not recognize them. The thing is those fonts are really fonts that are on my system. It is simply a matter of rearranging the name of the applied font to match what InDesign would recognize. The thing is InDesign will allow me to use Find/Change to modify the fonts in the document.
Now the fonts I've run across that give me an issue are fonts that do not correspond to any font on my system. I do not have any TrueType fonts, this document I opened today did...
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5"
    set myDocument to active document
    tell myDocument
        set myPage to page 1
        return properties of every font
    end tell
end tell
{{font family:"Helvetica (TT)", PostScript name:"Helvetica-Bold", parent:document id 34 of application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5", index:1, name:"Helvetica (TT)     Bold", object reference:font "Helvetica (TT)     Bold" of document id 34 of application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5", status:not available}, {font family:"Helvetica (TT)", PostScript name:"Helvetica", parent:document id 34 of application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5", index:0, name:"Helvetica (TT)     Regular", object reference:font "Helvetica (TT)     Regular" of document id 34 of application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5", status:not available}, {font family:"Times (TT)", PostScript name:"Times-Bold", parent:document id 34 of application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5", index:3, name:"Times (TT)     Bold", object reference:font "Times (TT)     Bold" of document id 34 of application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5", status:not available}, {font family:"Times (TT)", PostScript name:"Times-Roman", parent:document id 34 of application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5", index:0, name:"Times (TT)     Regular", object reference:font "Times (TT)     Regular" of document id 34 of application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5", status:not available}}
Ok, so let me try this (commented out are the different ways I've tried):
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5"
    set myDocument to active document
    tell myDocument
        set myPage to page 1
          --return properties of "Helvetica (TT)" --"Helvetica (TT)     Bold"
        return properties of font "Helvetica (TT)" -- "Helvetica (TT)   Bold"
        set myDocumentFonts to name of every font
    end tell
end tell
Adobe InDesign CS5.5 got an error: Unable to retrieve the font's UID from its name.
I was able to get the properties of the font using:
return properties of every font whose PostScript name is "Helvetica-Bold"{font family:"Helvetica (TT)", PostScript name:"Helvetica-Bold", parent:document id 34 of application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5", index:1, name:"Helvetica (TT)     Bold", object reference:font "Helvetica (TT)     Bold" of document id 34 of application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5", status:not available}
Now I thought of trying the following:
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5"
    set find text preferences to nothing
    set change text preferences to nothing
    --Set the find options.
    set properties of find change text options to {case sensitive:false, whole word:false, include footnotes:false, include hidden layers:false, include locked layers for find:true, include locked stories for find:true, include master pages:true}
    set applied font of find text preferences to every font whose PostScript name is "Helvetica-Bold"
    set applied font of change text preferences to "Helvetica"
    tell document 1
        set myFoundItems to change text
    end tell
end tell
Now this does result in something, the find of the Find/Change dialog is looking for Helvetica + Bold. The only problem with that is it isn't looking for the TT font.
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5"
    set myDocument to active document
    tell myDocument
        set myfind to properties of every font whose PostScript name is "Helvetica-Bold"
    end tell
    set find text preferences to nothing
    set change text preferences to nothing
    --Set the find options.
    set properties of find change text options to {case sensitive:false, whole word:false, include footnotes:false, include hidden layers:false, include locked layers for find:true, include locked stories for find:true, include master pages:true}
    set applied font of find text preferences to name of myfind
    set applied font of change text preferences to "Helvetica"
    tell document 1
        set myFoundItems to change text
    end tell
end tell
And nothing happens.. other than it trying to search for Helvetica + Bold
I'll try some other ideas later when I have more time.

Why is there a missing font called "Ben Pioneer" when it is installed on my pc and works perfectly well with photoshop CS5?

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Why is there a missing font called "Ben Pioneer" when it is installed on my pc and works perfectly well with photoshop CS5?

M5Mike wrote:
Yes the font works fine with Photoshop and office been using it for years.
Illustrator is a lot more pickier about fonts than those two. And Freefonts are known to get into trouble with Illustrator.
From what I can see on Dafont the font isn't a bitmap font.
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unclefester67 wrote:
so the "< >" symbols around the font name is actually just a way of telling that they are "Symbol" fonts. They are in fact not missing or have been replaced?
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I actually have a fairly simple solution to this for Windows 7. Don't mess with your registry or delete other fonts. Go into c:/windows/fonts. Check to see that you have the set of fonts "Segoe UI". Inside this set are 6 Segoe fonts:
Regular (segoeui)
Regular Italic (segoeuii)
Bold (segoeuib)
Bold Italic (segoeuiz)
Semi Bold (seguisb)
Light (segoeuil)
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Make sure programs (i.e iTunes) are closed.
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If you already have them in your fonts folder (my problem) do this: COPY (not cut) them from your c:/windows/fonts folder to your desktop. Close windows explorer. From your desktop, right click each one and "Install". You will get a message that they are already installed and do you want to install a newer version or some such. Say "Yes". They will get re-installed.
Open iTunes and you should have all your text back!
*Based on a sample of one - hopefully it works for you.

Design Premium CS5 is installed but fonts are missing - is there a way to download missing fonts?

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What missing fonts? You need to be more specific.
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Missing Fonts in my inDesign file...

Just recently completed an inDesign file, but it is telling me it has missing fonts. The file was originally started in CS4 by a coworker and completed by me in CS5. I'm confused because the fonts show up in the file, but still are classified as missing. I tried to send this file to print, but they could not print it because of the missing fonts. If anyone could help me out, you would be doing me a huge favor. Thanks everyone and have a great day.

imjimjim wrote:
I understand how to get the fonts to work and I just received the Helvetica font's from him and got those working but the Berthold Akzidenz Grotesk aren't working. They can in a file with a strange icon (a grey box with green letters that spelled out "exec").
This is the one:
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imjimjim wrote:
When I "find first" to see where the missing font is located, its on the first and second pages and it is the background graphics, which I think an outside party designed. If I can't get the Berthold fonts to work, what should I do next?
That's a problem on a different level. Is this in a placed EPS or PDF, or (sigh) even a placed InDesign page? Then it was up to the original designer to embed the fonts used into the image -- or, failing that, convert to outlines (which ought not to be necessary in a moderately modern workflow). About the only way to get it to work is to actually install these fonts on your system as well and hope it's the exact same version.

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Is there an option to have it automatically replace missing fonts with a specified font?
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Windows

Form my understanding you can't replace missing fonts until the document is open. To avoid the missing fonts modal dialog, you can set
app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.NEVER_INTERACT;
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WMF format equations available/missing fonts not displayed/alerted

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function myCheckFont(currFile){
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Hi
I run this script to same documents both CS4 and CS5,
and insert the snippet to check status.
$.writeln(app.activeDocument.fonts.item(loopvar).status);
font status return differnt value!
CS4
missing OpenType Fonts => 1718832705
missing Composite Fonts => 1718834037
CS5
missing CpenType Fonts => SUBSTITUTED (1718834037)
missing Composite Fonts => SUBSTITUTED (1718834037)
mg

How do I find where a missing font was used?

For an example, download the Property Owner Application form from http://www.atlantahousing.org/housingchoice/landlords/index.cfm?Fuseaction=forms
When opened in LiveCycle Designer, I get a message that Kozuka Gothic Pro-VI M (Regular) is missing. I don't see a way of searching for a font in LiveCycle, so I opened it up in Illustrator, thinking I would get a missing font message ... but I didn't. And when opened in regular Acrobat and looking at the Properties > Fonts list, it doesn't appear there either.
It's not causing any problem that I can see, but I'd like to get rid of it. Or maybe this is a font used by the application for some special symbol? Anyone khow to find it, or what's going on?

Hi,
I haven't downloaded the form, but if you can open the form in LC Designer then go to the XML Source tab and do a search there for "Kozu". If the font is used, it will definetly show up in the XML Source. Note that while in XML Source you will be able to look up and down and identify the object that contains the font.
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Good luck,
Niall

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I have lost a few of the fonts I regularly use. They appear in Font Book and are enabled, but they are not available in InDesign. The missing fonts are available to me in other programs (e.g Word) so they are definitely on the system.
I was given advice to check in Home > Library > Application Support > Adobe > InDesign > Fonts, but there is no folder called "InDesign" within the Adobe folder of that path, so I don't know if that was good advice.
Of course (always the way, isn't it?) I've noticed this problem one week out from my deadline to the printer, so would really appreciate resolving it quickly.
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Well, if your goal is to make the problem go away without
understanding it, thus reducing the liklihood you'll understand the
cause and prevent it from recurring in the future...
"Sometimes they get sleepy" is an attitude that really bothers me at a
deep level. Programs shouldn't break. And when they do, we should make
the effort to understand why they do. And report those problems back
to the manufacturers, who should be given the opportunity to fix
them. Even if we think they won't.
Programs break for reasons. Sometimes complicated and tricky
reasons. Sometimes reasons we can't actually figure out. But sometimes
reasons that we can. And we need to take the effort to figure out
why. Or at least try to a reasonable effort.
It is our moral duty. Otherwise the programmers who author the
software will have no opportunity to fix the problems, and thousands
of user across this green earth will be forced to deal with the same
problems we deal with regularly, for years and years, all because no
one was willing to take the minimal effort to figure out what was
broken and why.
Don't lie down and say "oh, it just broken again, I accept that i have
to jump through this hoop to fix it periodically." That's just not the
way it should work, and it doesn't have to be that way.

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