Document Warnings: Missing Fonts

I just purchased a new MacBook Pro with iWork 08. When I open a Pages template, I get an error message that tells me: "Some warnings occured. Would you like to review them now?"
If I click "Review," then I get a list of missing fonts.
Anyone else have this issue?

Hi Neil,
Welcome to Pages discussions.
Go to Applications>Font book.app double click. Look in there to see if the fonts are truly missing. If they are there click the font then File>Validate Font, file>Validate file. See if this helps you. Sometimes a message stating a font is missing it just needs to be validated.
Hope this helps.
Sincerely,
RicD

Similar Messages

Document Warnings - Missing File REDUX

I have a rather lengthy file that continues to give a Document Warnings notice that a Missing File Type of Description "tilepaperblue-420.jpg".
I actually have a list of some 180 "tilepaperblue-###.jpg" files listed. I'm using a blank template for the file and never used any file "tilepaperblue-###.jpg". I've searched my hard drive for any such file and get bupkis.
Any thoughts?

Besides being kept in places like the iWork application support folder, theme files can also be located within presentations. If you are saving Keynote files as packages, right click on the file and select "Show package contents". For iWork 5.05 you will see a directory called "theme-files". If you receive the warning about missing theme-files, that is probably where they are missing from.
(If you are not saving Keynote files as packages, you can convert them by changing the file extension from *.key to *.zip, then unzip the file, which will now appear as a directory. If you add the extension *.key to this directory, it will become a package that is readable by Keynote. Look inside the package directory for theme-files if you are using iWork 5.05. Otherwise, the theme image files will be scattered among the other files in the directory.)
The first time I encountered this problem I was using a Keynote file that contained content pulled from another Keynote file that was a converted PowerPoint file. I looked into the theme-file directory of the original converted file, and sure enough the "missing files" were there. I copied them and pasted them into the theme-files directory of the presentation that was complaining. The complaints ceased! I have no idea where the files came from originally.

How can a blank document have missing fonts?

I had a document originally created in InDesign CS2 that showed three fonts as missing - it turned out that the missing ones were my attempts to apply Bold or Italic to fonts that didn't include these options. Every time I tried to use Find Font to track these down in CS4, the application would crash. In desperation, I made a copy of the file, deleted all the page content and pastboard items, and deleted all the paragraph and character styles. I even created a new master page and deleted all the others, and did the same for the layers. But it still shows the fonts as missing, with anywhere from 32 to 96 characters per font. Even rebuilding the Preferences didn't work.

The problem seems to me to be with Indesign crashing. It shouldn't do that with the Find Font feature. I would delete Indesign's font caches, which may contain erroneous information. This causes enough trouble that people have created tools for this (Font Explorer has it built in, and there are a few other applications that just do this). It can also be done manually, and I think that technique has been posted elsewhere on this forum.
And I've never heard of problems with designing a document from scratch using the "New" command. I have seen reports of problems using documents that were imported from previous versions of Indesign. So I think you're best off creating a new document that has never seen your problem fonts.

CS4 - Missing Fonts Loader Plug-in?

I apologize if this has already been asked, but I am having difficulty with the missing fonts loader plug-in.
Q: Can some please give me a detailed (step-by-step) instructions for installing this plug in for CS4?
Q: What is this Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Package required for CS 4?
I need some assistance, please.
Thank you very much for any help!

I meant to add this as well.
Missing Fonts Loader Plug-in for Adobe InDesign CS4
The plug-in for Adobe InDesign CS4 is available on the Proxima Software Web site. This plug-in can automatically
activate missing fonts in Adobe InDesign documents.
Missing Fonts Loader Plug In
Product Adobe InDesign CS4 version 6.0
Description Automatic Activation of Missing Fonts
Operating System Microsoft Windows
Requirements Your missing fonts must be located in FontExpert
Groups (visible in the Groups view).
FontExpert 2009 version 10.0.
The plug-in may also work with FontExpert of earlier
versions 9 and 8, but FontExpert 2009 version 10.0 is
recommended.
File Name MissingFontsLoader.pln
How to Install the Plug-in
NOTE
The plug-in for InDesign CS4 requires Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Package
(available on the Proxima Software Web site, http://www.proximasoftware.com/download.htm ).
Copy the MissingFontsLoader.pln file to the Adobe InDesign plug-ins folder:
c:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDesign CS4\Plug-Ins\MissingFontsLoader\MissingFontsLoader.pln
and RESTART Adobe InDesign.
(Where "c:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDesign CS4\" is the folder where Adobe InDesign is installed.)
Using the Missing Fonts Loader Plug-in
This plug-in has an activation option: automatic (recommended) or manual.
Automatic Activation
The Missing Fonts Loader Plug-in loads missing fonts automatically when you open an Adobe InDesign document.
The plug-in searches for fonts in font groups defined in FontExpert. If a missing font is not found in the FontExpert
Groups view, it will not be activated, and the font will be marked by InDesign as a missing font (for the current
document).
3
Missing Fonts Loader Plug-In for Adobe InDesign CS4
In the picture below, the Missing Fonts Loader window shows an empty list of missing fonts for the current
document, because all fonts were activated automatically:
4
Missing Fonts Loader Plug-In for Adobe InDesign CS4
When InDesign opens the document, it may still mark fonts as missing, even though they were actually activated
by the plug-in during the opening of the document. In this case, you may be required to reopen document to let
InDesign know that all missing fonts are now activated.
The font information xml file helps solve this problem. It is recommended to select the Use font information xml
files option. Every time you save the .indd document, the Missing Fonts Loader plug-in will create a small xml file.
This xml file will include the list of fonts used in the corresponding .indd document. When this xml file is present,
the plugin can activate fonts just before the InDesign actually opens the document and searches it for missing
fonts. (You will find the xml file near the Adobe InDesign .indd document on your computer.)
Manual Activation
When the Activate Missing Fonts Automatically checkbox is cleared, the plug-in
does not activate missing fonts when you open the document. You can open the plug-in
window and activate fonts manually.
The Missing Fonts Loader window shows the list of missing fonts in current document:
5
Missing Fonts Loader Plug-In for Adobe InDesign CS4
Click the Activate All button to activate missing fonts.
Important Note
Unfortunately, when missing fonts are activated manually, you are usually required to close the InDesign
document and open it again to let the document "know" that new fonts became available. This is the
disadvantage of manual activation.
6
Missing Fonts Loader Plug-In for Adobe InDesign CS4
Technical Support
Please be sure to enter a correct e-mail address if you wish to receive a reply to your question or suggestion.
Your e-mail address will not be used in any automated subscriptions.
WE REPLY TO ALL CONTACT MESSAGES SENT TO US USING THE SUPPORT FORM OR VIA E-MAIL.
WE GUARANTEE SENDING A HUMAN-CREATED REPLY, NOT AUTOMATED.
Usually we reply within 8 hours, in many cases within 1 hour. The actual amount of time depends on your time
zone. If you didn't receive a reply from us, please make sure you entered a correct e-mail address on the form and
your Internet service provider isn’t using any anti-spam filters that may block messages with embedded
hyperlinks or file attachments.
Support Form on the Proxima Software Web site:
http://www.ProximaSoftware.com/contact.php
E-mail:
[email protected]

Missing fonts in iWork documents

My iWork apps keep giving me missing font document warnings when I launch Pages, Keynote and Numbers documents. This is a problem already reported by many other iWork users but I haven't found a satisfactory solution and I'm hoping someone here can help.
When launching an existing Pages document, I get this document warning:
Here's what I see in the Font Chooser. Helvetica has got some new variants like '.Light Oblique'. What the??
But if I quit Pages and then create a new document, I don't get any warnings. The Font Chooser also behaves as usual:
I've validated my fonts, deleted the font cache, repaired permissions in an attempt to fix the problem with no success. What should I do?

I'd like to add perhaps a slightly different perspective to this problem. I'm a graphic designer and use Insider Software's FontAgent Pro to manage all of the fonts on my machine. I use Font Book only to manage the few system fonts that are necessary to run the OS.
I keep the number of activated fonts to a minimum and regularly clean out the font caches to prevent any problems with all of the design apps that I use. I've done this for years and haven't experienced any font-related problems for a long, long time.
When I want to use Helvetica/Neue Helvetica (which is rarely), I use PostScript Type 1 versions of those fonts. I don't want to reinstall the dfont version of Helvetica, because that will create conflicts with the fonts in my commercial work.
Whenever I open or create an iWork document I get the Missing Font error mentioned in this thread. The new version of iWork lets me select a substitute font, but my choice never seems to "stick." Once I close the document and reopen it, the same message reappears. iWork seems to assume that every document must use the dfont version of Helvetica/Helvetica Neue, regardless of what I want.
Why can't I specify what font I'd like to use, and have it become the default for all of the iWork apps? Until Apple fixes this problem the whole suite will have to remain shelfware and I'll keep using Office. I'd prefer to use iWork, but at least Office doesn't insist on nagging me about my font choices.
SB

Missing Font, But Font Isn't In the Document

Hello,
We're all using FrameMaker 10 on Windows 7.
My client and I are receiving the good old missing fonts error message, specifically:
The "ITC Stone Serif Std Medium Ital Italic" Font is not available.
It will be replaced by "Times New Roman Italic".
The "ITC Stone Sans Std Semibold" Font is not available.
It will be replaced by "Times New Roman".
First, the fonts are installed.
Second, Remember Missing Font Names is turned OFF. (Unchecked, cleared, etc.)
Third, the fonts are NOT in the document. I have saved the document as MIF. I have searched for the font names. Nothing. When I open the MIF file in FM, I don't get an error. But I save it as a .fm file, open it, and I receive the same error messages.
We don't use these fonts. We don't want them in our documents. I'm doing a massive clean up to get rid of old formats. About half of the files do not have any problems, but half do. I have tried everything:
- Generating a list of fonts. If the fonts are found, then I go in and manually apply the Default Para Font. Usually, doing this removes the font from the list of fonts. However, I still get the messages.
- Importing formats from a known good file.
- Editing the MIF, to the point of removing the entire paragraph, character, font, and table catalogs. (I started by deleting references to ITC Stone x, then went on to the more drastic measures.)
- Changing the default printer.
- Copying the text and pasting it into blank files based on known good files.
- I tried editing the maker.ini file to substitute fonts directly, but that didn't work. I may have been doing that wrong, though.
I've got over 10 years of FM experience, and I've never encountered a font problem that editing the MIF couldn't fix.
All of the documents came over from Frame 6. They're all in the same book.
We need to be able to work on the book file as an entity, without having to open the files that contain errors and leave them open.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thank you very much!
~Robyn

I found the problem, but I'm not sure why it was a font problem to begin with:
Unresolved cross-references.
FM couldn't open all of the files in the book. Therefore, it couldn't update cross-references. It "thought" cross-references were unresolved.
I figured this out by deleting one page at a time from a Bad file. Then, I deleted one paragraph at a time from the Bad pages to determine that the cross-references were causing the problem.
I was cleaning up the book - deleting paragraph, character, cross-reference, table, and conditional text formats and master and reference pages. I then imported formats from a known Good file. The more files FM could open without errors, the fewer font errors I received. After I was able to generate/update the book, the font errors were gone.
Some of the font calls were on a reference page that was found only in select files. However, one would think that would show up in the MIF.
My best guess is that FM couldn't update the cross-reference formats without updating the cross-references, so it "thought" the text was still in the wrong font. That begs the question: Which came first, the unresolved cross-references or the missing fonts?
Of course, it doesn't explain why FM was complaining about a font that is installed.
Thank you everyone who took the time to answer. I'm sure this won't be the last time I run into this problem, and now I'll have a lot more knowledge for next time.
~Robyn

See a list of all the missing fonts in document?

Ive been sent a Photoshop document by someone but some of the fonts are missing.
If I double click on a layer that is missing a font Im told what the font is. This can be time consuming so is there a way of seeing a list of all the missing fonts in a document?
thanks

Ann,
In Acrobat Pro 9, go to: File --> Properties... --> Fonts
I recommend that you ask further Acrobat questions in the Acrobat forum where those pros hang out. Thanks.
Neil

Find the Missing font text content in indesign document

How to find and get the missing font content in the indesign documents by using the SDK. give a tips and techniques.
Anybodys help me.

It wont answer your question, but you could have this problem too:
I have a problem in my current project where text frame having no text make the document report the usage of a font wich we dont want the project to use (times by exemple). The problem being that Indesign report usage of a font wich is in fact not applied to any text. Weird!
The easy fix is to identify those items (text frame class + no text) and reassign them as "unassigned".

On Pages 09. Error Message "Missing Font" - text on all my files/Documents has disappeared. I know it is still there from the word count - but it is invisible. Any clues Gratefully received.

On Pages 09. Error Message "Missing Font" - text on all my files/Documents has disappeared. I know it is still there from the word count - but it is invisible. Any clues Gratefully received.

What version of Pages '09?
Have you updated it to the latest iWork '09 v4.3?
Peter

Removing/substituting a "missing font" from a document

Hey all!
I removed some unused fonts from my system, and now some of my Pages documents raise up the "missing font" error on opening, although all styles used in the document use the fonts that are in the system. Perhaps some of the blank paragraphs may have "traces" of those old fonts.
So is there a way to do a "substitute font" procedure? Or do I have to manually select all paragraphs and make sure the style they use is based on an existing font?
Thanks,
Artemiy.

Artemiy,
check this posting, where Dale Gillard published an AppleScript to change missing font names by other names: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=2212786#2212786
If this information is useful to you, please mark it as "helpful" or "solved" using the little buttons in the titlebar of this message. Thank you.
PowerBook G4 17", 1GB Mac OS X (10.4.8) iMac G5 20"; iPod 3G, iPod Shuffle, iSight

Missing fonts not identified in open documents

Adobe documentation states that when a document is opened that uses uninstalled fonts, a message will identify the missing fonts and offer to use font substitution. This is not what happens when I open such a document in Photoshop CS3. The warning message does not identify the missing fonts, nor can I click the offending text to get this information because font substitution happens automatically before the file is opened. The result is that I have no idea, in some cases, which fonts are missing. This is incredibly dumb!
How can I get Photoshop CS3 to tell me which fonts are missing? Thanks!

Unfortunately, Photoshop DOES substitute fonts. My files most definitely never specified Myriad Pro (which is what all the type in these documents has been converted to) or anything even remotely resembling Myriad Pro. What Photoshop does not do is provide a way to specify the font substitution settings at all.
As for Suitcase, it has its limitations; but honestly, I am unimpressed by every one of the font management programs out there. I have not had activation problems with Suitcase Fusion in the past, but who knows? Maybe I'll have better luck if I try to open my files in Photoshop CS. Thanks for your feedback!

Missing Fonts on a pages document

I just opened a Pages document that I have opened many times before and it said error occured - aril Mt and and another arial MT bold of some sort font is missing.
I have never goofed with any fonts errors since I went to Macs maybe 6 years ago. It says to add it to your folder or just ccancel or continue.
how do i add it? where do i get it from and what folder do I insert in into when i find these 2 fonts?
Why did this happen?
I am stumped.
This is on a powerbook 12". I have not been able to check my macbook pro yet.
thank you.

I tried to summarize previous comments on this subject and ended up with this:
Pages can be very picky about fonts, even fonts you do not visibly use in a document. It is for example possible that a Style you do not use contains a font that is missing. It may also be part of a bullet list.
* Use Applications > Font Book to make sure you really have all the fonts that Pages complain about. If you do not, get them.
* If you think the missing fonts may come from MS Office you can go to Mactopia to download a test drive, which will install the fonts.
* If you think the missing fonts come from Pages, reinstall Pages.
* In Font Book, highlight the fonts Pages complains about, and go to File Validate, to make sure they are ok. Make sure there are no duplicates active.
* In the Finder, highlight the files of the fonts that Pages complains about. Drag them from the Fonts folder to the desktop and then back again to the Fonts folder.
* You can also try Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility > Repair Permissions. (To be honest, I do not think I have ever heard of this actually fixing any problem, but it is theoretically possible.)
* Some people have reported solving the problem by "cleaning" the document saving it to another format. Try for example saving your Pages 2.0 document as Pages 1.0 and then reopen it. Warning! You may loose formatting here, so keep the original as back up.
* Restart.

Missing fonts between synced documents

Hi, there!
I having missing font messages in Indesign documents that are synced via Creative Cloud Files. Both computer have these "missing fonts" installed and as far as I know they are not corrupted (i.e. can be used normally).
At first I thought that it was an issue caused because the versión of the font installed as it happened only with Font Awesome (an ever updating icons font). I downloaded and installed the most recent version of the font on both computers and the issue wasn't gone. Now it's happening with another font: ITC Officina Sans. I don't know what is going on, Anyone?
Some helpful facts:
- Computers involved: iMac 2012 and Mac Pro 2014 both using lastest version of Yosemite
- Indesign: lastest version installed, same with Adobe Creative Cloud desktop client.
- Problem only happens on synced files via Creative Cloud
- Font affected are not from Typekit
- Only happens on a huge project so far (We have been working on it for a long time so don't know if other projects may be affected)
- The project consist of a book and over 20 docs. Docs range from 6 to 50 megas in file size.
Thanks!

See Font Management in OS X, for starters.

Document warnings: font substituted ...

Hello,
When I open an .iba file allways receive Document warning:
- The font "Baskerwille-SemiBold" was substituted for the missing font "Baskerwille".
If clear this message and reopen the book, the same message brings up again.
I didn't use Baskerwille font at all. I can't find where it is used in the book. Please help how can I ignore this warning.

You may be able to call Apple support and ask them directly. Is your country in the following group?
Global Phone Support
We have expanded English-language publisher phone support. To make contacting the iBookstore support even easier, new local phone numbers are now available for Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, and the U.K. Support is available Monday to Friday, from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. (PT).
Country
Phone Number
Australia
1300 307 504
Note that this is a low tariff number.
France
0805 540 117
Germany
0800 664 5307
Italy
800 915 902
Netherlands
0800 0201 578
Spain
900 812 687
U.K.
0800 975 0615
U.S.
+1 (877) 206-2092
Toll-free from U.S. and Canada.

Installing missing font during document opening

Hi All,
I have a requirement of installing the missing fonts in a document when the document is opened.
I have used the kMissingFontSignalResponderService to handle the missing font.
Because InDesign API does not provide any facility to install font, I have used the Windows API for the same.
When I get the missing font signal, I install the font using the ttf file and then broadcast the WM_FONTCHANGE message.
The problem is that I am not able to get the IPMFont instance of the just installed font. I require that instance to call the SetRequest(IPMFont*) method of IMissingFontSignalData. But I never get the instance for the recently installed font. Using methods like QueryFontByDisplayName in IFontMgr to get the IPMFont instance returns null for the installed font.
The font is indeed installed correctly but I am unable to notify the font manager about the new font.
Can anyone shed light to solve this issue?

Hi Andrew,
I tried ForceUpdateFontSystem too. Yet I do not get the IPMFont instance. Seems like the font manager is still unaware of the installed font. The font is indeed installed but the missing font alert appears once. If I open the document again there is no missing font alert as the font is indeed installed.
Can you kindly put some more inputs?

Document Warnings: Missing Fonts

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for