Find text set in a certain font?

I sometimes emphasize with italics, in Id this means I select the word and select the italic version of the font. Or at least, that is what I did a few times in the past. But these days, I have a character style that sets the character style to slanted. I know, I have one or two instances left in the text where I selected a different font and in one case even accidentally the italic version of a wrong font.
Is there a way I can find (any) text set in a specific font?

Sure. Use Find Text!
(You probably need to press the More Options button, for the very first time, to get the Find Formatting box.)

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Cannot Select Text That Use Certain Fonts

I have some PDF files where I cannot select the text because they use certain fonts (monotxt for example) when I change the font to Arial and recreate the PDF, then I can select the fonts for copy and paste. My question is how to add fonts that Adobe can recognize for selection.

The fonts are invisible to selection. I cannot select them at all. I do have the license for these fonts. I did some further tests and found that it only happens when I make a PDF from my AutoCAD application and use the monotxt font type. I guess it could be a problem with the AutoCAD application and the creation of the PDF and not the Adobe Reader.

Can't find text in distilled file, using some fonts

The products I have are Mac OS 10.6.8, Acrobat X and 9, and Word 2011 and Apple Pages for Mac; Acrobat 9 and Word 2007 for Windows XP.
There are numerous ways to create PDFs on both platforms, whether through save as or creating a PostScript file and distilling it. The problem is that with docs I have using Calibri, Cambria, and Candara, if I distill a PostScript file made from Mac Word or Pages, neither Acrobat nor Apple Preview can find text in the resulting PDF, whether the file distilled with Mac or Windows Distiller. (Meaning a "find" for a string comes up as not found.) All other combinations are okay, even writing a PS file in Windows Word and distilling with Mac Distiller.
I mention the fonts specifically because most of the time I use OTF faces, which always work. I even tried using the Windows TTF versions in the Mac operating system -- same failure.
And even if I force these fonts to be embedded in the Distiller job options, still no joy. If I take so much as a comma and set it to an OTF, I can find the comma. Also, Acrobat *can* find Arial text in a Visio flowchart placed in the Word doc. I don't know how the author placed it there, but it's probably copy from Visio, paste into Word.
The reason why I care about this is because the distilled PFDs are just a tiny bit better looking on the screen than other options, such as "Save as PDF" from the Mac OS Print dialogue. The only other one that looks as good is the Create PDF button in Windows Word, but I would rather not have to use Windows just to get a better-looking PDF.
So to summarize:
Mac app > write PS file > Mac Distiller = fail
Mac app > write PS file > Win Distiller = fail
Win app > write PS file > Mac Distiller = okay
Win app > write PS file > Win Distiller = okay
Mac app > save as PDF directly > okay
This might not be a problem with Distiller per se; it could be the Mac OS engine that creates the PS files. You see, I had heard that Apple used their own internally developed engine for the options to save PDF files directly, but was using Adobe code when one used the option to write a PostScript file, so that's why I'm so surprised and disappointed it fails.

tlmurray23 wrote:
The reason why I care about this is because the distilled PFDs are just a tiny bit better looking on the screen than other options, such as "Save as PDF" from the Mac OS Print dialogue. The only other one that looks as good is the Create PDF button in Windows Word, but I would rather not have to use Windows just to get a better-looking PDF.
Hmmm. In what way are Distilled PDFs "a tiny bit better looking on screen" than those made by OS X?
You are viewing both in the same app and platform?
And you're referring to font display?
What settings are you using in Distiller which you think might have some bearing on this?
tlmurray23 wrote:
This might not be a problem with Distiller per se; it could be the Mac OS engine that creates the PS files. You see, I had heard that Apple used their own internally developed engine for the options to save PDF files directly, but was using Adobe code when one used the option to write a PostScript file, so that's why I'm so surprised and disappointed it fails.
OS X's native graphics drawing environment, Quartz, is essentially a "Display PDF", so creating a PDF file is a very simple procedure.
Writing PostScript for printing uses Apple's own cgpdftops CUPS filter. I doubt there is any "Adobe code" as such, and I dispute the implication that "Apple code == bad; Adobe code == good", which you seem to suggest.
The specifications for PDF and PostScript are clearly documented, and it should be easy for anyone to follow them.
However, the fact remains that when Apple converts these MS fonts to PS, something goes wrong. It may be a bug in Apple's code; or it may be that Apple it strictly interpreting font data which MS is playing fast and loose with. Windows' own PS export would no doubt be designed to work with the looser implementation in MS's fonts. This is just hypothetical of course, though is in keeping with tradition.
What you could do is use a decent text editor like TextWrangler (free from BareBones software) to compare the PostScript code from Windows and OS X.
You could also look a the Properties tab in Acrobat of the PDFs, and compare the font encoding.
You could also test running out PostScript from any other app on OS X that you have using those fonts.
However, I think it is unlikely that you will see resolution unless MS releases a new version of their fonts, or some new version of OS X makes an amendment to fix the bug or cater for the MS issue. Perhaps Lion will do this; perhaps it won't.
Are you using the versions of these fonts that came with Office 2011 for Mac? What happens if you use the Windows versions of the fonts on OS X?

I have created an editable PDF via Adobe Indesign. When I open the PDF in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC, is there a way to specify a font style? Or is there a way in InDesign to make sure when someone type in that text field it is a certain font?

I need to make sure the text that is entered is a certain font to keep it continuous with the rest of the document. Thank you!

To go into form editing mode, select "Prepare Form" in the right hand pane. You'll then get a toolbar along the top that contains the various form-related tools. The first thing to do is add a temporary button. You'll use this to determine the name of the font for use with the script as well as place the script that will change the font properties of the text fields. So create a button anywhere, double-click it to bring up the field properties dialog, and on the Actions tab add a JavaScript action to the Mouse Up event that is:
// Mouse Up script for temporary button
app.alert(event.target.textFont);
On the Appearance tab, select the font that you want to use for the text fields. Once you've done that, close form editing mode and click the button. It will display a popup that will list the font name. This may be different than the name that appeared in the dropdown on the appearance tab, so write it down. For example, when I chose "Minion Pro" from the dropdown, the popup showed "MinionPro-Regular".
The next step is to replace that Mouse Up script with the following:
// Mouse Up script for temporary button
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Replace "MinionPro-Regular" with the font name that you wrote down before and set the font size to whatever you want. Use 0 to specify a font size of "Auto".
This script will change the font of all text fields to whatever you specify. When you've confirmed that the text fields are set up as you want, you can go ahead and delete or hide the button. If you think you'll be doing a lot of forms work, you can create custom tools in Acrobat to speed up this process, but this should get you started. InDesign won't let you specify a lot of field properties and actions, so you have to work this way, and using automation scripts is an accessible way to significantly speed up the process and avoid mistakes.

Flash Text not displaying certain fonts

Thanks as always…
I am trying to use Flash text for some headings, but after an
hour of pulling my hair out I've just realised it will only display
certain fonts, such as Helvetica etc.
I added the font I want to use to my font list but it still
does not display…
I'm using MX on OSX 10.3.9.
Any ideas? Thansk.
Flash Text not displaying certain fonts

Fodderstompf wrote:
> Thanks guys,
>
> I don't have Flash MX and it turns out the font is a
Postscript Type 1.
>
> Didn't realise about the true-type thing, bit of
nusiance (and completely the
> opposite of the hassle I normally have with print
work!).
>
> I'm gonna look and see I can get a true-type version of
the font (Tabitha), or
> is there any other work around?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
Is your text in a dynamic text box, or static text box in
flash?
I don't think the issue concerns the "true-type" or not
"true-type" font.
In Flash, when text is part of a dynamic text box (which I
assume is the case in your situation),
then the font works just like in an html page:
if the font is installed on the computer it will show, if
not, it won't. The way around this, is to
embed the font data in the authoring flash file, and link it
to the dynamic text box, via actionScript.
So if you cannot work on the authoring Flash file with Flash
MX or Flash8, and if indeed we're
talking about a dynamic text box, your only option is to use
a web-safe font.
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Finding a certain font?

I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, but is there a program available for the Mac that can find a certain font that is selected or on the clipboard?
I have this pdf open in Chrome and it has a nice looking font and I do not know what font it is.
Thanks in advance.

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How come a font set at a certain pixel size is not actually that size when you measure it's height? For example, a font set at size 24 pixels is actually only 16 pixels tall (cap height).

How come a font set at a certain pixel size is not actually that size when you measure it's height? For example, a font set at size 24 pixels is actually only 16 pixels tall (cap height).

Hello, indeed, as Semaphoric stated, the Em box is not the same as the Cap heigh...
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THis article has good images also that illustrate the em square: Font Bureau Blog | The Em

Find text based on its font "Bold"

Hi,
I want to find the content based on its font bold.
I dono the syntax to find conent based on font.
Please any one help me on this.

Hi,
Thanks for your respose. I used the below code as you said, but it shows the below error as in Image.
var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
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Printing to PDF-text is changed because of font

I've been trying to print files to PDF, but everytime I do so using the Segoe UI font, the text is distorted into a jumble of letters in a different font. Is there anyway to prevent/fix this? Included is an image of a test PDF I created for this post. The top line was written in Segoe UI.
System Info:
Windows 8.1 OS
Office 2003
Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional, included with Adobe CS3

If you use ctrl-D you can check the embedding of the fonts. I suspect the font is not embedded and is not being displayed correctly as a result. You might try using the Press or Print job settings that try to embed all fonts and see if that resolves the problem.
I suspect the problem is related to running AA8 on WIn8.1. However check for the embedding of the fonts. Also check to see if you are set to use local fonts or not (you may have to go to the manual under help for AA8 to find out how to select "local fonts." I am not near my AA8 machine right now. I tried everything I could with AA9 and Win7 to create the problem. I made a WORD file that looked like your's and printed to the Adobe PDF printer. I could not get the problem to come up. I do have the Segoe UI on my system. The result I got is shown below:
I even did this with the Smallest file size and with/without local fonts selected. The only font embedded was the Courier.
As I said, I suspect the Win8.1 installation. Have you updated Acrobat to the latest version to try to maintain the best compatibility possible with Win8.1?

AcroPDF in VB6 - Find text in PDF and print that page.

Okay, so I'm certain that this question has been asked and answered a hundred times, but for some reason my googling skills are seriously failing me today...
I have a legacy application built in VB6 that generates PDF documents of a particular form letter. Each PDF contains all of the form letters that were printed on that particular day. I actually have it all working rather decently, but something came up a little while ago that set me on a new programming obsession. I want to enable the following functionality from my application:
The user provides a text string that should be unique among all pages of all PDF's (customer ID).
The application then finds the PDF that contains that text string and identifies which page number contains that text string.
Finally, send only that page to the printer.
Currently I can easily create, display and print the PDF from my application. While the creation of the document is done through a third-party reporting system, all display and printing functions are basically handled using AcroPDF.dll. Going through the available properties and methods for an AcroPDF object, I see that I can tell it to print only specified pages, which gives me the last part of my requirements, and I've got the user input part down pat. I'm just totally stumped at finding a solution for "step 2".
Any suggestions, ideas or comments would be greatly appreciated. I'm kinda tired of banging my head against a wall. Thank you for your time.

If you are only using Adobe Reader, then that feature isn't available.
If you have Adobe Acrobat, then you have a few options.
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Subject: AcroPDF in VB6 - Find text in PDF and print that page.
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LJ Pro200 M251n not printing certain font sizes

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Update the latest firmware for the printer, that should resolve a such.
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Browsing fonts causes certain fonts to dissapear - cs4 11.0.1

When text is highlighted in a document and I attempt to change to a new font by clicking in the "set font family" dialogue box so I can scroll through my fonts, certain fonts will make that dialogue box, while scrolling with the arrow keys, go blank and stop the ability to browse through all my fonts I have activated.
I had no problem with CS3 and CS4 11.0 when i would previously do this but now that i have upgraded to 11.0.1 I seem to be having this problem.
Can anyone help or is anyone having the same problem.
Thank you.

When text is highlighted in a document and I attempt to change to a new font by clicking in the "set font family" dialogue box so I can scroll through my fonts, certain fonts will make that dialogue box, while scrolling with the arrow keys, go blank and stop the ability to browse through all my fonts I have activated.
I had no problem with CS3 and CS4 11.0 when i would previously do this but now that i have upgraded to 11.0.1 I seem to be having this problem.
Can anyone help or is anyone having the same problem.
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AppliedFont not working for a certain font

Hello all,
a small but strange problem here. that only exists with a certain font. a shortened version of the script (as it pertains to the discussion) is here. It loops through paragraph styles looking for certain values and changes them:
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With it i get the error that the system cannot find the font i want. It even wont work in this case:
app.selection[0].appliedFont = "Yakout Linotype";
HOWEVER, if I select a piece of text and change that piece of text to Yakout Linotype using indesigns GUI and THEN run the script, the script works without a flaw.
anyone know why a font would have to be present in a document for the script to call upon it. Or why that doesnt seem to be the case with other fonts, ONLY Yakout Linotype. Thanks!
Edit: "Yakout Linotype" is the fontFamily, Ive tried using fullName and fullNameNative.

I'm guessing: does "Yakout Linotype Regular" exist as a font style? If not, that's the problem -- you are trying to change the Myriad Pro in "Myriad Pro Regular" to Yakout, but it has no "Regular", and at that point the script fails. You can change both the font and the font style in one go by using "Yakout Linotype\tLight" as the argument to appliedFont -- with a [Tab] between the font family and style name.

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In addition to what it did before this will save the serial number and validation code to a file 'FailedBatterySerialNumbers.txt' on your Desktop. I added the name of the file that the serial number came from. Figured you might want to go back and reference the original file.
The file looks like:
Untitled 2.txt
serial-number    4H6230BBVTH
Battery Validation Code    NBD-75B1770F-02
Untitled 2.txt
serial-number    4H6230BBVTH
Battery Validation Code    NBD-75B1770F-02
enjoy, regards
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saveData(aFile)
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                              display dialog "saveData: string not found in file:" & return & aFile
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