Making missing fonts dialog copy/pastable

When I open an .ai file and am missing the fonts, the dialog that pops up showing the missing fonts doesn't allow me to copy and paste the information from that dialog. This would be incredibly useful for designers/developers in communicating to eachother the assets needed.
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Hi everybody,
I need to avoid the showing of dialog listing the missing fonts during the opening of a document.
I would like to do the same with the missing/modified image dialog.
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I haven't played with my fonts in ages. Suddenly, iWeb claims "Papyrus - Regular" is missing. It's not, in fact it is duplicated. To remove this warning, I placed it in every Font folder on my system - No Luck! I deleted all duplicates and then I moved it into each of the Font folders, one folder at a time - No Luck! I had the FontBook check out every font, and all are good. I have restarted my system several times - No Luck!
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I create and manage several websites using iWeb, thinking it will save me time, create better looking pages, and make them easier to update. But all of the iWeb projects have displayed this error at one time or another. The fix was to drag the font into the font folder within the user's library, but this time it didn't work.
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I have a Photoshop document which uses some Fonts that I don't have on my Windows PC. When I open the document, I get a Dialog Box called "Missing Fonts", which states:
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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?
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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.
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List missing fonts in Illustrator

Hi all,
I've been working on a script to try and build a list of font's that not loaded in Illustrator. I know that Illustrator will alert missing fonts when a document is opened but this routine will be part of a larger script that will have the user dialogs turned off. My process is to build a list of fonts that are available to the the application, then build a list of fonts that are used within the active document and cross reference them to see if there are document fonts that are not in the application fonts list.
I have used a great function that I believe was posted originally by Moluapple and with some some brilliant advice from the always helpful CarlosCanto I thought that I had found the soultion but it appears to have some limitations. If I get a list of fonts available to the application and the document that I want to cross reference them against is open, the list that's returned contains fonts that are used in the document. Then when I get a list of fonts used in the document and cross reference them they will all be in the application list regardless of whether they're loaded or not.
The only way that I can get accurate results are if I run the script without any documents open and build a list of application fonts, then open a document and build a list of document fonts and then cross reference. This is the only way I can find out what fonts aren't loaded.
Does anybody know of another way to build a list of missing fonts without having to close documents first? I have searched through the XMP data and this doesn't seem to give me any clues and I've tried writing the code in applescript but it appears to work in the same way. Any help or comments would be welcome.
Here's my code:
#target illustrator
var doclist = app.textFonts
var appFontList = new Array ();
for (i=0;i< app.textFonts.length; i++){
 var fontName = app.textFonts[i].name;
 appFontList[i] = fontName;
var myfile = File.openDialog ('Choose a file');
app.open (myfile);
var docFontsList = getUsedFonts(activeDocument);
// function accredited to Moluapple
function getUsedFonts (doc ){
 var xmlString = new XML(doc.XMPString);
 fontsInfo = xmlString.descendants("stFnt:fontName");
 var ln = fontsInfo.length(), arr = [];
 for (var i = 0; i<ln; i++){arr.push(fontsInfo[i])};
 return arr;
var missingFontsList = checkFonts();
alert(missingFontsList);
function checkFonts(){
 var fontArray = new Array ();
 for (i=0; i < docFontsList.length; i++){
 var thisDocFont = docFontsList[i];
 var activeFont = false;
 for (j = 0; j < appFontList.length; j++){
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 if (thisDocFont == thisAppFont){
 activeFont = true;
 if (activeFont == false){
 fontArray.push (thisDocFont);
 return fontArray;
Many Thanks,
Nik

Mark,
you are a legend!!!!
with yours and Carlos' help I think I have raged against the system that is Adobe and come out victorious!!!!!!!!
I Finally have a script that doesn't tell me lies.
Building a list of fonts that are available from InDesign, then building a list of fonts that the active Illustrator document is using and comparing the 2 lists I've managed to locate the fonts that aren't active. I'm sure the script could have some fine tuning but hopefully it might help others who just want to know if fonts are missing before creating a PDF that contains false font information.
Thanks again all,
Nik
#target illustrator
var docFontsList = getUsedFonts(activeDocument);
// function accredited to Moluapple
function getUsedFonts (doc ){
 var xmlString = new XML(doc.XMPString);
 fontsInfo = xmlString.descendants("stFnt:fontName");
 var ln = fontsInfo.length(), arr = [];
 for (var i = 0; i<ln; i++){arr.push(fontsInfo[i])};
 return arr;
//////////////////////////////////////////get a list of available fonts using Indesign///////////////////////////////////
var bt = new BridgeTalk;
bt.target = "indesign";
var msg = "app.updateFonts();var fonts = app.fonts.everyItem().postscriptName;obj = fonts.toSource();"
bt.body = msg;
bt.onResult = function(resObj) {
 eval("var idFontlist = " + resObj.body);
 doSomethingElse(idFontlist);
bt.send();
function doSomethingElse(idFontlist) {
 appFontList = idFontlist;
var missingFontsList = checkFonts();
if(missingFontsList.length > 0){
 alert("List of missing fonts:\n" + missingFontsList.join( '\r' ));
else{
 alert("There're no missing fonts!");
function checkFonts(){
 var fontArray = new Array ();
 for (i=0; i < docFontsList.length; i++){
 var thisDocFont = docFontsList[i];
 var activeFont = false;
for (j = 0; j < appFontList.length; j++){
 var thisAppFont = appFontList[j];
 if (thisDocFont == thisAppFont){
 activeFont = true;
 if (activeFont == false){
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