Property or method to find missing fonts...

Hi Everyone,
Is there any direct property or method to find missing fonts in EPS doucments in Illustrator CS4 like we do in InDesign. I have tried this by doing comparison of document fonts and application fonts to get missing fonts but it won't work.
Any help would be appreciatable. Thanks in advance.
Regards
Thiyagu

Have you tried a search of this forum… Im sure I posted a work around to this… The simple answer is NO not in the Illustrator DOM you can however read the file as text and the stuff you want is in the Illustrator file comments…

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Adobe InDesign CS5.5 got an error: Unable to retrieve the font's UID from its name.
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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.
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