Recognize Font Substitution has taken place

Is there a way using the Illustrator API that I can tell if substituted fonts exist in a document after it is loaded.

If you have a font manager (I'm guessing you don't), you can just turn fonts on and off. Without one, you have to remove fonts from Windows (Start>Control Panel>Fonts), but make sure you have a copy of the file before removing anything.
However, the fact that it is Arial Greek may mean the problem is something else and not a simple case of two Arials being active at the same time. Do you get a missing font message in ID?

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Minor correction of project data has taken place (1)

Hey peeps,
Last night i finished a track in Logic all mixed and everything done. I happened to close Logic after i had finished with everything. When i re opened the project i was working on a message came up saying "Minor correction of project data has taken place (1)"
The only option to click is "Ok" so i clicked that and after i do that it says "Warning! Project may be damaged" and again the only option to click is Ok so i clicked that....
When the project opens there is nothing inside it, Logic seems to have wiped everything within the project!
I checked my Project File Back Ups folder and they all do the same thing...
I honestly feel like crying!!!!
If anyone knows what's gone on please help me because after all those hours of work my project is now not opening!
Please please help.
Thanks.

I'm really sorry for your troubles and hope you won't loose all your work.
If this is a bug (and you are not the only one who has this problems as I can read on this forum) you should tell Apple Feedback!
But why on earth don't you guys learn how to make backups!!!!
Say you start a project, call it:
Song build-up
Record your guitar and save as:
Song Git1
Song Git2
Cut:
Song Edit 1 (Editing MIDI)
Song Edit 2 (Cut Audio)
Mix:
Song Mix 1
Song Mix 2
Song Mix 3a
Song Mix 3b alternative
You would have a backup of every stage of your work!! Takes 15 seconds to save under another name!
Eddie

Font Substitution with PDF Place

I am trying to place a PDF. When I do so Illustrator substitutes fonts, creating a mess.
Is there any way to specify the font replacements to be used.

You can force-embed fonts in Acrobat, if the typeface allows. Also set your prefs to favor appearance over editability in AI to retain the rendered appearance as in Acro.
Mylenium

Groovorio has taken place of Firefox; I have tried "uninstall;" now Groovorio is not on the program list; how do I get Firefox back and kill Groovorio? program

Groovorio penetrated my computer, has burrowed in. When I try to call Firefox, Groovorio appears instead.
I tried the Uninstall command in Control Panel, Programs and Features. Now, the name Groovorio has disappeared from the list of programs, but it continues to replace FIrefox.
I wish to get rid of Groovorio.com and to get my Firefox setup back to where it was before Sept. 25.
This may be relevant: I first noticed Groovorio soon after I installed "iLivid", which was presented as necessary to optimize communications with a college course website.
Mozilla has presented correctly educated guesses about my current browser and operating system.
Mozilla has presented me a list of installed plugins. I do not know whether Mozilla wants me to verif that list; I have been unable to do so.

Step one;
Sometimes a problem with Firefox may be a result of malware installed on your computer, that you may not be aware of.
You can try these free programs to scan for malware, which work with your existing antivirus software:
* [http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/default.aspx Microsoft Safety Scanner]
* [http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free/ MalwareBytes' Anti-Malware]
* [http://support.kaspersky.com/viruses/disinfection/5350 Anti-Rootkit Utility - TDSSKiller]
* [http://general-changelog-team.fr/en/downloads/viewdownload/20-outils-de-xplode/2-adwcleaner AdwCleaner] (for more info, see this [http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/ alternate AdwCleaner download page])
* [http://www.surfright.nl/en/hitmanpro/ Hitman Pro]
* [http://www.eset.com/us/online-scanner/ ESET Online Scanner]
[http://windows.microsoft.com/MSE Microsoft Security Essentials] is a good permanent antivirus for Windows 7/Vista/XP if you don't already have one.
Further information can be found in the [[Troubleshoot Firefox issues caused by malware]] article.
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My father has itunes account for ipad and my mother for an iphone my father has taken over iphone and needs to link it to his account

my father has itunes account for ipad and my mother for an iphone my father has taken over iphone and needs to link it to his account

iTunes will need to be set up on your computer however you can set up a new Apple ID to use for your iPhone. Really all you need to do is Assign a new Apple ID to your iCloud account.
Follow the link to create a new Apple ID: https://appleid.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MyAppleId.woa/
After you do that, on the device you want to assign a new iCloud account go: Settings > iCloud > Delete Account and then sign in with the new Apple ID.
NOTE: This does not effect iTunes, all of your devices can continue to use one shared iTunes account under your original Apple ID for downloading apps and backups. This simply gives iCloud a place to sync the individual devices information and will stop iCloud form merging all the information, such as contacts, with all of your devices.

Font weight has no effect in legend in flex 4

Font weight,Font size has no effect in legend in line chart. Also i have trouble with date time axis.What should i do about it

Good question. That is the funny thing! With echo %classpath% everything seems to be o.k. But not one of my java editors will recognize this package. When I use this package on my other computer (XP Home) everything will be recognize correctly.
The only way for me was to kill alle entries in all classes which are defining the package name. But this solves my main problem only temoprarry.
P.S. Sorry , English is not my native language ;-).

Font substitution for Times New Roman? Why is Adobe doing this?

I'm using Adobe Acrobat Pro version 9.2 to read pdfs created by a number of different authors. I'm running Windows 7 64 bit OS. These are NOT pdfs I have created. Some of these pdfs display an incorrect font substitution for Times New Roman and I can't figure out why. In the File/Properties dialog the font property comes up as Times New Roman, True Type, ANSI encoding (Times New Roman has spaces between the words). This font is not embedded. Adobe Sans MM is the font that my Adobe 9.2 substitutes for it, even though I have a true type Times New Roman already installed in Windows.I have installed all updates for both Acrobat and for Windows. If I select the text touch up tool to look at the text, a box comes up saying that the original font is not available and a substitute font will be used. When I look at the drop down box for fonts in Adobe, I see among all of the various fonts available, TimesNewRoman without spaces, but no Times New Roman with spaces. Does this matter?
When I go to my Windows Control Panel Fonts screen, I see a Times New Roman truetype font available (with spaces, the same as the font the document is requesting). It says OpenType Layout, Digitally Signed, TrueTyepe Outliers. I use it all the time.
What is required to get Adobe 9 to display this font? It looks like the document is asking for the font I have available on the system and Adobe 9 Pro just isn't identifying it. These same pdfs display just fine on Adobe Acrobat Standard 7.0 on another Windows 7 64 bit OS machine. Is there a separate font library that Adobe has independent of the Windows font library and I simply don't have a complete set of fonts for my version? I don't have the option to have the authors recreate their documents. And they display just fine on an older version of Adobe on a different machine.
UPDATE: Adobe 9 required more than one update. I did the 300 mb update and the problem described above was still there. I checked again just now for updates, and there was another one. This one, whatever it was, fixed the font substitution problem. So the moral of the story is... update, then update again, and keep doing it until there are no more. Adobe doesn't say "there are xx updates available." You just have to keep on asking for them until it says 'no'.

The font Radioactive is the problem. It has an incorrect internal name that conflicts with Times New Roman. Delete Radioactive and ban it from any Mac you use.

Font substitution.

I'm on an iMac running 10.4.11 and have updated to Acrobat Reader Version 9.
I'm receiving PDFs from a colleague whose originating document is using Courier font.
When the PDF is opened on my system the document's Courier font has been substituted with font: Adobe Sans MM as detailed in the Properties file of the document. Adobe Sans MM does not appear to exist withing my system.
The originating system is a PC running Vista. The PDFs are created using: doPDF.
The font substitution does not appear within the originating system.
Any theories?
Terry

> Adobe Sans MM does not appear to exist withing my system.
Adobe Reader includes this font.
>
>The font substitution does not appear within the originating system.
System font substitutions aren't involved. Adobe Reader makes its own
font substitutions. Adobe Sans MM and Adobe Serif MM are special
"mulitple master" fonts used to sythesise a font of the right spacing
(but not necessarily the right look) when the font is neither embedded
nor available.
Aandi Inston

IBooks author font substitution problem

Hi
Ive now been using IBA for a month or so and have to say its a frustrating piece of software.
This is my latest issue that i cannot resolve.
Ive been building a book for 2 weeks which is at the publishing stage and then all of a sudden when i opened it this morning it tells me that a font is missing and substitues it.
But the font is there and i can change everything back by appending the style sheets. Then if i save and close then reopen it tells me the font is missing again.
I do use Suitcase Fusion but have taken the step to put the fonts i use in IBA only in Font Book as .ttf's.
Also if i open the file on my Macbook, there is no font substitution and the book displays correctly even though the fonts in Fontbook are the same ones as on my iMac.
(Pulls hair out)!!!!
Anyone have any ideas??

Yes its been working fine in all preview tests on my iPad and others in the company.
Plus my Macbook is a carbon copy of my iMac (i use CCC to clone the iMac HD)
Someone suggested that the two ways to change fonts in IBA causes some differences, apparently the top left dropdown menu when selecting fonts only show whats available for embeding and the drawer you get by clicking the 'A' in the top right shows all the fonts on your system.
Still cant figure it out!!

PDF/A and font substitution

I've embarked on a mission to scan, download, or otherwise capture all of my records as PDF files. It seems reasonable to me that I want to save them as PDF/A when possible so that they will look exactly the same 20 years from now as they do today. (Of course, that significantly increases the size of the files. But bits are cheap.) My problem, of course, is that many of the documents I am acquiring (for example, statements downloaded from financial institutions) use fonts that I don't have installed on my computer, so I can't convert them to PDF/A.
My question is: Do I really need (or want) to convert documents to PDF/A? Assuming the document doesn't rely on some non-standard font I just happen to have installed on my PC, and the font substitution magic works well enough today to give me a perfectly acceptable document, then can I rely on it working just as well 20 years from now? Can I rely on font substitution in other vendor's products producing similar results? Is there anything in the PDF spec that constrains font substitution to producing something similar to what the Adobe products do today?
TIA - Bob

BTW, I tried printing a PDF to the PDF printer with the Default Settings option set to "Press Quality" and I got this:
%%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%%
%%[ Error: Helvetica-Narrow not found, using Font Substitution. Font cannot be embedded. ]%%
%%[ Error: typecheck; OffendingCommand: cshow ]%%
Stack:
-mark-
{--pop-- --pop-- ct_str1 --exch-- 0 --exch-- --put-- ct_str1 --show--
{_ct_na _ct_i --get--} --stopped-- {--pop-- --pop--} {_ct_x _ct_y
--moveto-- 0 --exch-- --rmoveto--} --ifelse-- /_ct_i _ct_i 1 --add--
--def-- --currentpoint-- /_ct_y --exch-- --def-- /_ct_x --exch-- --def--}
%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
%%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%
I tried printing a PDF to the PDF printer with the Default Settings option set to "High Quality Print" and it created a new PDF file. All of the pages in my original document, which were landscape orientation, became portrait orientation in the new document. But otherwise I can't see anything obviously different between the two. In particular, the list of fonts is identical between the old and new documents. That is, the new document has the same embedded fonts and the same non-embedded (and still missing) fonts.

Strange font substitution

Hi there,
I am using a MacBook Pro with OSX 10.5.2. It has suddenly started to have problems with the fonts in fontbook and also doing some very strange font substitutions.
Instead of showing text normally it is replacing it with random characters. You can kind of read it but it's not real letters. I have a screenshot of it but don't know how to post the image on here.
This substitution is happening in Mail, Preview and Safari, so seems to be with native OS X software.
Any ideas?

Hi Simon,
Have you gone to FontBook and resolved duplicates?
Create a new account, name it "test" and see how your fonts work in that User acct? (That will tell where your font issue is coming from - whether it's in your Home fonts folder or a system fonts folder) This account is just for test, do nothing further with it.
Open System Preferences >> Accounts >> "+" make it an admin account. Check your fonts in that account and let us know the result.
Also, have you disabled Helvetica Fractions, Helvetica Neue and Times Phonetic, if you have them? They are known troublemakers.
Here is a user tip by Kurt Lang that lists all necessary system fonts and their locations. Also installed fonts and their font folders and loacation from Apple.
-mj
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BearShare has taken over browser page. How do I get rid of it?

I stupidly download BearShare. I have uninstalled it in all the usual places but it has taken over the firefox opening page of Google with a BearShare one. The problem is not on the laptop I am using but on a new Acer laptop with Windows 7. Help!

The safest and most thorough way of cleaning it out of your system is to download Revo Uninstaller, run it in advanced mode and press delete all when prompted. Do NOT go messing about in your registry unless you are a real expert. The other way is to go into system restore and tell your computer to restore to a date & time before you downloaded Bearshare. Just remember that any software you installed since that date will be deleted so back it up first. Good luck. Bearshare is a pain in the Jacksy!

[SOLVED] Infinality patchset font substitution

OK, I decided to test the infinality patchset for my fonts, rather than the ubuntu patches I was using, and by and large I could be happy, but for one very annoying problem.
My preferred desktop font is DejaVu Sans Book, but no matter how many times I try to set it, it gets changed to Verdana. I'm guessing that somewhere Verdana is set up in font substitution, but I can't for the life of me find it.
The same happens if I try to set the terminal font to DejaVu Sans Book, though setting the terminal to DejaVu Sans Mono works (which is what I prefer in a terminal anyway).
I've done my research - but if I'm honest there doesn't seem to be that much documentation around.
Last edited by Roken (2012-08-19 23:25:53)

Roken wrote:
Ahh - thanks guys. You got me looking in the right place. The pesky substitution was in 41-repl-os-win.conf
Now fixed
Pretty sure that if you change your infinality style to "Linux" it uses DejaVu Sans (or doesn't replace it). By default, it uses "infinality" as the style, purely because I like it and that's the one I use. See /etc/fonts/infinality/infinality.conf (assuming Arch uses that).

Arial font substitution for (LabVIEW for) Linux

Hello,
as LabVIEW was not capable of keeping the font size and spacing constant when running a VI under different Windows versions, screen resolutions etc, I have never used the "application", "system" and "dialog" font options in LabVIEW but have fixed all fonts to Arial 14 pt. This worked wonderful on all Windows systems - without that unnerving problem that control lables overwrite each other and things like that (what always happened when using LabVIEWs "application" font option).
Now, when running the same VIs under LabVIEW for Linux, the font looks terrible, as there is no Arial font in Linux. Does somebody know an easy way to solve this problem without setting all fonts to "application font" in LabVIEW? For instance, any "ini file type" setting in Linux telling the operating system which font to use when Arial is not present, or any free font substitution that we could add to our installer routine that the operating system would use automatically instead of Arial?
Best regards,
Gabs

Unfortunately, your problem is a version of a generic problem faced by GUI programmers of all types - how do you handle varying system fonts? There are various solutions, based on who your customers are. You are using one of the easy ones that works well until you start doing cross-platform development. The main options are, in order or increasing complexity:
Lock the font to a specific font and size. This works well if your customers are limited to a single platform and are not visually impaired (do not want to use large fonts).
Use system fonts and allow extra space. This is a compromise that only works in most cases. Use about 50% extra for small strings and 10% - 20% for larger strings. This also gives you extra space for localization, should you need it. Visually impaired customers will run into space issues, because large fonts can be 2X or more larger than the default, system fonts. Note that the different Windows variants have different font sizes as well. Windows Vista increased default font sizes, especially for some Asian languages, such as Japanese.
Query the font size on entry into a GUI VI and rescale everything appropriately. This is hard, since it must be done for every VI with a GUI. Some system dialogs do not handle large fonts well, so you will probably end up replacing them with your own versions to get good appearance. You could probably write a system to handle this sort of scaling, but to my knowledge, no one has (please prove me wrong ). I have always used custom code when needed.
No one really does this well. Change your system font on a Windows OS to large fonts and note all the problems you run into. I would recommend option 2, unless you have a lot of extra time. Your customers will love you if you pull off option 3.
More tips to help.
Do your development on the platform with the largest system fonts. If this is not possible, change the LabVIEW system fonts of your development system to match the largest size you support. I usually develop using 13pt Verdana, since it is one of the largest of the variable spaced fonts.
Check your work by using large fonts in Windows. If it looks good there, it will probably be OK for most uses.
Good luck!
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Turning Off Font Substitution

How do I turn off font substitution on my HP PSC 1110 Printer? There is no place on my computer to do this.My printer prints out differently than what I see on my monitor and I looked up the info on this and directions told me to "turn off font substitution " and "download as soft font".I am running Windows XP Home Edition and I cannot find any place on the computer to set these options.Can anyone please tell me how I can do this so my printer will print the same as what I see on my monitor?

Well they did get it correct, except they are now using Open Type to do so, It works very well with Open Type which gives you a lot of options for this support as well.
And it is probably not going to happen for Type 1 as i=they are not made and had more problems then does Open Type.

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