Report on fonts from batch of documents

Question

Hi, does anyone know if there is a script that can go through a folder of a thousand indesign files and create a report (with two choices) of what fonts are used. Choice 1: Just a list of fonts have been used without repeating what fonts have been used... so if "Times Roman" has been used on 30 indesign files the report only mentions "Times Roman once. Choice 2: A list of file names and what fonts are used in each file.
Cheers, Tim

Answer 1

Error you were getting wasn't caused by missing font, it's maybe damaged font or something else.
Array.prototype.unique = function (){var i, a = {},r = [],n = this.length;for( i=0 ; i<n ; ++i ) a[this[i]]=1;for( i in a ) r.push(i);return r;}
if(app.documents.length == 0){
    fontReporter();
}else{
    alert("Please close all documents!","Font Report Creator");
function fontReporter(){
app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.NEVER_INTERACT;
// write report to file
var writeReport = function(myData, myFile){myFile.open ('w'); myFile.encoding = 'UTF-8'; for(var d = 0; d < myData.length; d++)myFile.write (myData[d]); myFile.close (); }
// collect info from document
var createFontReport = function(){
    var myDoc = app.documents[0];
    var myDocFonts = myDoc.fonts;
    var myDocName = myDoc.name;
    myFonts.push("//// Font report for file: [ " + myDocName + " ] ////\r\r");
    for(var f = 0; f < myDocFonts.length; f++){
        if(myDocFonts[f].status == FontStatus.INSTALLED){
            var myString = String(myDocFonts[f].fontFamily + "\t");
            try{myString += myDocFonts[f].fontStyleName + "\t";}catch(_){myString += "[ error reading ]\t";}
            try{myString += myDocFonts[f].location + "\r";}catch(_){myString += "[ error reading ]\r";}
        }else{
            var myString = String(myDocFonts[f].fontFamily + "\t");
            try{myString += myDocFonts[f].fontStyleName + "\t";}catch(_){myString += "[ error reading ]\t";}
            try{myString += myDocFonts[f].location + "\t";}catch(_){myString += "[ error reading ]\t";}
            myString += "[ " + String(myDocFonts[f].status) + " ]\r";
        myFonts.push(myString);
        myFontsAll.push(myString);
    //myFonts.sort();
    myFonts.push("\r//// Fonts used count: " + f + " ////\r\r\r");
    var myFonts = [];
    var myFontsAll = [];
    // open/report/close
    var myFolder = Folder.selectDialog("Please select a folder containing the InDesign files.");
    if(myFolder == null){alert("No folder selected!","Font Report Creator"); exit();}
    var myFolderContents = myFolder.getFiles("*.indd");
    if(myFolderContents.lenght == 0){alert("No InDesign files in folder!","Font Report Creator"); exit();}
    for (var i = 0; i < myFolderContents.length; i++) {
        app.open(File(myFolderContents[i]), false);
        if(app.documents[0].saved == true)createFontReport();
        app.documents[0].close(SaveOptions.no);
    var myReportFile = File(myFolder + "/" + "Separate document report - Font Report.txt");
    writeReport(myFonts, myReportFile);
    // complete report
    myFontsAll = myFontsAll.unique();
    myFontsAll.sort();
    myFontsAll.unshift("//// Font report for folder: [ " + myFolder.fsName + " ]////\r\r");
    myFontsAll.push("\r//// Fonts used count: " + (myFontsAll.length - 1) + " ////");
    myReportFile = File(myFolder + "/All [INDD] Documents Font Report.txt");
    writeReport(myFontsAll, myReportFile);
app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.INTERACT_WITH_ALL;
alert("Font reports created!","Font Report Creator");
Hope it will work fine for you now.
tomaxxi
http://indisnip.wordpress.com/