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Cozmicone
Inspiring
May 14, 2014
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Find the name of missing fonts

  • May 14, 2014
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I'm opening a file created by someone else that is no longer with my organization and since they were using a font that I don't have installed, the font is defaulting to another font. The computer they used to create the file has already been reformatted I have no way of loading the file on their computer to see what font they were using. Are there any tricks to find out what font was being used?

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    Correct answer Lilybiri

    I'm afraid there will not be a way to detect if you don't have a published version. Captivate never embeds fonts (file size is probably reason).

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    justindancer
    justindancer
    Participant
    April 11, 2018

    Hi there,

    Some time has passed since this question was answered. I'm hoping that there is maybe a new solution? I am on Captivate 10 / 2017.

    I'm encountering the same problem today (opening an old Captivate project on a new computer) : How can I identify from within the Captivate project the name of a missing font that is, in its absence, defaulting to another ?

    Whatthefont fails to identify the font.

    I see the lovely typekit missing font integration in illustrator. How to do the same in Captivate?

    Many thanks,

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    CozmiconeAuthor
    Inspiring
    May 17, 2014

    I saw the project right before the designer left and I know that it wasn't using the font Batang. As the project wasn't completed, a published version of the file was never created.

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    CozmiconeAuthor
    Inspiring
    May 16, 2014

    I can't use WhatTheFont because the font is defaulting to another font within Captivate. I don't have a published file, just the Captivate file.

    Lilybiri
    LilybiriCorrect answer
    Legend
    May 16, 2014

    I'm afraid there will not be a way to detect if you don't have a published version. Captivate never embeds fonts (file size is probably reason).

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    CozmiconeAuthor
    Inspiring
    May 16, 2014

    Unfortunate. I was hoping that there was possibly a way to view the raw data from the file in a text editor that would let you know what the font name was.

    Captiv8r
    Captiv8r
    Legend
    May 15, 2014

    There is a service that you can use called WhatTheFont.com where you

    supply an image of some text and it will analyze it and report back the

    possible font.

    Cheers... Rick

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