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tlmurray23
tlmurray23
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February 9, 2024
Question

How to set a default font to replace a missing font?

  • February 9, 2024
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InDesign 19.1 on Mac with Sonoma 14.2.1

 

With no document open, I set the Character panel and Paragraph Styles > Basic Paragraph > Font Family to Georgia. Now, when I exit InDesign and relaunch, a new document defaults to Georgia. So far so good.

 

The problem is that when I open a doc missing a font, the default family is Minion Pro. How can I change that to Georgia? 

 

I was sent about 60 small files, and I really don't want to do them one at a time. (To be fair, I do have Keyboard Maestro.)

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    rob day
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    rob dayCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    February 9, 2024

    Hi @tlmurray23 , Without a script I think the best you could do is use Replace Fonts... rather than accepting Minion as the substitution

     

    James Gifford—NitroPress
    James Gifford—NitroPress
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    February 9, 2024

    I'm not sure you can. Minion Pro is ID's default-default-default font and its first go-to in all cases.

     

    I'd suggest using prefiltering like Favorites etc. to make selecting Georgia easier in each case. This is probably scriptable as well, but I'm quite well known here as being anything but a script guy. 🙂

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