Re: Will type 1 fonts currently in the Adobe Fonts library be converted?

Hi BeKind,

let's see into your screenshot.

I guess the first one is from the Type submenu Find font… , that is able to list all used font styles of a particular document. The panel says Type 1 Fonts: 23. InDesign could be absolutely right if you are using InDesign version 17.2.1.105. But be aware, that the listed font styles are used ones. Paragraph styles and character styles that are currently not used in the document are not inspected!

The marked ones with the a and the yellow triangle are indeed Type 1 fonts that are used in your document. They are not missing. I cannot tell from your screenshot if any font styles are missing. Missing ones would show up like that, with that big yellow triangle:

Substituting them with the ones you activated with Adobe Fonts can be done, but it cannot be done automatically. Not at all. Why? Adobe Fonts has the Pro version like Caecilia LT Pro 55 Roman for example and your document is using PMN Caecilia 55 Roman. Can you see the difference in the naming scheme? Adobe Fonts will not even claim to try a substitution if your Type 1 font files are not installed and listed as missing.

You have to substitute them style by style with the Find font… panel using the functionality there to also change and update the styles in your document where they are actually used. Or you are writing a script that is doing this.

Possible strategy if you know your document very well:

Depending on the number of paragraph styles and dependencies between the styles in your document it could be wise to create at least one paragraph of text formatted with every paragraph style of your document. Also use all character styles before substituting font styles.

Prepare for changes in text composition after substituting the font styles.

Best thing to do first:

Export a PDF/X-4 pdf file before doing anything else.

With not doing color conversion or downsampling images.

With that PDF you would be able to do a visual comparison of text composition using a placed PDF ( the original ) with the live text in the same document after the font styles were substituted.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Professional )

Thank you

Hi Test Screen Name,

hard to understand where the point is here. A new thread that perhaps was branched out from another one.

With an answer that is starting the thread to someone in a different thread.

What reply did you answer?

Why should InDesign be confused?

Is there a concrete sample where InDesign is messaging a Type 1 font style with PMN Caecilia where there is none, because the font style was activated through the Adobe Fonts service?

What font style of PMN Caecilia exactly?

Can remember that some styles of PMN Caecilia were part of Adobe Font Folio that originally had Type 1 font versions for some of the OTF fonts as well…

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Professional )