Text is not placing in indesign

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October 12, 2017
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the Question is i am copying some text from web sit and pasting it in indesign and that text is coming like this ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? or

and i am putting both screen short plz help me in this also.

Copy from this site

and pasting in indesign

plz help me in this

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ajaytbhosleAuthor

Participating Frequently

Thank you for this help but i have gone through above procedure and i have downloaded that font also even though the text is not visible

So please help me to come out from this problem waiting for u r replay.

Monica Singh

Adobe Employee

Hi Ajay,

I have tried to check for the Helevatica and Helevatica nue font, i dont see this any such glyphs, hence missing font. Please try with some hebrew/arabic fonts which can have these glyphs

Thanks

Monica

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smoothsea

Inspiring

Hi,

I would suggest that the font that is active in the text frame that you are pasting into does not support the characters that you are using. Note the pink highlighting which means the font is missing. If you can change the text to the correct font your characters should appear.

Regards,

Malcolm

Jongware

Community Expert

It is not the missing-font pink highlight, it's the missing-glyph pink highlight. There is a huge difference: a missing font can be trivially fixed by installing that missing font -- as InDesign helpfully tells you the exact name -- or by replacing it with a similar one. For missing glyphs, however, you must manually hunt down any font to contain the missing characters. For those, InDesign doesn't tell you any more than "nope, not in this font; please try another".

It looks like OP would benefit from some politely yet firm pointing out a good starters' guide, something like Sandee Cohen's "Visual Quickstart for [insert your version here]" perhaps.

(Ah -- how do I know it indeed marks "glyphs" and not "fonts"? Because the visible digits and the "missing glyph" glyph look suspiciously much alike those from the default font for new documents: Minion Pro. One could assume the 'right' font got copied for the wavy text (in which case it may also be missing) but then the digits would be in that font as well. Unless the web page uses Minion Pro, which is far less likely than a simple user misunderstanding, per seigneur Occam and his shaving implements.)