Suppress missing font alert

[dcroatt]

Hi! When I drop in word docs, I get interrupted by a stupid missing font alert. This is especially frustrating when I'm dropping in 20 documents and it takes 10x as long because I have to keep OKing all those stupid alerts. I can't figure out how to turn them off. Any ideas?

Again, just to be clear, I am not having font issues in any way. Fonts are perfect. Just need to hide the alerts about how a stupid word document has some random font that I don't have in it.

Thanks!

[Barb Binder]

Hi Dcroatt:

There isn't a specific command for this in InDesign, although you could request it here: Wishform - Adobe InDesign

It may be possible via scripting. You could ask here: InDesign Scripting​.

Otherwise, working within the current InDesign feature set—you could:

• Edit the Word files to remove references to fonts you don't have;
• Install the fonts you are missing; or
• Edit InDesign's Import options to Remove Styles and Formatting from Text and Tables, including local overrides (but note that local overrides includes the removal of bold, italics, etc on words within a paragraph).

~Barb

[dcroatt]

Thanks Barb! Appreciate the response.

• I think editing the Word files would take a lot longer than accepting the error message.

• I am not missing any fonts.

• This is not an option, as I do want the styles and formatting in most cases.

I don't understand why Adobe feels the need for unremovable pop-up warning in this case. Who would ever care that they were missing a font that a word document uses? Pretty stupid.

[Barb Binder]

Hi dcroatt ,

I can't begin to explain what the thought process is over there.

I can tell you that telling us (the other users on the forum) won't get you any closer to what you want. Use the first link on my earlier response to post your thoughts on the user voice page so that the Adobe InDesign team will see it, and consider coming back here to post a link to your feature request, so that others who run across this thread can link over there and vote it up.

~Barb

[winterm]

This simple javascript will let you open file without ANY warnings (not only about fonts), but - unfortunately - only one file at a time. You can't select multiple files like in a default ID's Open dialog, so not a Big Saver.

As Barb already suggested, you should ask in Scripting Forum for more.

var file = File.openDialog("Open InDesign document", "Documents:*.indd");
app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.NEVER_INTERACT;
app.open(file);
app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.INTERACT_WITH_ALL;

[Laubender]

Hi winterm ,

it's not about opening InDesign documents.

It's about importing Word files.

I guess, changing the userInteractionLevel will do nothing to supress the font warnings in this case.

I quote Jerermiah Swanson from 2010:

I'm using Adobe InDesign CS5 and even with the UserInteractionLevel set to NeverInteract i kept getting the "missing fonts" modal dialog box.

Well, it is a relief I finally figured out a way to get rid of the dialog box. What i actually did was to into the extions manager for CS5 and removed the "Font Usage Dialog" plugin. This worked like a charm! No more missing fonts dialogs.

The reason I am able to do it this way is because I do not ever want to see the missing fonts dialog, this might not be the case for other users.

Source: Re: From a Modal Dialog, Run a Script

Regards,
Uwe

[rob day]

It's about importing Word files.

Hi Uwe, I just tested this AppleScript, which has a place command wrapped in turning interaction on and off and it worked:

tell application "Adobe InDesign CC 2014"
    set myFile to (choose file with prompt "Please select a file to place") as alias
    set user interaction level of script preferences to never interact
    set w to active page of layout window 1
    place myFile on w
    set user interaction level of script preferences to interact with all
end tell

[Laubender]

dcroatt  wrote

… I don't understand why Adobe feels the need for unremovable pop-up warning in this case. Who would ever care that they were missing a font that a word document uses? Pretty stupid.

Hi dcroatt ,

what is your version of InDesign?

What's your operating system?

A possible solution at your own risk*

To get rid of that all, you would have to remove the Font Usage Dialog.InDesignPlugin .

Don't know if that's possible at all with newer versions of InDesign without risking stability of the app or other functionality you would need and miss after removing the plug-in. FWIW: In older days one could remove this plug-in with Adobe Extension Manager that would list all plug-ins of Adobe InDesign, also the core ones.

The plug-in is listed under:

Plug-Ins > Text >

*Source from 2010:

Re: From a Modal Dialog, Run a Script

Regards,
Uwe

[Colin Flashman]

Would Peter Kahrel's place docs script be of any assistance?

Place documents | Peter Kahrel

If the workflow is such that the author retains complete control of all formatting and the font warnings are "false-flags", I can see how that would be a frustration. In my circumstances as a commercial printer, the dialog is a necessary evil that assists with due diligence. When receiving artwork from another party, it can be vitally important for items such as artwork that contains foreign languages, formatting books with math equations just to name a couple of instances.

[valentin496]

You can suppress the error by changing your preflight profile, which determines what kind of checks are performed. To do that, go to "Define Profiles ..." in the Preflight panel, deselect "Text > Font missing", and click "Save".