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I am using this tool to generate barcode for ISMNs to apply to music books.
I download them as SVGs and add them to the InDesign files.
Once done, Preflights shows a font-missing error. Upon inspecting it tells me that ARIAL is the missing font.
Of course, ARIAL is installed on my Mac, and the Find/Replace font can do nothing about it, since the issue is just non-existing. The missing font is shown as "in graphic" but I cannot replace it.
Have you ever encountered this issue? What should I do?
Thanks
Open the SVG in Illustrator, find & replace the Font with your Arial and save the SVG again. That's it!
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Important to know is not that this font is on your Computer (as it is within any Microsoft Program), but if it installed for all programs. Therefore I ask again: Where is it installed.
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This is the path as given from Finder:
/System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental
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What happens if you move the font out of supplemental? One level higher directly to fonts?
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While dragging them out, the cursor becomes a forbidden sign.
It seems this folder is a read-only system one.
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It is about permissions.
You can go to your personal font folder, what I recommend and copy there the fonts you want to use to.
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Open the SVG in Illustrator, find & replace the Font with your Arial and save the SVG again. That's it!
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Interestingly enough, Illustrator didn't throw any error.
Replacing font in there worked, though!
Thank you!