Finding Unassigned Glyphs

[PeteBaumgartner]

If we import or enter a text code (e.g. a Katakana character )  for which a font has no Glyph, then Indesign will display an x'd rectangle.

Is it possible to find/scan for these with a script?

Thanks !

[PeteBaumgartner]

Peter.

Thanks - works well !

pjb

e.g.,

4 Unassigned Glyphs in Myriad Pro

Regular

十   21313  U+5341

分   20998  U+5206

な   12394  U+306a

利   21033  U+5229

--done--

[Peter Kahrel]

There's a bug that prevents the script from working with font styles other than Regular (and probably Roman). The problem is that doc.fonts.name returns e.g. Times ItalicItalic and Helvetica BoldBold. The workaround is to change this line:

app.findGlyphPreferences.appliedFont = doc.fonts.name;

with these two:

app.findGlyphPreferences.appliedFont = doc.fonts.fontFamily;

app.findGlyphPreferences.fontStyle = doc.fonts.fontStyleName;

Peter

[David W. Goodrich]

I'd only tried "regular" font styles, and didn't have occasion to notice the regular/roman bug, so I really appreciate Peter K.'s going back and ferreting this out. For those who know even less about scripting than I do, I got his fix to work in the code presented earlier in this thread by adjusting the three "doc." references in his before and after lines to "myDocument."

David

[PeteBaumgartner]

Peter

Thanks !

Pete

[Peter Kahrel]

Pete,

This is the only way I can contact you. Hope you don't mind that I tarted up the script based on your excellent method with an interface and posted it on my site at http://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesign/missing_glyphs.jsx

Peter

[MattHK @ AIM]

This is the best, juiciest addition to my InDesign workflow ever. Thanks so much Peter 🙂
I work with a lot of text books with Japanese and Chinese content. Our editors will often type script into a line of text (using InCopy) without the correct script font selected and I end up with 400pp+ docs riddled with these annoying, tiny pink boxes. Your script fixed this in minutes. Brilliant.

[PeteBaumgartner]

That's great

Glad to help.

I merged that script into our CopyFlow Gold extension at napsys.com

All the best,

Pjb

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[crazyPanda]

Hello,

there is a problem when I run that missing_glyphs.jsx script in Indesign CC 2018 / Mac OS 10.13.6: it will not find any missing glyphs on master pages. I tried to modify that script by including app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeMasterPages = true; like this:

app.findGlyphPreferences = null;
app.findGlyphPreferences.glyphID = 0;
app.findGlyphPreferences.appliedFont = docFonts.fontFamily;
app.findGlyphPreferences.fontStyle = docFonts.fontStyleName;
app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeMasterPages = true; // <- new line added
found = app.activeDocument.findGlyph();

but still it will not find missing glyphs on master pages. Is there another solution for this?

Greetings

[Laubender]

Hi crazyPanda ,

do your includeMasterPages on findChangeGlyphOptions.

Regards,
Uwe

[crazyPanda]

Hello Laubender​

it works now.

Thank you very much.

Greetings

[daitranthanhoa]

      oIndesign.FindGlyphPreferences = 1851876449

        oIndesign.FindGlyphPreferences.glyphID = 0

        oIndesign.FindGlyphPreferences.AppliedFont = oDocument.TextFrames(1).Characters(13).appliedfont.name // 小塚明朝 Pro

         Dim oFind As Object = oDocument.FindGlyph()

If set   oIndesign.FindGlyphPreferences.glyphID = 0 :FindGlyph() not return value

If set   oIndesign.FindGlyphPreferences.glyphID = CID of oDocument.TextFrames(1).Characters(13) :FindGlyph()  return value

Font name is Japanese

Font name is English ,It is ok.

[projectsd88043538]

I modified your sceript to make it work in CC2019

var myDocument=app.activeDocument;

$.writeln('--Looking for missing fonts in ' + myDocument.name + '--');

var allFound = [];

var numFonts = myDocument.fonts.length;

for (var z=0;z<numFonts;z++) {

allFound = [];
app.findGlyphPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.findGlyphPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.findGlyphPreferences.glyphID = 0;
app.findGlyphPreferences.appliedFont = myDocument.fonts[z].name;
allFound = app.findGlyph ();

if (allFound.length>0) {
$.writeln(allFound.length+ ' Unassigned Glyphs in ' + myDocument.fonts[z].name );

for (var y=0;y<allFound.length;y++) {
$.writeln(allFound[y].contents+ ' ( ' +allFound[y].contents.charCodeAt(0)+')' );
}
}
}

$.writeln('--done--');