Font Not Found.

[AJDValien]

Hi there,

Running InDesign Server with a front-end that takes imported IDML files and creates a print ready .pdf. Something I noticed is that sometimes a font is missing and I get the error message from InDesign server about this. It doesn't affect the .pdf output (except for the missing font but it substitutes it). Is there a way that when an IDML file is imported that the fonts are passed to the InDesign server to process? Or do I have to install all the fonts on the server instead?

Just trying to figure out what's the best way to do this.

Thanks.

~Allen

[Peter Schuelke]

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[2i_Geert]

Hi,

As far as I know, you have to install the font (just copy it to the InDesign Server "font" folder).

[Peter Schuelke]

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[Manan Joshi]

InDesign documents do not support font embedding, and fonts are not embedded in IDML. So there is no way you can send the fonts in the IDML file. But you could look into <Font> tag in the IDML to get the font used in the file, and then if the font is missing from the server installation place the font into the Fonts folder present in the Indesign Server installation location. Fonts placed in this folder are loaded by Indesign without requiring to restart it.

So you could alter your workflow to send a zip which contains the IDML file and the fonts used in the document, then checking whether all the fonts used in the doc are present in the server, if they are not present then copy the fonts from the zip into the Indesign fonts folder.

Manan Joshi

www.metadesignsolutions.com

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[AJDValien]

Manan,

Perfect answer. That helps a ton. Appreciate the quick responses.

[Peter Schuelke]

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