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Question

Font weight mapping?

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
January 25, 2018
3 replies
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This is the problem:

I have a fornt (Univers) with those fancy "55 Roman" etc weights. And I have fonts with "Roman" weights. I would like now for both fonts attribute ONE character style like BOLD, mapping in the same time "Bold" and "65 Bold". the use is obvious. I have both fonts in my document and I want to have only one character style for BOLD, CONDENSED, ITALIC etc.

Is that possible?

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@mj

Community Expert

Set up a Style sheet with the correct parameters
Under Find Format, choose Bold or 65 Bold from Basic Character Formats.
For Change Format, Choose your style you created in step 1 from Style Options.

Based on your screenshots, it will need to be a Character Style.

HTH

A

Anonymous

I hope I understood your problem correctly.

You can create a new character style with the only property "Bold". (No text/textframe selected!)

IF the font family's meta-informations are properly set by the font designer,

THEN select the character(s) > click the "Bold" character style > InDesign applies the matching bold font face, if available.

If not available you get an error message and the background is dyed pink.

All this is independent of the displayed font name. In my example the "regular" font face Univers55 is called "Univers Medium" and it is changed to Univers65 = "Univers Bold".

Fenja

PAWUAuthor

Inspiring

Correct. My only (theoretical) option so far is to patch the font meta data.

Steve Werner

Community Expert

Have you looked at the license for your font? It's quite possible that that's not permitted.

vladan saveljic

Inspiring

There are several ways to do that.

- Type > Find font

- Select font that you want replace (for example Univers Roman") and then in "Replace With" choose "Univers LT Std" in Font Style choose "55 Roman".

- Tick "Redefine Style When Changing All"

- click "Change All"

PAWUAuthor

Inspiring

Thanks for your time to answer. I appreciate that. But that does not solve the problem. I have different fonts in one document and I need those different fonts in one document. I only want that BOLD is BOLD, whether it is called "65 bold" or "bold" or whatever the font designer called it. The same is true with "italic" and "oblique".

I do not have a problem redefining a style, when I change the font for a document...

vinny38

Legend

I hate to say it, but I'm afraid there is no possibility to have a single character style "Bold" in your case.

You'll have to create different character styles. Sorry about that...

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