Font

[BISHISTAX24263177s7m8]

Adobe shows Pink boxes when I use Preeti font. It replaces a character. Seems fine when I use other software but always error occurs when I use Preeti font in Indesign.

[Manan Joshi]

What is your InDesign and OS version. This could be an issue reported recently in 17.1 and 17.2 version of InDesign. See the following link for more details

https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/44970238-installed-font...

If this is your case as well then please update to version 17.2.1 that seems to have the fix for the issue.

-Manan

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

This may be one of two things. There is a general font bug in 17.1 that has baffled many users by having InDesign ignore one or a few fonts—but the fonts are different for almost every users. Skim the forum and you'll see endless entries for "InDesign not recognizing [font name]" etc.

Since your setup is recognizing the font in general, this looks more like Preeti maybe be lacking a specific glyph. In English, I see this mostly when I use symbols or glyphs in a pro or "broad" font that do not exist in more compact fonts (with only the basic glyphs).

Simple test: open Preeti and any equivalent font in a font viewer and see if that glyph exists. If it does, do a simple test in another app (Illustrator or a word processor) to see if the glyph appears correctly. If it's only InDesign that won't show this glyph in Preeti, it may be addressed by the 17.2 fix.

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[Brad @ Roaring Mouse]

Since you mentioned it's not happening in other porgrams, you might have a text attribute, e.g. ligatures, active on your ID paragraph style that is interfering.

[Brad @ Roaring Mouse]

Also, is it replacing one specific character? and what should it look like?

[Joel Cherney]

There are a few likely causes. I looked at your screenshot, so I can verify it's not the font bug that other posters are talking about. You have only one glyph dropping out, not the whole font. I don't read Nepali, so I can't really even guesss what glyph is missing. There are a few possibilities:

1) Did you type this yourself? If not, it could be a case where someone who was typing couldn't find a particular font on the Preeti keyboard, so they actually used a different glyph from a different font with a different encoding. But if you typed this, you'd already know that you didn't type that glyph in Preeti 🙂 so this is only worth investigating if you didn't type it yourself.

2) There are a few characters that InDesign tends to use internally that don't work with pre-Unicode fonts like Preeti. I've seen this in many SE Asian fonts that predate Unicode, as they used all kinds of bizarre tricks, like assigning glyphs to codepoints reserved for other purposes (like spaces or hyphens or anything at all, really, above 128 in ASCII encoding).  The fix here is to figure out what's dropping and where it's hiding, so what I'd suggest that you do is:

a) Go to Type -> Glyphs to open up the Glyphs panel

b) Use the Type tool to select the pink box

c) Hover your mouse over the highlighted glyph and let the little mouseover window tell you its Unicode name

d) Come back here and tell us what its Unicode name is:

This is a screenshot from a Karen job I did in KNU font, and the character I'm hovering over simply won't display in this font in InDesign, because the people who made the font wound up using a codepoint that wound up assigned to the soft hyphen. However, like Preeti, KNU was made back in the early 1990s, before complex-script languages had decent support in page layout programs.

[Brad @ Roaring Mouse]

I looked up Preeti font and found two online: Preeti and Preeti Heavy. The one called Preeti Heavy matches your screenshot, but based on a comparison between the two in a font editor, Preeti Heavy is missing two characters. One is a diacritical, but the other is this one:

If this is the character that should be in your pink box, then you have a bad font.