How can I see where this font is being used?

[Document Geek]

I am trying to locate instances on Minion Pro Regular. According to the Find/Replace Font dialog box, it is used on 12 different pages, in a total of 19 characters. But when I click on "Find Next", nothing happens.

I tried do a Find for [No Paragraph Style], but that came back with no results. How can I see actually where this font is being used?

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

You have limited your search to texts with "[No Paragraph Style]" applied.

[Document Geek]

I tried the Find dialog box because clicking on the Find Next button in the Find Font dialog box did nothing/ 

Have you any idea why a font would be referenced in a document, but the Find Next button won't take you to the instance of that font?

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

On the 2nd screenshot - in the middle - you've selected [No Paragraph Style] as a limit to where this font should be found - on the right you've a trash icon - currently covered by the dialog box - click it to clear this limitation and run your search again. 

[Document Geek]

I did that, but I get the same result as in the Find/Change font dialog box. I click Find Next and nothing happens.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

Are you sure "Find what" field is empty? 

That there is no " " - space - there?

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

You should also activate search on locked, invisible layers, etc. 

[Document Geek]

There is only 1 layer, no conditional text, and nothing is locked. This is a single thread story that goes from page to page. All graphics are inline graphics in that story.

This is very puzzling to me...

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

Can you share your file? 

I'll run it through my ID-Tasker tool. 

You can click my nickname if you prefer to send it privately. 

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

Or if you work on Windows - you can use free version and diagnose problem yourself. 

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

@Document Geek 

Thanks for the file.

"Unfortunately", I've sent you too many messages privately - with every step I took - and exceeded the quota 😉

I've almost found the problem.

Can you send me a message with your e-mail address?

[Robert at ID-Tasker · Accepted solution]

OK, problem solved 🙂

What I've done to fix your document - after using ID-Tasker to diagnose the problem.

1) selected whole Story - cut and paste into a new, temporary document - this didn't transfer Minion Pro,

2) removed "all" pages and their content in your document - File / Document / Setup / Number of Pages = 1,

3) Minion Pro was still present - with few other fonts,

4) deleted one last TextFrame of the "main" Story - still located on page 1,

5) Minion Pro and other fonts were gone - only two used on Parent Pages remained,

6) copied back your Story from this temporary document.

Done.

So your document has been corrupted in a very strange way - even IDMLing couldn't remove those two stranded Stories - original culprits.

[Document Geek]

Wow, that's great! Thank you for showing me how to fix it. These documetns were initially converted from very old FM documents, and I have been updating them for 7 years now. Who knows at what point in the process that corruption took place. 

I'll use your steps to fix the documents that have this issue. Thanks Robert!

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

You're welcome.

Getting into the solution wasn't so straightforward, but IDT helped a lot 😉