How do you embed fonts in an InDesign Document?

[hlwaddell]

How do you embed fonts in an InDesign document? or can you only embed fonts when exporting to a PDF?? I know how you embed links...is there something similar for fonts??

Thanks

[brendam42437380]

But did you actually install the font before you opened the ID file?

I just ran into another file in my archives where this is happening to me:

I open the ID file without installing the needed font (I double checked that the font does not appear in the fonts' drop down box),

yet the font shows and prints correctly and if I select the text typed in that font, the name of the font appears in the fonts' drop down box.

If I save the file as a different name, in the same folder where the font is located in the Document Fonts folder, and come back and re open that file, the font still appears and prints correctly. I can even create new next and apply the same font because it seems to be in the fonts' drop down box.

However, if I save the file in a different location, then reopen, the font shows as missing, shows in the pink highlight and the font no longer appears in the fonts' drop down box.

It seems to me that the font is somehow embedded in the ID file, or it is temporarily accessing the font from the Document Fonts folder even without physically installing said font. I don't know how to save an ID file to make this happen, yet I get files from clients where this is happening. Not all the time, but sometimes. It's a mystery to me!

[Laubender]

brendam42437380  wrote

I have opened certain InDesign files from clients without installing the fonts, and the ID file opened and exported to PDF perfectly.

However, if I make changes and save the ID file, suddenly the fonts are no longer available and I get the pink highlighted effect on missing fonts.…

Hi brendam42437380 ,

sounds like you get a packaged InDesign document that included a Document fonts folder where all necessary font files are available.

Now you may opened the client's document and saved it to a different place on your harddrive or your network where InDesign cannot reach out to the Document fonts folder your client prepared.

Important Note: In the moment you did the Save As InDesign still can see that folder, but if you closed and reopened the document from it's new folder the Document fonts folder cannot be seen anymore, because the saved as InDesign document and the Document fonts folder do not share the same folder. That's all to it.

What can you do?
Duplicate the Document fonts folder to the folder where your new version of your document is stored.
Close the document and reopen it. Then the needed fonts should be available again.

Regards,
Uwe