How to quickly convert specific font to Outlines in multipage doc?

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August 3, 2018
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I have like a 50pg document, and I want to select a particular font and convert it outlines. I don't want to go through every page, manually selecting the font and converting it to outlines because that's painful.

Any ideas?

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Correct answer Stephen Marsh

It was easy enough to take a quick couple of screenshots from when I was testing this:

1. Create a new Preflight Check (you may only need for example AlfaSlabOne and not AlfaSlabOne-Regular I was experimenting and can’t recall if one was handled better):

2. Create a new Preflight Fixup referencing the Check:

L

Laubender

Community Expert

Hi ribik ,

Stephen's third option would the best way, I think.
Using Acrobat's Preflight feature to convert to outlines.

Search the forum, I think we already had a case where this was shown.

Regards,
Uwe

Stephen Marsh

Correct answer

Community Expert

It was easy enough to take a quick couple of screenshots from when I was testing this:

1. Create a new Preflight Check (you may only need for example AlfaSlabOne and not AlfaSlabOne-Regular I was experimenting and can’t recall if one was handled better):

2. Create a new Preflight Fixup referencing the Check:

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

ribik you have received good advice on why outlining text to paths is generally discouraged. I am guessing that you intend to do this in a duplicated file, so I won’t lecture you any further, you likely just wan’t to get the job done how you wish.

As you have found, there is no simple way to automate the repetition (if only InDesign offered actions), so some alternatives would include:

* Use a macro recording program that will record the mouse moves and/or keyboard clicks used to manually perform this task.

* Write a script to perform the task (The InDesign scripting forum would be better than this general forum)

* Consider doing this on a PDF copy, this is “relatively simple” to setup using native Preflight Check+Fixup features of Acrobat Pro, or with a third party plug-in such as Enfocus PitStop Pro.