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February 26, 2020
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inDesign can't find Source Sans Pro italic. Despite it was used in a document 2 months ago...

  • February 26, 2020
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inDesign has some trouble with fonts...

First some fonts are doubled in the font list: "Barlow (OTF)" ans "Source Sans Pro (OTF)" appear twice. Which one should be selected?

Problem: when I open a document created months ago, inDesign warns me that Source Sans Pro italic could not be found. Despite I didn't changed everything with the fonts in the system. The dialog to find fonts is popping up. But I can't select the Source Sans Pro. Looking up with another software, the Source Sans Pro Italic is there. Whats' wrong with inDesign?

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floramc
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floramcCommunity Expert
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February 26, 2020

What I can say about double fonts, is that you should be able to use whichever. It can be an overreading, something in the sense of two programs installing the same font on your system.

 

In my small world. it happened when downloading a font that I was not sure I did or did not have. Turned out it was already installed on my computer, so I have the original one and the copy I downloaded. Maybe you have some application that reinstalled it for you and now you have doubles. Try them and see if both work.

 

As to the second question, I am not very sure, but I can guess that maybe the font does not work with inD any longer?

 

  • you can go and see if it so by checking your font library on your computer, if pc or mac it's different, but it would show doubles in both. I am personally too lazy, so I keep this double 
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