Need to Replace Pink Boxes in Text!

Thank you all! finally managed to do it and find a nice looking font to go with it. I see what you are saying too but its also worth noting I rang Adobe about this first and they said it wasn't possible so I guess you are all Tom Cruise.

Thanks again.

Tom

Tom thanks for the info on the  font! I downloaded it and tested in Illustrator and InDesign, and can confirm what you describe. (Not that I ever doubted you!)

But Illustrator is *not* doing any sort of auto-swapping of a font. It is switching to the default font (Myriad) whenever you try to enter a character that doesn't exist in the (non-default) font you chose. If you dragged out an empty  text frame, switched  the font to Goldsmith, and started typing, your text would appear in Goldsmith. But as soon as you type a character that's doesn't exist in Goldsmith, Illustrator switches to Myriad, and stays in Myriad, even if you enter more characters that do exist in Goldsmith.

Here I started typing in that Goldsmith free display font. When I typed the equals sign, it switched back to its default Myriad Pro font, and stayed there:

InDesign has a different "philosophy" in that it assumes you want all the characters you enter to be in the font you chose. If you enter a character that doesn't exist in that font (pretty rare), you get "the pink box" meaning a missing glyph  (character) in that typeface. If you keep typing, the font remains the one you chose, unlike Illustrator.

I understand you wish InDesign would act like Illustrator, in this case swapping in Minion Pro (its default font) whenever you type a character that doesn't exist, or flow in/paste in text. I can see how that'd be useful. But understand that many more users would howl in protest.

My guess is that the Adobe engineers for InDesign decided designers would rather be alerted for missing glyphs instead of a quiet swap of a different typeface, which would be easy to miss when dealing with lots of text. So in InDesign you'll get pink boxes instead.

You can do a Find/Change or a grep thing as described above to choose a different font the missing glyphs.  (I think Myriad's equal sign glyph looks really weird with Goldsmith, personally.)

Hope that helps, understanding the underlying philosophies ...

AM

Thanks guys, this seems a really over complex issue for something Illustrator sorts out automatically.

Ive tried these and for one reason or another they seem to not work (probably me) and as you shouldn't ascend mountains you can't descend so I'm going to bow out here and get another font.

Just seems a real shame.

Tom

Use this simple regex:

\W

in Find/Change dialog (GREP tab), or as a GREP style option of your Paragraph style, and apply to it a Character style, which defines a different 'replacement' font.

Edit:

And please notice the upper case of W. It's important and doesn't mean 'shouting' here, as it means when you write a query title all in caps...