In InDesign CC 2021 there is any option to find opentype SVG and Opentype VAR font used

[Ganesh_In]

Hi ALL:

In InDesign CC 2021 there is any option to find opentype SVG and Opentype VAR font used in the document.

Thanks

Ganesh.R

[Laubender]

Hi Ganesh,

what does your Type > Find Font… dialog offer?

There should be information on the details of a used font in an open document.

And it is:

Also in the Character panel:

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

[Ganesh_In]

Hi Uwe

Thanks for your reply, but I need to know there is any InDesign Preflight option to find this and get as report.

Thanks

Ganesh.R

[Ganesh_In]

Hi

In InDesign preflight option we can find the OTF VAR font used in the InDesign document by Enabling the below option. Type 1 Multiple Master. Like that there is any option to find Opentype SVG font. If I enable OpenTypeCFF font it show OTF SVG font also other OTF.

Thanks

Ganesh.R

[Laubender]

Hi Ganesh,

ah, thank you for pointing at the Multiple Master option to flag VAR fonts.

Which is rather strange, because technically "Type 1 Multiple Master" and VAR fonts are different technologies.

Good to know that a VAR font is flagged with "Type 1 Multiple Master" is checked at Preflight.

There is definitely something that the developers should add to Preflight: SVG fonts

You could make a feature request at InDesign UserVoice:

https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests

Do that request and post the link of the request here so that everyone reading this thread here can vote for implementation.

Thanks,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

[Laubender]

Well, and of course one could write a script that would check for SVG fonts in the document.

But it should check that "permanently" while a user is working on a document. And that requires event handling features and would not run as smooth as InDesign's preflight in the background.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

[Ganesh_In]

Hi Laubender

Thanks for your reply how to handle in script. 

I posted this issue in uservoice.com forum:

https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests/suggestions/43372281-in...

Thanks

Ganesh.R

[Laubender]

Commented there and voted!

Thanks,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

[Laubender]

I wrote: "Well, and of course one could write a script that would check for SVG fonts in the document."

That was too optimistic. Currently I see no way to do that reliably.

Property fontType is too vague about it.

Read about a discussion of the scripting side of things here:

Find SVG font and Multiple Master fonts
selvam214, 3 hours ago

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/find-svg-font-and-multiple-master-fonts/td-p/12021293

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )