Comments on: InDesign’s Font Manager

By: Adrian

Adrian — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:03:25 +0000

Thanks for the info!!! Worked perfectly

By: Bob Levine

Bob Levine — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:47:33 +0000

Adrian, Most defaults in ID are handled the same way. To set them for new documents, open InDesign but do not open or create any documents.

Choose any defaults you’d like, such as fonts, swatches, etc. Any new files you create will then take on those attributes.

To set defaults for existing documents, open the document and with nothing selected choose your defaults.

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:41:11 +0000

hi Adrian

Change the basic paragraph style sheet without any docs open in Indd. That shold do it.

Pete

By: Adrian

Adrian — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:40:20 +0000

On another note about fonts, how do you set a default font in InDesign. Everytime I add a text box the default font is Times New Roman, how can I change that to another font? Thanks

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:55:04 +0000

Luke, check out this post, which also discusses missing fonts (especially my comment #24).

By: Luke Harris

Luke Harris — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:46:35 +0000

Thanks Steve.
I’ll give the inx option a shot. It’s not that the phantoms cause any problems — it’s just an aesthetic thing — nice to have a tidy document.

By: Steve Werner

Steve Werner — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:24:28 +0000

Luke,

InDesign does do that occasionally. First to check to make sure that it’s not really included in a style or in [Basic Paragraph]. If not, it’s what I call a “phantom font,” perhaps used earlier in the document. Try saving it as an INX (InDesign Exchange) document, and reopening it. I find that that often gets rid of phantom fonts.

By: Luke Harris

Luke Harris — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 06:39:00 +0000

What about InDesign’s propensity (on PCs at least) to occasionally list as present typefaces (usually Times or a variant thereof) that are not actually in the document? Find font doesn’t get rid of them, even though it admits there are zero instances of x font in the doc.

By: DJ

DJ — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:40:06 +0000

You mentioned working on a file with a substituted font. I don’t recommend working too much on a file with fonts missing as the size and spacing of fonts change, which can lead to a lot of rework when the original font is back in the file.

By: Steve Werner

Steve Werner — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:29:31 +0000

And there’s certainly a lot of unrefined and ugly styles that could use it!