Curiouser and curiouser....

determined · March 31, 2009, 11:37:52 AM

OK, I've got one that I'm seriously trying to figure out...Indesign CS4, file says I'm missing a font. Fine, but when I do a find font, it appears that it's in a "graphic", only the "graphic" is really only the type itself. I have been trying to figure out how the hell they pulled this one off and so far have been unsuccessful...anybody else run into this yet? I thought maybe it was from them dragging the file into a new document, but doing this did not affect any of the other actual fonts in the file...

Joe · March 31, 2009, 11:56:24 AM

Quote from: determined on March 31, 2009, 11:37:52 AMOK, I've got one that I'm seriously trying to figure out...Indesign CS4, file says I'm missing a font. Fine, but when I do a find font, it appears that it's in a "graphic", only the "graphic" is really only the type itself. I have been trying to figure out how the hell they pulled this one off and so far have been unsuccessful...anybody else run into this yet? I thought maybe it was from them dragging the file into a new document, but doing this did not affect any of the other actual fonts in the file...

I saw this recently on a job and there was thousands of these little bastids on the page of a map. I could not select them as text which is hat they looked like but they were actually tiny little graphics. I found the font and the job printed okay but I never figured out how or why the designer did this.

determined · March 31, 2009, 12:03:40 PM

same here, I have the font loaded and it all looks good, but I am DYING to know just how they did this (they probably don't even know how they did it) but DAMMIT I will find out (or die trying)....

determined · March 31, 2009, 12:04:23 PM

OK, somebody KILL ME!! :laugh:

Joe · March 31, 2009, 12:06:45 PM

Every now and then I just figure there are some things I should not know. This is one of them. :laugh:

Stiv · March 31, 2009, 12:07:05 PM

I'm not sure, but I had this when the fonts were converted to paths and the font was still referenced.

Joe · March 31, 2009, 12:11:53 PM

I wonder if converting them to paths will break the text up into thousands of little graphics?

gnubler · March 31, 2009, 12:21:59 PM

Quote from: determined on March 31, 2009, 12:04:23 PMOK, somebody KILL ME!! :laugh:

Welcome, Determined. You're prepress now.

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determined · March 31, 2009, 12:56:20 PM

Quote from: Joe on March 31, 2009, 12:11:53 PMI wonder if converting them to paths will break the text up into thousands of little graphics?

Nope, been there done that.... :undecided:

jimking · March 31, 2009, 01:02:36 PM

Could it be a "cut and Paste" issue?

determined · March 31, 2009, 01:12:33 PM

Quote from: jimking on March 31, 2009, 01:02:36 PMCould it be a "cut and Paste" issue?

don't think so, I've tried all the variables on that that I can think of....

determined · March 31, 2009, 03:07:56 PM

And the plot thickens....I thought it might be a CS3>CS4 issue, so I hunted down a past brochure from these people that is in CS3 (with thoughts of trying some stuff from 3 to 4) and as it turns out, the "type" graphic is exactly the same in the CS3 version....hmmm

DigitalCrapShoveler · March 31, 2009, 03:16:27 PM

The file was copy and pasted from AI, seen it a million times. We got a moroon here that does this shit constantly.

determined · March 31, 2009, 03:26:38 PM

yeah but all the links are still intact and the rest of the type is still "type", not a graphic

hold on there a second......OK, DCS, you get the prize today....apparently, they did one of those "drag" from illustrator to indesign and it does come in as a graphic. WOW, ignorance truly is bliss. :wink:

determined · March 31, 2009, 03:32:12 PM

thank you thank you thank you now I can sleep tonight :wink:

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