InDesign CS 2 font substitution issue.

[MJX]

Strange problem occured today and I wanted to see if anyone here has heard of it before. I opened a CS 1 job in CS 2 and the fonts looked like symbols (no font warnings, no highlighted changes). When I opened the Find Font dialog there were no errors or warnings and the font was spec'd as Symbol as though it were deliberately done that way. When we tried opening the same file up in CS 1, it complained that it was missing a font called *Syntax*. When we got that loaded up in Suitcase the fonts appeared fine.

Now why would InDesign CS2 substitute Syntax for Symbol and not warn you about it (nor highlight the change)?

The preferences are set to highlight font substutiion - is there a way to turn off font substitution altogether?

Thanks,

MJX.

[cari]

Sounds like auto-activation for CS2 isn't working or you are having a font-clash.

Have you checked that you have latest version of Suitcase plug-ins for InDesign CS and CS2 installed in appropriate places?

[Sparky]

CS2 has a lot of font issues it seems to want to change everything. Try this and tell me I'm the only one that has this happen. Open a new file and make a text box, type something in "Adobe Garamond Pro Regular" then copy paste what you just typed.

Now not all of you will experience the same thing but on my system in OS 10.3.9 ID CS2 the font is now seen as "Adobe Garamond Pro Medium" which doesn't exist.. Same thing with Helvetica, for some reason Adobe found it necessary for their apps to see "Regular" fonts styles as "Medium" try it in other fonts that are pre-1997 postscript. If you can get them to load CS2 (all the apps Photoshop Illy, ID etc.) read these fonts as "Medium" not "Regular".



and as I saw in another forum I DO work for the Department of Redundancy Department :wink:

[cari]

Have you upgraded to InDesign 4.0.1? Many font related issues are resolved in this update.

Have you moved/removed certain default fonts from your system? If so, have you rebuilt the Adobefntnn.lst files? (nn being a number). Rename or remove the old files with all Adobe apps closed, then relaunch InDesign and try again :-)

[green_ethel]

Indd CS2 Sys 10.3.9

Not exactly sure of the implications of this

I have been suffering from ITC Zapf Dingbats becoming Medium
(amongst other random InDesign CS2 Font weirdness)

I opened up a file "MacName:Library:Application Support:Adobe:TypeSpt:FntNames.db"
went to f=ITC Zapf Dingbats
and changed
s=Medium to s=Monkey
now InDesign reports the instances of Zapf Dingbats as Zapf Dingbats Monkey :lol:

so what is this file FntNames.db
(Adobe Latin Font Conversion Database)
why has the ZapfDingbats file been predefined to Medium
is this a glitch catching thing for Adobe :lol:
(or a glitch creating thing)