(Off hand I found nothing beginning with ‘California’ amongst these.) As Steve Werner said, however, Adobe updates and installers should not remove existing fonts from your computer. In particular, at the bottom of the page are links to (extensive) lists of the fonts that were bundled with CS6, CS5 & 5.5, CS4 and CS3 & earlier versions of the Adobe CS apps. Within Adobe CC there are many, many fonts available.Some of your questions are likely answered on this page: Creative Cloud fonts, installation & FAQs | Adobe Type. The last reason that you might be getting this error message is because you have fonts on your system that are not activated. So make sure to check with whomever you are sharing with that they have access to Adobe CC. It only becomes an issue if you are packaging a folder to share with someone. If you are saving files as PDF to send elsewhere or to a printer it won’t matter. ![]() This may not be something you or they want to get involved in. If you pass them to someone else or someone passes them to you, you/or they need to be subscribed to the same package in order to be able to use them. You are in fact only renting them from Adobe. These fonts are perfectly legit if you are subscribed to this package.īut you don’t own these fonts. They may have been used as Adobe Typekit or Adobe CC. We don’t know for sure where these fonts came from or where they originated. Sharing fonts or indeed files can lead to software issues or corruption problems.įonts that come from a third party are to be avoided if at all possible. Your machine will always throw an error if there are two similar fonts, with either the same folder name or subset name. The way to solve this is to uninstall the fonts and reload the one you have in either a source file or from an original system file. When yo open a file and it says font missing, your machine is trying to match your file with the font that has the same name on your system but if there are two with the same name then both will appear in the list. This causes problems when we open InDesign Files. They sometimes have been renamed somewhere along the way but in actual fact are the same font as one we already have on our system. Fonts arrive packaged with jobs and we automatically load them onto our machines through Font Folder or Font Book. This is another problem that can cause font headaches. If you package the file with Post Script Fonts the folder will travel and work much better. This should solve your missing font issue, however if your file is being sent to someone else to work on and they have a different platform to the problem will arise again on their end. This should be ok, but you need to check that the font you choose to replace your ‘missing’ font looks similar to your original. However, you may not have a Post Script version, and only have a True Type Version. These are original Adobe Fonts that don’t cause any issues when printed. In order to solve this issue you need to replace the missing font with the correct font you have on your system. When you open a document that has a font that started life on a different platform to yours, your system realizes this and shows the error that the font is missing. Because we now have cross platform usage this can lead to font problems.įonts that have moved cross platform, may look the same and may even have the same font name (Futura & Times New Roman as example), but they are very different fonts on each platform. But that is definitely not the case nowadays. In the past it was nearly a given that if you were using Adobe products and a graphic designer that you were more than likely using a Mac OS. Let’s look at some possible solutions to this problem. It takes up valuable time that should be spent working. ![]() It’s always frustrating when you sit down to complete a job and are faced with an error message. InDesign is missing a font for the following 3 reasons You know they are not! Here’s what to do to fix the problem. You open a document that you have worked on previously and you get an error message to say one or more fonts are missing.
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