I’m assembling a catalog in Indesign. Another designer has sent a PDF ad they’ve created. When I go to place it in ID, I get “The following fonts aren’t currently available”, along with the name of one of the fonts they used. The font is used in a layered photoshop file that serves as the background…

Just ask him to embed the font. That’s all you can do

[image] PrintDriver: It might maybe resolve the issue to ask them to make it a photoshop PDF. That will embed the font. Not if the font has no embed permissions.

Right. I shoulda said, most times that will embed the font. If the font has no embed permissions, well… I’ve always been of the opinion that a font should be a known quantity, vetted before staking your project on it. But we see it all the time since we ask for the layered links in the work we do. …

Well I think originally they said the PDF didn’t have the font embeded - likely the font can’t be embedded. And opening the Photoshop File to make a PDF from that, won’t be possible unless you have the font. My initial thoughts on this was just to replace the font and reproof it and ask if it’s ok …

I’m not sure what the end goal Mojo has in mind — editing the type, maybe. That’s not doable without the font, but short of that, if the font layer was saved as a smart object, that might preserve the vector outlines in the saved file. The non-embedable font itself would, of course, not be embedded…

[image] Just-B: I’m not sure what the end goal Mojo has in mind — editing the type, maybe. I’m trying to understand all the pieces of the puzzle and think ahead so I don’t pass on a problem file to the printer. The designer seems stumped, so if I can make a recommendation, that might help. Bu…

Out of curiosity, I just tried my smart object idea. It didn’t work. Passing along fonts to printers is sort of a semi-OK thing that people do given that there’s sometimes no good way around it. Why not just ask for the fonts and specify that it’s only for printing purposes and that the fonts will …

Still doesn’t stop non embed fonts.

I don’t think you can package them if you can’t embed them. And you can’t package Typekit fonts. Even though there does appear to be some differences between PC and Mac versions of the same activated font. Had a thing last week where word wrap changed and that was the only thing we could come up wit…

Do you mean Adobe fonts? TypeKit is no more

[image] Just-B: Really though, what’s this person doing setting text-sized type in Photoshop? It’s just the wrong way to go about things. Thing is, it’s a designer with many more years of experience than me, and a much more impressive client list, so there’s a slight intimidation factor. If I…

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