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025 Tracking down type issues with the composition highlighter

025 Tracking down type issues with the composition highlighter - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

025 Tracking down type issues with the composition highlighter

Anne-Marie Concepcion: Now I know that all of you know what this is, the problem here: the dreaded pinking. This is the kind of highlighting called Composition Highlighting that InDesign will add when you open up a document that uses a typeface that you don't have available to you on your computer. The Composition Highlighting means that it is substituting a different typeface. It's a fake typeface. If you click inside here, you can see that it's supposed to be Avenir (85 Heavy) but we don't have that. That's why it's in brackets. There are actually many other types of highlighting that InDesign can do to other text situations and they aren't turned on by default. They can come in very handy though if you turn them on in diagnosing problem child files. Like is this type here... let's zoom in a bit. Is this my eyes or is this type really tracked in a lot? Like this right here. Or what is the difference between these two instances of the number 530 and other weirdnesses. So let's see…

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