327 Preflight profile to check for Typekit fonts

- [Instructor] Isn't this a beautiful brochure? I just got it back from my freelancer. I think it looks wonderful. I want to make sure that I have everything that I need to print. I see that Preflight Profile says No errors. I go to the Links panel. Everything's up to date. Go to the Type, Find Font to see the font usage. Everything is there; nothing is missing. Am I good to go? Not quite. Because I had told my freelancer not to use any Typekit fonts. And if I click inside just randomly around here, I can see that it doesn't look like they did.

But I would like to be alerted automatically as I'm working on a file if any Typekit fonts are in use. I can do that by creating a special Preflight Profile that checks for Typekit fonts. I'm going to come down here to the Preflight Profile and choose Define Profiles. I'm going to add a new one and just call it check for Typekit. And where is that found? Down here under Text. Scroll down to Font Types Not Allowed, and turn it on.

Turn on Protected Fonts. Typekit fonts are protected fonts. They are downloaded to a special place deep inside your system folder whether you're on Macs or Windows. They're not really files that can get packaged and included and sent to somebody unless you purchase them from the actual type foundry, which is possible to do. I cover that in a different tip. If you just want a way to have InDesign alert you whenever a document that you're looking at is using Typekit fonts without having to dig around in the dropdown font menus, do this.

I'm going to say Okay, check for Typekit. Give it second, and what happened? Nothing's changing. You have to remember to associate the profile with the document that you're working in. So still using Basic, change to Check for Typekit. Uh oh, it found two errors. What's nice about this is that it can alert you to where they're being used. Award-winning portrait. I click there, and it jumps, and it selects the text right here. Ah ha, that's using Typekit.

What drives me crazy is that under the Type menu, if you want to Find Font, you don't see any little green boxes that indicate it's Typekit. So it's really handy to have the Preflight Profile check for you. You can just keep an eyeball down here. Now you can create a Preflight Profile that does nothing else but check for Typekit, and then just choose it from the popup menu here of all your different Preflight Profiles. Or you can include that little check, let's come back here so I can review where it is, under Font Types Not Allowed, in whatever Preflight Profile you're using now.

Every document by default is using the Basic one, and you can't edit that. So keep that in mind if you want to add this. Another thing that you can do is to embed this check in the document. So open up your defined Preflight Profiles dialog box like I have here. Where you see them listed at the bottom, there is a little sub menu where you can choose to embed the profile in this document. Now it will always check for Typekit fonts. Then to get rid of them we're just going to replace them with a font that's not Typekit.

So I'll replace this with that one, and now we only have one error. Let's find League Gothic, 18 characters. Ah ha, the headline. I'll replace that with, let's just do Anonymous Pro. There you go. It's all clean, no errors, meaning no Typekit. Cool, huh?