From the course: InDesign Secrets
327 Preflight profile to check for Typekit fonts - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Secrets
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?
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161 Keeping page numbers on top of master items3m 55s
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162 Adding automatic currency symbols in a table cell or before text3m 50s
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163 Make a pop-up footnote for your ebook3m 48s
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164 Deleting tabs at the beginning of paragraphs and applying a paragraph style3m 10s
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165 Five InDesign Presentation tips6m 28s
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089 Three great Object Styles for any designer8m 1s
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090 Choosing alpha channel image transparency2m 25s
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091 Adding and reading metadata for InDesign files3m 25s
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092 Adding ALT tags to your images6m 59s
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093 How to Place & Link a text frame's text but not its formatting7m 4s
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094 Setting the baseline position of a caption2m 39s
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051 Five things that should be in every new file5m 19s
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052 Forcing EPUB page breaks with invisible objects6m 21s
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053 Understanding component information6m 39s
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054 Creating running heads using section markers4m 16s
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055 Making a font with InDesign using the IndyFont script5m 20s
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056 Finding where that color is used7m 17s
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037 Updating a linked table without losing formatting5m 18s
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038 Creating electronic sticky notes4m 49s
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039 Moving master page items to the top layer for visibility2m 48s
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040 Five guide tricks that will impress your coworkers6m 18s
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041 Letting InDesign add the diacritics4m 21s
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042 Using single-cell table cells for custom paragraph formatting6m 2s
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