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Find and change fonts

Use the Find Font command to search for and list the fonts used throughout your document. You can then replace any fonts (except those in imported graphics) with any other fonts available on your system. You can even replace a font that’s part of a text style. Note the following:

  • A font name is listed once for its use in the layout and listed each time in imported graphics. For example, if you use the same font three times in the layout and three times in imported graphics, it will be listed in the Find Font dialog box four times—once for all layout instances, and three more times for each imported graphic. If fonts are not completely embedded in graphics, the font name may not be listed in the Find Font dialog box.

  • Find Font is not available in a Story Editor window.

  • The Find Font dialog box displays icons to indicate the kinds of fonts or font conditions, such as Type 1 fonts , imported images , TrueType fonts , OpenType fonts , and missing fonts .

  • Use the Type > Find Font command to help ensure consistent output by analyzing font usage on pages and in imported graphics. To find and change specific text attributes, characters, or styles, use the Edit > Find/Change command instead.

  1. Choose Type > Find Font.
  2. Select one or more font names in the Fonts In Document list.
  3. Do one of the following:

    • To find the first occurrence in the layout of the font selected in the list, click Find First. The text using that font moves into view. The Find First button is unavailable if the selected font is used in an imported graphic or if you selected multiple fonts in the list.

    • To select an imported graphic that uses a font marked in the list by an imported image icon , click Find Graphic. The graphic also moves into view. The Find Graphic button isn’t available if the selected font is used only in the layout or if you selected multiple fonts in the Fonts In Document list.

  4. To see details about a selected font, click More Info. To hide the details, click Less Info. The Info area is blank if you selected multiple fonts in the list.

    A font may be listed as Unknown if the file of the selected graphic doesn’t supply information about it. Fonts in bitmap graphics (such as TIFF images) won’t appear in the list at all because they aren’t true characters.

  5. To replace a font, select the new font you want to use from the Replace With list, and do one of the following:

    • To change just one occurrence of the selected font, click Change. This option is not available if multiple fonts are selected.

    • To change the font in that occurrence, and then find the next instance, click Change/Find. This option is not available if multiple fonts are selected.

    • To change all instances of the font selected in the list, click Change All. If you want any paragraph or character style that includes the font being searched for to be redefined, select Redefine Style When Changing All.

    When there are no more occurrences of a font in your file, its name is removed from the Fonts In Document list.

    Note: To change fonts in imported graphics, use the program that originally exported the graphic, and then replace the graphic or update the link using the Links panel.
  6. If you clicked Change, click Find Next to locate the next instance of the font.
  7. Click Done.

You can open the Find Font dialog box while preflighting a document. In the Preflight dialog box, switch to the Fonts tab and click Find Font.

To view the system folder in which a font appears, select the font in the Find Font dialog box and choose Reveal In Explorer (Windows) or Reveal In Finder (Mac OS).