AboutRoy Wilhelm Expertise I can help you with questions about typography, style sheets, document setup, image placement, importing text, exporting, and much more.
Experience I use InDesign daily to design magazine pages. I have experience in newspaper and magazine design.
Organizations AIGA
Education/Credentials I have a Bachelor's degree in Communication Design
Expert: Roy Wilhelm Date: 3/21/2008 Subject: Copying and Pasting text in between documents
Question Hey Roy,
My classmates and instructors and I are working on an imposition for our magazine production class. Everything has worked pretty much flawlessly so far but we seem to be having a very perplexing issue that we have not been able to find any answers to on the web or in our Adobe "classroom" text books.
We have created an imposition document so the film will be output correctly on our image setter. However when we go about copying and pasting our contents into the imposition document to achieve the correct layout the font appears to be missing. The font is installed and it works in the master document, but it appears to disappear when we paste it into the imposition document.
We don't have imposer pro so we can't use that, and it turns out that inbooklet se doesn't support the imposition layout that we need.
We figured out a way to circumvent the situation by importing the style sheets from our master document, but I don't think that should matter, because when you copy and paste the font it should include the font data, including which font is being used, especially if we have selected to import all data from other sources in the type section of the preferences.
As of current the issue is solved, but I still want to know if you have any idea what the source of this problem was. We had all other fonts turned off in fontbook (as it is our default font manager) and we only had the three fonts for the magazine active, yet it claimed we were missing the font.
Thanks a lot for your help, hopefully something like this doesn't happen in the future.
Sincerely,
James
Answer Hi James,
I think your question is outside my expertise but I will try to help. At the magazine where I work, we burn all our PDFs page-by-page and courier them to our printer. The printer handles all the imposing and prepress work.
I'm assuming you're creating the imposition doc with InDesign. Have you tried using the "Find Font" feature to "reload" the font?
can you explain what is involved in creating the imposition document? How many pages are in the master doc? Are you generating PDFs?
