I've just been handed an InDesign file that has lots of text set in Futura Medium. This font was provided to me, and I installed it in Font Book. InDesign opens the file OK, but my first attempt at exporting a PDF (for the printer) results in an error message:
"1 problem was found with a background task:
Futura Medium: This font coudl not be embedded due to licensing restrictions in the font. As substitute font will be used if it supports the glyphs used in the restricted font. The PDF will nto be created if the glyphs cannot be represented."
So apparently I can't use their font, which is no surprise, eh? I went online and bought Futura Medium BT from MyFonts.com and installed it.
But how can I force InDesign to use the newly installed Futura Medium BT, without having to select every text instance using (the old, licensed) Futura Medium?
I would have thought removing the client's Futura Medium, restarting InDesign and opening the file again would force me to choose the NEW font I just installed, but it doesn't. YIKES!!! Now what do I do? If I can't export out a PDF that works, I'm stuck. (The resulting exported PDF has garbled text due to a substitute font being used. And the color fills are all black, too.)
Any suggestions? It would take forever to select each text block (on many different layers and pages) and change it to the newly installed Futura Medium BT.
Thanks!
