Aggravating in InCopy/InDesign workflows too where editors are often on PCs and designers on Macs.
HOW TO COPY AND PASTE TEXT IN ILLUSTRATOR WINDOWS
That Times thing is a PAIN! It also rears its ugly head when moving ID docs from one platform to the other … because the default on Windows is Times New Roman, different than on Macs (where it’s just Times). (Readers, David and I will be “officially” introducing Mike in the next podcast - but to learn more about him, click his author name at the top of his post, or check out his funny and intelligent blog at ) Mike, welcome to the blog! Great first post! In the meantime, remember these letters: IDML. But for that one, you’re going to need CS4. *There is one way I know of to truly, finally, and completely obliterate Times (TT) from a document. Let’s call this method Break The Link, Ditch The Pink. Times (TT) remains embedded in the old document, but it will no longer affect the style you re-created in this or any other document that text moves to. Delete the old style and replace it with the new.Ĭongratulations, doctor, the operation was a success. OK, it doesn’t have to be silly, but why not have fun?Ħ. From the Paragraph Styles panel, choose New Paragraph Style. I don’t know why this matters, but it does.ĥ. It’s the exact same font, but go ahead and do it. Just so InDesign knows you mean business, reapply the font from the Control Panel. Now that text is defined by your (hopefully not also Times TT), with all the specs from the old style as local formatting.Ĥ. Select the pasted text and from the Paragraph Styles panel, choose Break Link to Style. Deselect everything and paste so the text makes itself a new frame.ģ. Make sure it’s not text that has any local formatting.Ģ. In Document A, copy some text from a paragraph styled with the affected style. What if you wanted to keep that stuff? You need to change the style in Document A to sever it’s connection to Times (TT) once and for all.
Option-clicking on the style will obliterate that +, along with any local styling of things like italic, bold, kerning, baseline shift, etc. But you’re probably still left with a + in the style name. This removes “override” of Times (TT) and the highlighting disappears. In the new document, the easiest thing is to just click on the style in the Paragraph Styles panel. So how do you fix a document infected with a phantom phont like Times (TT)? But if you are in the habit of basing some styles on others, and especially if you change the definition of (as was the case with Document A), others who open your work may find themselves unable to copy and paste between documents without everything turning pink. It’s wedged in there real good.ĭepending on how you construct your styles, you may never notice or be bothered by this issue, even if Times (TT) is your faulty default. You can try trashing your prefs, exporting to INX, loading styles from other docs, find/change, begging, screaming, or crying. can be overridden, but it can’t be redefined. When you strip everything else away, you can see that this document has at its core, a deep longing for Times TrueType that will never* go away. So that is the font you see in the Control Panel when is selected and all overrides are removed. Document A was created with a copy of InDesign that locked down on TrueType. If your machine has more than one version of Times available to InDesign, it can get a little confused and lock its default to one or the other. InDesign needs a font to apply when no other formatting is called for. In this example, it is Times TrueType (TT). More likely, this is a case of InDesign’s stubborn insistence on demanding a particular version of the font Times. You copy some styled text to a fresh new Document B, and it comes in with the loathesome pink highlighting, indicating a missing font.įor Pete’s sake, how did you lose a font in the two seconds it took to copy and paste? Are fonts leaking out of the bottom of your machine? Stick a piece of paper under there and see if any letters drip onto it. More after the jump! Continue reading below↓įree and Premium members see fewer ads! Sign up and log-in today.
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