Handling unavailable fonts

If you open an existing overlay, the overlay may contain fonts that are unavailable on your workstation. You can specify how the Overlay Editor should handle the substitution of such fonts.

To specify font substitution settings

1	Select View > Preferences. The Preferences dialog box opens.

2	Select the Fonts tab.

3	Specify the font substitution settings.

4

Click OK.

 

Font substitution settings
Ask for font substitution name	Only applicable when opening FFD files (see Stand-alone formats) in stand-alone mode. Select to override the automatic font substitution as well as the settings in the font substitution table below. You can specify exactly how each missing font should be replaced.
Always substitute Type 1 fonts with TrueType	Select to substitute all PostScript Type 1 fonts with TrueType fonts. This is useful if you open overlays created by using PostScript Type 1 fonts on a workstation that does not have PostScript fonts or Adobe Type Manager installed.
Always substitute by table	Select to search for substitution fonts by looking in the font substitution table below. Note: The fonts will be substituted according to the table, even if fonts that exactly match the original fonts are installed in your system.
Typefaces to substitute	A list of fonts to be substituted, if they are present in an overlay that you open.
Available typefaces	A list of available replacement fonts.