In Publisher, can fonts of bullets be searched for?

[Ken Hjulstrom]

Hi,

I just finished constructing my resume using Publisher, and since some of my skills are document layout and copyediting, I opened up the exported PDF of my resume in Acrobat Reader and looked at the list of embedded fonts.  This allowed me to find a few unexpected fonts that I easily updated in Publisher.  After a few iterations of this, I had all of the unexpected fonts removed except for Lucida Grande, which Acrobat reader was still reporting as being part of the exported PDF.  I tried searching for Lucida Grande in Publisher and found no hits, so I took the "brute force" approach, and systematically began to remove chunks of text from a copy of my resume document in Publisher to zero in on what was in the Lucida Grande font.  It turned out that it was the diamond-shaped bullets that I had selected in Publisher's "Bullet and Numbering" section of the Paragraph Studio.  Does Publisher provide any way for me to have found bullets that use a font other than that of the surrounding text?  It appears that in my case, the primary font that I was using, Trebuchet MS, didn't contain the diamond-shaped bullet character, so I don't mind that it was "borrowed" from Lucida Grande", but it would be nice if there were a way to search for and find these characters, so I'd know that it wasn't some stray character that crept into my document.

 

Thanks,

Ken

 

[Ken Hjulstrom]

Attached here is a sample Publisher document that contains a diamond-shaped bullet, and its associated exported PDF.

AffinityPublisherPDFFontTest.afpub AffinityPublisherPDFFontTest.pdf

[walt.farrell]

Interesting question, Ken.

I can't find a way to search for that font usage, and it doesn't show up in Font Manager. You can, of course, assign your own bullet glyphs, from whatever font you want, as part of the Bullets and Numbering setup. So you're not stuck with that choice of Lucida Grande.