How do I globally substitute a font?

[ehbowen]

I needed to make some minor edits in a PDF file which my book designer created in InDesign. Upon importing it, I was told that one of the fonts was unavailable and needed to be substituted. I (foolishly!) accepted Affinity Publisher's recommendation of Arial. Now that I have the file open, I see that the unavailable font was what he used for the chapter head and book title in the heading of each and every page.

How can I globally substitute TeX Gyre Pagella for Arial?

[walt.farrell]

Ideally, your designer would give you the InDesign file (as a IDML file) rather than you working on a PDF. That would simplify your work, possibly significantly, I think.

But in either case, first, you must install that font on your machine, and it should be the same version of the font the designer used.

Once you have it installed, you won't have this problem.

[ehbowen]

On 12/10/2023 at 5:44 AM, walt.farrell said:

Ideally, your designer would give you the InDesign file (as a IDML file) rather than you working on a PDF. That would simplify your work, possibly significantly, I think.

But in either case, first, you must install that font on your machine, and it should be the same version of the font the designer used.

Once you have it installed, you won't have this problem.

Well, it turns out that the font which he used was Minion, apparently an Adobe InDesign default font. I don't have any Adobe products (other than Reader...), but I found a close match in "Mignon," which is freely distributable and, according to the entry I saw, available for commercial use. I worked around the problem by installing the Mignon font family and then re-importing the designer's file, this time substituting Mignon for Minion. I was able to cut-and-paste the edits which I'd made in the previous PDF file without affecting anything else. So thanks.

[iconoclast]

I would recommend to take a look at the text, if it still fits into the layout as it did before. Because different fonts, even if they have the same name, very often need different space. I don't know the english word for it. In germany, we call it "Laufweite". So even if you use a font that has the same name and seemingly the same design, but is made by a different developer, it can possibly mess up your whole layout. I personally had that problem in my very early days with a Garamond.

[ehbowen]

I agree with you, but this shouldn't be a problem. The Minion font was only used in the page headers; all body text was TeX Gyre Pagella (unchanged) and display text was Brilon Regular (properly licensed, also unchanged). And none of the headers were long enough to even come close to running over into a new line. Believe me, I proofread the file and I'll be going through it again when the digital proof comes back from the printer.