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The first issue we see here is that InDesign recognizes there are some missing fonts. Very common problem. I am sure you have seen this in the past either with InDesign or other page layout applications. We have a choice here. We could click ‘okay' but that means when we print this out, the text will probably print out as carrier, not what we want. So instead, we will click ‘find font' and the find font dialogue box pops open showing me all of the fonts I am using and because of this little yellow warning triangle here, indicates the font that is missing. It is Adobe Jenson Pro. Now Adobe Jenson Pro is a beautiful font but I do not have it installed on this machine. In fact I have purposely used Minion and Myriad Pro throughout our project files because I know those fonts are installed with Creative Suite 3 and InDesign CS3, that way you and I are all using the same fonts and the same files.

Now ideally, I would actually have Adobe Jenson Pro, I would install that font and this missing font issue would go away. That is a perfect world but if you do not have that font, what you are going to need to do is make a substitution decision. By default, Adobe Jenson Pro is set to be replaced by times. Not a bad font but maybe not the best decision. Instead, I am going to click in here and I am going to replace this with Minion Pro. So, I will start typing Minion Pro, now this is already queued up there and I want to change all of these references but before I do that, there is a couple of other things I might want to do.

First, I will click ‘find first'. I will move the dialogue out of the way a little bit and we can see here that this text is highlighted, that shows me where this font is going to be replaced. Now, the reason I want to do that is if InDesign is showing me that there is a little bit of text over here in the paste board that needs to be replaced. I do not need to worry about that because it is not going to really print. But in this case, it is the main text that a body copy of the design. I definitely need to fix that. Now, I could click to change all of this point but one more option and this is new in InDesignCS3. This is lovely, right here at the bottom. Redefine style when changing all. Without this option, all I would be doing is changing the text formatting but my text styles like character and paragraph styles would not be updated so then it will have a mismatch between my style of definition and my actual text content. So, we will redefine styles as we change the text, everything is going to get swapped out when I click ‘change all'.

So, you can see that no more fonts are missing. My layout gets updated here in the background and when I am all done, all of my character and paragraph styles here on the right will be just perfect. At this point, I will go ahead and click ‘done' and then face with yet another problem. Now, I could click this button here, fix links automatically and what that would do is take me through a sequence of dialogue boxes. First, to fix this missing link and then to fix the modified link, essentially just update that updated graphic. However, I want you to take you through this in a slightly more manual way using the link panel so that you know what is going on. I am going to click ‘do not fix' right now. So look up here on the links panel which pops open automatically whenever you have a link problem when you open an InDesign file. The first example here is landscapes.psd, that yellow warning icon, if I hover over with my cursor, it indicates that the file is modified. That simply means that somebody made a change to the PSD document. So, all I have to do is come down here to the icon at the bottom of the panel that says update link, give it a click. Just one second, InDesign updates that change and I am ready to go.

Now, let us scroll back up because we do have one more problem. That is the photography.psd file is if I hover my cursor over there and get that tool tip, it is missing. InDesign does not know where to find this file. So, we are going to help InDesign relink that graphic. So, ma

The first issue we see here is that InDesign recognizes there are some missing fonts. Very common problem. I am sure you have seen this in the past either with InDesign or other page layout applications. We have a choice here. We could click ‘okay' but that means when we... click to read more