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rebuild INDD file
Hi there,
Not super up on InDesign but I’m helping out a guy with a project to get a few extra bucks but he keeps sending me files with fonts that don’t seem to work.
I asked him if there was something special I needed to do and he said “open the suitcases in font book and rebuild” and while that makes perfect sense, ie ‘install the font’ – when I uncompressed the zip he gave me, ( which had the INDD file, an INX file and two folders with Fonts in them)all the font files were listed as “executable files” and I couldn’t do anything to use them.
Am I missing something? Or is the zip he sent over probably messed up?
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right click on one of the fonts and look at the file size in the info. I bet it says zero bytes. That would be corrupt fonts. He should be packaging the file and zipping it before he does anything else to it (copy, burn a disc, email, etc….)
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yup – zero bytes.
good call Terry.
Thanks for the confirmation – I just figured, being a little bit unsure of InDesign, if it was something I wasn’t getting
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hmmm here’s a wrench in the whole deal: another designer ,who was CC’d on the same email, said she could install the fonts fine….mine are still zero bytes…no matter which computer I extract them onto – FROM THE SAME EMAIL
crazy!
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