The second message interrupts our dealing with the modified and missing links. This message tells us that there are missing fonts, too. In the poster project, we used this dialog box to activate fonts from the Adobe Fonts service. And if you open any document whose fonts are missing, but are available via that service, you should take advantage of that. However, in this case, neither missing font is available through Adobe Fonts. We’ll have to choose substitutes. If you completed the poster project, then you have two fonts that might serve.
The text that is set in the missing fonts is highlighted in pink and another font has been used.
Note: The dialog box that opens can be accessed at any time to replace unwanted fonts with new ones by going to Type menu > Find Font…. It’s not only for missing font substitution.
We need to repeat the process for the missing header font, Balford Base.
When your cursor hovers over the scarier icons, a useful note appears. You can contentedly ignore the first image’s chain-like icon because it means the link to that image is healthy. Let’s start with the photo of the bearded man. This one indicates that it’s been “Modified.” This means that sometime since that InDesign document was last saved, the image was edited (in this case, in Photoshop). It’s exceedingly rare that I wouldn’t want to see the current state of an image. Hovering over the modified link icon reveals a note that tells us to simply click the icon to update the image.
The other image has a more serious issue: it’s deemed “Missing.” This can mean many things. It may really be deleted, gone. When this InDesign document was last saved, it recorded the image’s location in a certain folder. If it has been moved, InDesign will report it as missing. Another common trigger for this warning is if an image has been renamed. In any case, if the image still exists, it’s on us to tell InDesign where it is.
Ah, so it did find its way into a subfolder! Notice the checkbox at the bottom of the dialog box that says Search for Missing Links in This Folder. This is awesome for when someone’s renamed a folder that contains all the images in a document. For reasons we’ll cover later, that folder is often called “Links.” Some think this is unintuitive and rename it “images” or “pics,” but then your InDesign document won’t find them and mark them as missing.