question about "missing glyph" error in CS4/CS5 live preflight

hi all

 

basically i'm wondering "missing glyph" error refers , implications of such error. file doesn't mention it, far can see.

 

i have pdfs (from wordperfect) causing error when imported indesign. think pages cause error have been corrected pdf editor (iceni infix) acrobat reports fonts embedded , subsetted. third-party preflight programs reports okay too.

 

am safe ignore these errors?

 

thanks,

iain

i'm not sure "missing glyph" picks missing glyphs in pdfs. id point when click page number hyperlink in preflight panel?

 

if have missing glyphs in document text, this:

 

 

-- again, perhaps cannot see pink highlight because of background (an image) or foreground (another character 'on top of it', or perhaps graphic on text).

 

how serious is? it's ... critical! can see in image, thing indesign can notify pink highlight , temporarily insert font's own "missing" image (which may rectangle, question mark, or space).

 

fortunately, if do need character, have change font (for characters only) 1 contain missing ones. you'll have try system fonts before find 1 and matches rest of text :-)

 

there few special cases indesign gets wrong, though. symbol font, example, might not imported correctly word, , in case have manually change character -- i.e., find correct 1 in glyphs panel , insert there. there strange case of invisible marker: indesign thinks there if check against original word file, there nothing. insert character code u+fffd; can safely delete them.

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