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Hello, nearly every document I open, whether I created it on my new-ish MacBook or not, comes with this annoying message, 'This document has missing fonts.' Often, it's in the way of the txt and I have to wait for it to go away. If I wanted to change the fonts in the document I'd do so, I never ever need this message!
How do I stop it showing up?
Thanks
David
Unless optionally configured to do otherwise, MS Word does not embed fonts, but only their font references, including prefabricated font names that are not installed on any Windows or Mac.
Apple's Pages has no means to embed fonts in anything other than an exported EPUB, and even that is optional. Pages expects any font reference in a document that it opens to be physically installed on the Mac where Pages is installed — unless embedded in the document. If not, it will pop a warning dialog about missing fonts, and may attempt font substitution.
The solution is to download the missing font as OpenType from a site where you can get that particular font face for free. I would put these into your /Users/yourname/Library/Fonts folder, which is one of the three that the System searches for fonts.
Unless optionally configured to do otherwise, MS Word does not embed fonts, but only their font references, including prefabricated font names that are not installed on any Windows or Mac.
Apple's Pages has no means to embed fonts in anything other than an exported EPUB, and even that is optional. Pages expects any font reference in a document that it opens to be physically installed on the Mac where Pages is installed — unless embedded in the document. If not, it will pop a warning dialog about missing fonts, and may attempt font substitution.
The solution is to download the missing font as OpenType from a site where you can get that particular font face for free. I would put these into your /Users/yourname/Library/Fonts folder, which is one of the three that the System searches for fonts.
Well, can't tell, but several of the latest Security updates blew various things up, worst was the Mojave one, 2nd the Catalina one, & 3rdly the 10.13 one.
A Reinstall of the base OS cured about 90% of the problems.
Did this happen after a recent update?
Thank you Viking for your detailed answer.
However, what I wanted was a way to switch off this function.
David
I know you can't switch it off in Pages, and I don't have Word to explore its application settings. There is nothing in System Preferences panel to disable this missing font issue.
It's Pages. So I guess I'll have to put up with it. Thanks for your suggestions.
Yes, it did actually.
Yes, mine's Catalina, Thanks BDAqua, that's something to try.
'Missing fonts' message on MacBook Air
