Automatically checking for missing fonts

Use this task to automatically check for missing fonts in your PDF document as part of an Action List, Global Change or Preflight Profile. You can then decide whether or not to buy the missing fonts from Monotype.

Note: If you want to have the possibility to buy Monotype fonts, you must first have set up the Monotype Baseline platform and enabled the Automatically check Monotype Baseline™ for missing fonts option in the PitStop Pro Preferences (See Automatically checking for missing fonts).

To automatically check for missing fonts

Define an Action List, Global Change or Preflight Profile. Use one of the following:
- Action List: Embed Non-Base14 Fonts
- Action: Embed font
- Global Change: Embed Font
- Preflight check/fix: Fonts > Not embedded (Embed font attribute)
Run the Action List, Global Change or Preflight Profile.
In addition to the other checks and fixes, PitStop Pro:
1. Checks the PDF document for missing fonts.
2. If any, looks for them firstly on your local system.
3. If not found and the Monotype Baseline platform is enabled (including the Automatically check Monotype Baseline™ for missing fonts option), looks for them in the Monotype Baseline platform, and opens the Fix Missing Fonts dialog.
Note: If you haven't enabled Automatically check Monotype Baseline™ for missing fonts, and fonts are missing, you will get a warning that the font couldn't be embedded.
If the Fix Missing Fonts dialog opens:
- Locate the missing fonts and preview how your document would look with the missing fonts embedded.
- Decide whether you want to buy the missing fonts from Monotype Imaging Inc.
- To only embed the missing fonts that are available on your local system (listed in the Available on system (free) section), click Fix Fonts From System (Free). This is a free service.
- To embed the missing fonts that are available for download from the Monotype platform (listed in the Available for download section), click Fix All fonts.
- To continue without embedding any fonts, Continue without Fix.
The number of tokens (i.e. licenses to embed a subset) needed to download all missing fonts from Monotype is put in brackets. If there are more missing fonts than you have tokens, you have to buy extra tokens first (https://baseline.monotype.com/BuyCredits). For more information, refer to Fix Missing Fonts dialog: sections and buttons.

Note: If you haven't set up the Monotype Baseline platform, PitStop Pro doesn't know whether or not the missing fonts are available for download. The Available for download section will be grayed out.

After embedding the downloaded fonts, PitStop Pro does not save the document automatically. Do not forget to save it yourself, if you want to keep your changes!