Viewing font information

The Font Properties dialog details font and text information on a specific text string in the page on view.

The Font Table presents information on all fonts available to the document. The information can be broken into lists showing details of all fonts in a selected category.

1.	Right-click the mouse in the text string that you want to examine.

2.	Select an option from the pop-up menu

o	Choose Font Properties to displays the dialog, or

o	Text Details to Log the details and display the dialog.

3.	You may choose to Show selected font in red (see below also); click this option again to switch back to normal rendering of the page.

4.	Click Substitute... to display the 'Font substitutes' dialog: see Setting up Substitute fonts.

5.	Specialists note: if it is a downloaded bitmap font, there is also a button Add font to character recognition database which opens EEfonts directly.

The 'Font properties' dialog shows these details of the text string (if they are specified in the document file):

	Characteristic	Example
	Typeface	16602
	Family	Arial
	Proportional
	ID	0
	SymbolSet	19U
	Size	10 point
	Style	0
	Weight	0

and a description e.g. Windows symblolset 10 point regular.

It also shows how EscapeE has rendered the text*:

Font type	Bitmap 300dpi
Name	AR10R
Screen font	AR10R
PDF substitute
Filename	I:\REDTITAN\FONTS\pcldload\13950.RFF

The details in Font properties are those of the text string shown in the Text box (just above the dialog's buttons).

Select Resident Fonts from the 'Fonts' menu to view fonts that are resident on the system in the RESIDENT.FIF file.

Select Fonts in use from the 'Fonts' menu to view fonts that are used in the current document.

Select Downloaded fonts from the 'Fonts' menu to view any fonts that have been downloaded for use in the current document.

Select Substitute fonts from the 'Fonts' menu to view any fonts for which there is a default font set up. To display substitute fonts specifically set up for the current document, choose Current font substitutes from the drop-down list on the Default font substitutes dialog.

Tick Show selected font in red from the 'Fonts' menu or the box at the top-right of the Fonts dialog. Select the font to be highlighted from one of the font tables: resident fonts, fonts in use, downloaded fonts (see above). Red is usually used as the highlight colour, but any red text in the document that uses the selected font will be shown in green on the screen instead.

Tick Show substituted fonts in red from the 'Fonts' menu to colour any text using a substituted font on the screen. Red is usually used, but any red text using a substitute font will be coloured blue instead.

Click the red triangle warning button on the toolbar to see details in the Document Information window. See also Troubleshooting.

Links

Font tables

Setting up substitute fonts

About symbol sets

Changing font and image libraries