When Finale tells me that a font is unavailable (usually when I export to PDF), how do I determine where that font is used?
I'm running Finale version 26.5.1.520 on Windows version 10, and have been using Finale since version one point something.
When I select Main menu bar > File > Export > PDF..., I get the "Font Warning" dialog which gives me a list of "fonts are used in this document but are not currently available"; in this case one font "Arial Unicode MS".
The warning is correct: I used that font in the past, but at some point Microsoft stopped including it and I've stopped using it. The score file I'm working on is an old one that dates from before "Arial Unicode MS" disappeared.
I don't get this warning very often, but when I do, it's a font that I used because it had one or more characters that weren't in the fonts I usually use, so letting Finale substitute some other font is unlikely to give acceptable results.
I tried using "Check document fonts against system fonts" in main menu bar > Document > Data Check > Font Utilities, but it was even less helpful: it reported a bogus font "Missing Font (26)", and tried to tell me that it couldn't find "Maestro".
Thanks,
-- Ed

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