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Working with substitute fonts

You can use the Font Mapping dialog box to change the substitute font mapped to a missing font, to view all the substitute fonts you have mapped in Flash on your system, and to delete a substitute font mapping from your system. You can also turn off the Missing Fonts alert to prevent the alert from appearing.

When you work with a document that includes missing fonts, the missing fonts are displayed in the font list in the Property inspector. When you select substitute fonts, the substitute fonts are also displayed in the font list.

 
To view all the missing fonts in a document and reselect substitute fonts:

1

With the document active in Flash, Choose Edit > Font Mapping.

2

Select a substitute font, as described beginning in step 2 in the preceding procedure.

 
To view all the font mappings saved on your system and delete font mappings:

1

Close all documents in Flash.

2

Choose Edit > Font Mapping.

3

To delete a font mapping, select the mapping and press Delete.

4

Click OK.

 
To turn off the Missing Fonts alert, do one of the following:

To turn the alert off for the current document, in the Missing Fonts alert box select Don't Show Again For This Document, Always Use Substitute Fonts. Choose Edit > Font Mapping to view mapping information for the document again.

To turn the alert off for all documents, choose Edit > Preferences and click the Warnings tab. Deselect Warn on Missing Font and click OK. Reselect the option to turn alerts on again.