Please HELP! Italics Fonts not available?

[27775]

Hi there! I pasted a word document in InDesign but the italics fornts (Helvetica) are converted in normal (plain) fornts (Helvetica). In the character window there is only Helvetica medium and Helvetica bold but NOT Helvetica italics!!! Can anyone tell me how to add Helvetica italics?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Maria

 

[apepp]

...have you tried 'placing' rather than 'pasting'?

andrew

 

[MarcusStringer]

You also have to have the font italic font active so that InDesign knows that it there ready to be used.

Marcus

http://www.midlandtypesetters.com.au

 

[Bjorn79]

A simple options for fonts where you don't have the italic is using a certain degree of skew, in the text toolbar. I usually take 10% skew, but that's font dependent obviously.

Bjorn

 

[TYPPIET]

I just want to let everyone know that the option of skewing type is a DEADLY SIN for serious typographers. An italic is NOT simply a skewed regular font. It has a different overall design (particularly visible in the letters a, g, f)

As an answer to the topic:
Make sure you do have the italic font available on your computer
AND
make sure the font is active (put the font in your fontfolder inside the systemfolder OR use a program like Extensis Suitcase or Fontmanager.

Using InDesign CS2 (Dutch version) in OSX 10.4.6 on a mac G4

 

[typographer]

RE: Font Issue.... Each font has a "family" each style is a seperate font. When you are in word or open office, when you click on bold it applies a "faux" or "fake" bold. Only when you have the complete font family installed in your OS then and only then will you be able to use it.
InDesign Character Pallette has the name of the font first then below it is the style. If "Italics" "Bold" "Bold Italics" are not listed then you are not able to apply that style. One way around this is to apply a very small stroke around your letters and adjust the kerning manually by holding the "alt" and pressing the "right arrow" key a coulple of time to give the spacing a little room so the strokes don't touch. Hope this helps.