An old problem comes up at regular intervals. There is no practicable way to find missing characters other than using your eyes. Please file a feature request at http://www.adobe.com/support/feature.html

Peter

Would it be possible to use the Live Preflight for this? Can one examine its results with scripting?

Praveen M. wrote

... then I want to apply appropriate font for same ...

So if you can find the missing glyph, all you have to add is a loop that applies *every font* in Praveen's system and for each re-preflights to see if this message disappears. Problem solved!

(Color me old-fashioned but I like my special symbols to match the body font, so I'll stick to the old manual way of checking by eye.)

Interesting: the aggregatedResults contain arrays of arrays of only text, in casu the same text as shown in the Preflight panel. It also contains the page number (as a number, not as a page reference or something) -- but no pointer to the actual error. So using a script you know what page to check and what character code it is, but you don't know which one on that page!

And in the UI you can click on the error and it takes you to the character in the document. So it knows, it just won't tell us!

I was thinking of a global text adornment. The glyph would be highlighted as it is drawn.

To be of any use to a script we would have be able to search the document and report back the frame and offset.

I will give this some thought.

You don't need a plugin:

Edit > Preferences > Composition > Highlight > Substituted Fonts/Glyphs

Peter

Peter Kahrel wrote:

 

You don't need a plugin:

 

Edit > Preferences > Composition > Highlight > Substituted Fonts/Glyphs

Yeah that's what I thought too! Highlighting is not the problem, it's reporting them to a script that is.

Kerntiff Publishing Systems would be very happy to add scripting 

capabilities to its plugins, just ask.