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Indesign CS3 -- Packaging Fonts on a MAC

Zones: Font Software, Mac OS X, Adobe InDesign Publishing Software
Tags: Adobe, Indesign, CS3
Hello,

Thank you for reading my post and really appreciate any advice. My question is, can someone please tell me the process in which Indesign Packages an indd on MAC platform (the knitty gritty details).  For work, every once in a while I need to alter some Indesign files that were originally created on a MAC, on my PC and I am having FONT conversion issues.  

Here is why I need help:

When I open a packaged indesign file on my PC, that was created on a MAC.  I get 2 folders one that has the name of the job and the other is _MACOSX. The contents of the folder that is named after the job is the Fonts and Links folder; the native indd file and the .DS_store file.  When I open the fonts folder, I get the list of fonts used in the indd file and they all are Okb in size.  I am unable to convert them.  But when I open the  _MACOSX folder I get the same Fonts and Links folder.  Only when I click open the Fonts folder, the list of fonts is all there and the file size is about 20-40 kb.  It is these fonts that I am able to convert and use in my alterations.

Can someone please tell me the process in which Indesign packages each component.  Especially the _MACOSX folder?   The reason I ask is because I  have never seen a packaged file without the _MACOSX folder except for today.  I received a CD in which there was no _MACOSX folder for each of the packaged indesign files, so I was unable to convert the fonts and alter the text. (well...without substituting for something else).  Perhaps the person simply deleted them before saving it to disk to save space.  But before going back to the person, I would really appreciate as much knowledge about the subject as possible.

Thank you very very much and any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Kdubbie
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