This design-time message occurs if the resulting actions of one of the macro rules of the current DiaryGridLine includes the use of electronic (aka. faux) bold or italics, which are not available with InDesign.

 

When the use of electronic bold/italics with InDesign is requested, then Q++Studio tries to find the corresponding font with face name bold or italics, and apply that font. However, when no such font face can be found, then the following fallback method is used.

 

➢In the case of italics, as a workaround for a font that does not have an italic version (or in cases when you do not know the font to why you want to apply italics), using a skew value of 12° generally produces a result similar to the QuarkXPress use of electronic italics.

➢In the case of bold, as a workaround for a font that does not have an bold version (or in cases when you do not know the font to why you want to apply bold), using a stroke value of 0.15 generally produces a result similar to the QuarkXPress use of electronic bold.

 

The use of this feature might lead to unexpected results.

 

Solution 1:

 

You will need to change these settings using the Change Macro Options menu option (the detailed list of formats, and their respective support by QuarkXPress and InDesign, can be found here).

 

Solution 2:

 

You can specify how InDesign scripts should handle bold/italics settings in the corresponding section of the InDesign preferences.

 

See also: macro uses attributes incompatible with InDesign, sara uses features not compatible with InDesign, sara uses electronic bold or italics.

 

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Topic 188500, last updated on 08-Apr-2025