How to add fonts to Highstage

Background

This article introduces you to the process of adding custom fonts to Highstage and serves as a resolve to the following Highstage error message:

Inaccessible because font is defined by theme font

The error occurs when Highstage refines a file with a font that is not defined in Highstage.

Resolve

1. In the appropriate Office file (Word, PowerPoint, Excel etc.), identify the fonts used.
2. Download the font files *(.tff file format).

Tip Common fonts can be found and downloaded directly from https://fonts.google.com/

3. Navigate to the tweak folder in your Highstage installation and create a new fonts folder.
4. Place the downloaded fonts inside the fonts folder.

3. Add the following snippet to your custom.schema.xml located in the tweak folder:

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<parameter name="AsposeFontPath" value="PATH" />

5. Replace PATH with the full directory to the fonts folder (ex. C:\Highstage\Turbostage\TS_Webapp\tweak\fonts).

6. Save the custom.schema.xml
7. Reset Highstage for all changes to take effect.