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Does anyone have a method for locating fonts by name that are only used for visible characters?

I'm using the Font Name feature in a Preflight Profile to flag as an error fonts that should not be used in a document. This is to help enforce brand guidelines. So for example, Arial should not appear in any PDF, but often sneaks in as spaces or other non-visible styling from Office documents. I have a Preflight Profile setup to flag as an error if Arial is in the PDF. However, if all those instances of Arial are such invisible characters/styling, I don't want PitStop to flag it as an error. Only if a visible character is in Arial, should an error be produced.

Can you try using an action list with this format?

1. Select font Arial
2. Select gray fill or stroke color
3. AND
4. Log selection

Number 1, select the font you want to detect.
Number 2, tick both fill and stroke color and use gray options as a color space. Tick as well the "search in converted values of other color spaces" option. Set the percentage from 0 to 99. You can experiment this setup to achieve your goal.
Number 3 will select both conditions.
Number 4, you can choose the log type as an error and include your message in the text area.

Thanks for the suggestion. However, this solution still selects invisible characters - e.g. spaces

Sorry, I did not think about spaces. Anyway, I've made some few modifications on the action list to exclude spaces from the selection stack by using the Select text by key phrase. At first, it will deselect text lines with spaces so I have to split the text line, select the text and merge it again.

Here is how it looks: I also included the action list for you. Hope it helps.