Adobe InDesign CS2 : Missing required system fonts or cmap files

Posted on 5 February 2007 by Nicolas

The soluce :

missing files archive : reqrd.zip

The attached archive contains the CMaps and Base folders that contain the files that you are most likely missing. Just unzip the files using an unzip program such as winzip, winrar, or Windows built in archive program. Make sure inDesign is not running. Delete the CMaps and Base folders in your C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Fonts\Reqrd folder, and copy these new folders in their place. Simply run inDesign and you should no longer be presented with the error message.

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40 thoughts on “Adobe InDesign CS2 : Missing required system fonts or cmap files”

Michael on 23 February 2007 at 13:31 said:

thanks so much.. i have installed.. reinstalled, uninstalled, re re installed, fresh installed, clean installed, and a few other kinds and nothing would fix it.. thanks again. now i can get on with some work.!
Michael
Aaron on 14 March 2007 at 16:29 said:

Man, this is so much easier than browsing through Adobe Forum.
Thank you!
Paul on 15 March 2007 at 14:53 said:

Thanks! Very quick and good solution!
marCo on 25 March 2007 at 1:03 said:

wooo big thanks, i’ve just worked for my exam and then indesign crashed.
after that i saw this error every time when i wanted to start indesign, now its fixed.
THANKS.
Jonas on 16 April 2007 at 12:55 said:

Wow, thank you so much !
As Paul said: quick & good !
Joshua Seigler on 9 May 2007 at 23:34 said:

FANTASTIC
This simple solution has solved the problem for me too. You have my sincere thanks!
Martín on 24 May 2007 at 21:27 said:

THANK YOU!
You really helped me!…Just a minor thing; my winrar didn’t recognized the file. I had to install winzip…
thank you again!
Eduardo on 5 June 2007 at 17:52 said:

Hi, thanks so much!!
Jul on 18 June 2007 at 11:18 said:

hi dotmana,

thanks you for this solution, it’s great ones…i have just stucked for few week about this error..but now is gone…
thanks..
staford on 21 June 2007 at 8:45 said:

yo your zip file is corrupted.
Sinclair on 21 June 2007 at 17:34 said:

You should try again, the zip file is not corrupted when I test it…
Paul W. on 5 July 2007 at 15:16 said:

This did the job, thanks. I was getting so Frustrated!!
Dave on 16 July 2007 at 17:19 said:

Will this effect other Adobe programs such as Illustrator and Photoshop currently installed on the computer?
Sinclair on 17 July 2007 at 8:44 said:

@Dave : no, I didn’t notice any side effects. These files correct wrong files installed by corrupted InDesign setup.
Poncho on 27 July 2007 at 2:58 said:

Thank you so much. I really apreciate that you do not just said how to fix the problem instead put the “Missing Files” too in a .ZIP!!!
I looked for the “adobe sams font” for a long-long while!

I couldn’t find these files thank you again! =D
Kamal Dhungel on 1 August 2007 at 8:47 said:

ohhhhhh!!!!!!!! deeeeeeeeep thanks, how quick soln. 🙂
its fixed. thank u so much big brother 🙂
Wilmer Vallejos on 16 October 2007 at 7:06 said:

Muchas gracias, pensé que la solución sería muhco más complicada, pero la verdad que ustedes la hicieron muy fácil.
Saludos
fb on 16 October 2007 at 15:15 said:

THANKS!
Ammadae on 20 October 2007 at 0:41 said:

thanks a lot. but does this work even in later versions of indesign
Georg on 24 October 2007 at 0:16 said:

Thank you so much… you made my day!
Vasil & Petre on 5 June 2008 at 13:41 said:

Oooh, You are a live saver. Tnx tnx tnx
Greetings from Macedonia
Wendy on 6 June 2008 at 19:13 said:

Sinclair? Hi,
I have d/loaded the zip file and extracted it but when I have gone into files of InDesign the fonts folder only has one folder in it, called CompositeFont, and this is empty. In the main Indesign folder there is a folder called ‘required’ but this does not contain either ‘base’ or ‘CMaps’ folder. There is a ‘font’ folder in ‘required’ but this contains a few files only. Did a search on the InDesign folder and neither comes up. Can you help at all please?… canI just install the ‘base’ or ‘CMaps’ somewhere or will that mess the whole thing up?.
Many, many thanks in advance.
Wendy on 6 June 2008 at 19:21 said:

OK shoot me. I’m sorry, please totally ignore my previous post. I had my stupid head on and was looking in the wrong place. Have followed your instructions properly now and found that the base folder was there but no CMaps so I just copied that file and now it is working properly. Thank you very much, a lot of heartache avoided now. :o)
Alonso on 24 September 2008 at 1:53 said:

You’re a life saviour. Thanks so much!
DMyers on 3 October 2008 at 0:05 said:

thank heavens adobe has people like you out there who actually know enough about it and have the intelligence to fix it

thanks millions from another dummy
Mmaiers on 13 October 2008 at 23:00 said:

u r a lifesaver man
Aeri on 15 February 2009 at 16:52 said:

Thank you so much!! 🙂
Montell on 9 July 2011 at 9:32 said:

This thread is more than five years old yet still very useful! I’ve came across a lot of sites and threads but your solution was the only one that solved my problem. Please don’t ever delete this thread!

Thank you very much!
Syfer on 7 August 2011 at 7:07 said:

B-e-a-u-tiful. thanx man … i needed this badly.

@Montell make that 6 years dude … and counting

Cheers
Adriana on 3 May 2012 at 15:27 said:

Thank you very much!
Keith on 30 July 2012 at 19:38 said:

Thanks. You have performed a very valuable public service
ewizard on 8 October 2012 at 13:52 said:

Thank you very much Nicolas!
Although this information was posted almost 5 years ago, this has worked for me! Considering I have both CS2 and CS4 on my machine!
Well done.
Sara on 24 January 2013 at 17:42 said:

I could not find the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Fonts\Reqrd folder to delete and replace the CMaps and Base folders. Where are they? If there are not old versions to delete, can I just put the CMaps & Base folders
somewhere in the Indesign Folder? This version of Indesign has been working,
in my older computer but got this message when I put it into my MacBook Pro,
OS 10.6.8
Thanks!
Sara
Capt. Kirk on 7 February 2013 at 20:34 said:

Wish I’d have found this before fighting with Adobe for 2 days, installing, reinstalling and still not finding a fix to “missing required system fonts or CMAP files.” Thank YOU!
ashnb on 12 February 2014 at 3:49 said:

I dont seem to have the same folder. I get as far as the ‘Adobe’ location..after that I have a ‘fonts’ folder, ‘fontsRequired’ and ‘fontsrecommended’ folder. Inside of just ‘fonts’ there are no other folders to drop the cmap and base folder into. I have a PC when I looked at a friends PC with a working Indesign, they didn’t even have a plane ‘fonts folder’ AHHH help
Steve on 13 February 2015 at 19:58 said:

I have just spent the last 6 hours trying to fix this problem, your solution fixed it in 2 minutes. thanks
Michael B on 11 March 2015 at 11:36 said:

Thank you so much for giving access to these files! It fixed the problem perfectly.
nick on 20 April 2015 at 0:37 said:

Man, thank you so damn much. Tried to open the program, error, reinstalled over and over, still the error. You saved my frikkin’ day and it just started. Thank you!
Brett Peterson on 24 September 2016 at 0:22 said:

This is exactly what I needed!! You are a life saver!

Brett
gorgeous on 4 November 2017 at 13:57 said:

how about in CS6?

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