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InDesign Font Confusion
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I am using InDesign 3 on an iMac using OSX 10.3.9
I picked up and brought home a job that I have to do correx on. The original was created on a PC using InDesign 3.
I had them send me copies of their OTF fonts that I didn't have (called Conduit). And I put them in the font folder in the InDesign application folder... And they will not come up. Sure it was a PC font, but it is OTF... My other OTF fonts I have in the font folder seem to work fine...
MEANwhile... these same documents I have to work on also need Franklin Gothic & Time New Roman (man these things are ugly)... and I have those fonts, though not in my InDesign font folder... so I copied them to the font folder and they don't show up either... When I hit Command-I the ITC Franklin fonts & the Times New Roman fonts are ID'd as Postscript Type 1 outline fonts...
I don't need to print this job out for them. I could probably still do all the editing correx by Monday anyway, though I would be a little nervous as to how it will look when it returns to their computer system and THEY print it out...
Man... I may not last as a freelancer... every job I pick up seems to be a computer hassle mine field
Can anyone suggest what my problem is? (...with the fonts only please)
(Last edited by tpicco; Feb 10, 2007 at 04:20 PM.
(Reason:spelng))
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Once loaded, did you quit and restart Indesign?
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You could also try FontExplorer X...it's free and does a nice job of font management.
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well restarting InDesgn & even rebooting the Mac didn't help, but I searched for the fonts themselves, double-clicked, & FontBook asked me if I wanted to install them... I did and all was well... so I am still at a conceptual loss, since this ain't working the way InDesign sez it's supposed to, but the fonts ARE working...
BUT I discovered a nice treat in InDesign (I do 66% Quark work)... even though I am missing a couple of odd fonts being used in this pick-up job, InDesign still id's them and keeps the line breaks as they would appear if the font was here... since I ain't designing, only going through 300 pages of edit correx & some minor art adjusts, and since I do not have to print it out, I am humming along effortlessly & fearlessly... even the paragraph stryle sheets work... they just don't display the correct face...
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You can also try placing the fonts in the /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Fonts folder, or the ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Fonts folder. That may work out better.
Originally Posted by tpicco 
MEANwhile... these same documents I have to work on also need Franklin Gothic & Time New Roman (man these things are ugly)...
Franklin Gothic and Times are ugly? These are two of the most beautiful and well designed typefaces out there (though Times may be a bit overused...).
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um... the job is ugly... all the beautiful fonts in the world can't save someone with no skills...
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FontExplorerX. Can't recommend it enough.
Also, what do you mean when you say you 'put [the fonts] in the font folder in the InDesign application folder'? That is so not how you install fonts...
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 OK... so what's the outcome? Have the fonts been found and loaded? Did FontExplorer come to the rescue?
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Originally Posted by tpicco
um... the job is ugly... all the beautiful fonts in the world can't save someone with no skills...
My bad.
So, are your fonts working or not?
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Originally Posted by glypht
Also, what do you mean when you say you 'put [the fonts] in the font folder in the InDesign application folder'? That is so not how you install fonts...
well... that's what InDesign SAID to do, and it had worked in the past for me, but then I was never trying to install PC fonts before either...
Pressed for time, as I said above, I double-clicked on the fonts, FontBook was launched and after I told it to install the fonts, all was well...
BUT I will check out FontExplorerX soon... when I have time to play with it...
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