Cue the Grumpy Old Man voice:Back in MY day, Adobe applications came on DISCS, with a bunch FONTS that you could install along with programs like Photoshop and InDesign. And that’s the way we LIKED it!While you might not have used these fonts on a regular basis (seen a lot of lately?), it was still nice to have them around. But in this brave new world of subscription software like Creative Cloud, no fonts are installed with most Adobe apps. Though InDesign is (sort of) an exception to this rule, as we’ll see in a moment.Does this mean that Adobe is providing customers with fewer fonts nowadays? Au contraire, mon ami.
If you’re a CC subscriber, you have access to all the fonts that came on the old discs and more. Well, another problem is that in some larger installations, users are instructed to turn off Typekit, because they’re already set up with a font server and purchased fonts, and they don’t want to rock the boat. (Their purchased fonts often don’t include the Minion Pro family, or Adobe Caslon, or the other fonts that came w/previous iterations of InDesign.) So templates and training docs that used to open just fine in previous versions of ID now open with many missing font alerts.It’s good to know that users can recapture those fonts by downloading and installing CS6 via their CC subscription! I’d recommend that for locked-down groups of ID users (fairly common in med-large companies), some forward-thinking manager should do so, then add those fonts to the team’s font collection on the server as part of their basic set.
Yes, for users working for large corporations with an Enterprise license — it’s not that it’s “lock down”, it’s that Adobe does not offer Typekit at all, apparently they could not get the font foundries to agree to licensing for large orgs.So I have CC but I don’t know — are those Typekit fonts available system-wide or ONLY in Adobe Apps?For instance if I exported text from InDesign to Word or RTF, would the Typekit fonts be available in Word?If not, that is another downside to Typekit compared to “the good old days”. I’m the general manager for Typekit at Adobe. for large corporations with an Enterprise license — it’s not that it’s “lock down”, it’s that Adobe does not offer Typekit at all, apparently they could not get the font foundries to agree to licensingThat’s definitely not true.
Typekit is available to Creative Cloud Enterprise customers. More information here:I’m sorry that you were provided with incorrect information on this. Please contact us directly at if we can be of further assistance on this.–Matthew.
Matthew, so happy to see you here! I encounter so much confusion about Typekit for desktop w/my clients and seminar attendees, nice to have you help clarify things.I did a full session on using Typekit for desktop at the InDesign conference, and showing that you do not need an Internet connection to use already-sync’d TK fonts was one of the key points I wanted to get across upfront. (But users need to remember to open new docs they plan to be working on and sync their fonts before traveling to a place w/out an Internet connection.).
Minion Pro Font For Mac
This threw a wrench in the works of a recent seminar; I gave out exercise files, but not fonts, assuming they’d have the fonts if they had CC installed. Some had just started with CC 2014 or were running the trial of CC2014, and were short-sheeted on the fonts. With no internet access in the seminar room, we had to limp through the session.I also teach in the continuing ed arm of a local university, and while they have web access, the CC subscription is tied to the Adobe ID set up by an IT guy somewhere, and students cannot access Typekit without that info.And I’ve created templates in the past for groups that were using CS4 and CS5.
I just started using CC 2015, coming from CS5.5 at a public university. Today, no matter what I did, some of the characters in the Oswald font, installed from Font Squirrel, are distorted, as if cut up by scissors. The same text prints fine from CS5.5. I cleaned font caches, removed and added printers, repaired permissions, and nothing fixes this problem, and I have to use Oswald to match the web site.I had originally been using Google version of Oswald, which only comes in regular and bold. Font Squirrel version has multiple weights and italics, but InDesign only reads Regular, Medium, and Heavy as the italic versions.I’m at a loss as to what to try next. I have a pdf created from a Word file embedded in an InDesign file, so maybe that’s the problem.At the end of the day today, I no longer could even get a page to print at all to an HP Color Laserjet from InD CC 2015. Since it was 6 pm on a Friday, I shut down and went home.Anyone have any ideas?
Minion Pro Font History
When you add text in a PDF, by default Acrobat picks nearby font attributes for the new text. Similarly, when you edit existing text in a PDF and the font is not available on the system, by default the font fall-backs to a specific font in a particular script; for example, font fall-backs to Minion Pro in roman script fonts. This default behavior can lead to fonts with inconsistent appearance in a PDF document. To make it consistent throughout all the PDFs, instead of using the default settings, you can choose a specific font for both Add Text and the fallback option in edit text features using the Font Options under the Content Editing preferences.