When I open an InDesign file, some fonts just don’t open at all, about half of them. It does seem like they are ones that I’ve added in the last year or so though. It seems like fonts I’ve been using for a long time are opening. This started happening when I upgraded to Suitcase 6, when I was still using Mavericks and Creative Suite 5.5. I had hoped with an upgrade to Yosemite and CC 2015 that somehow things would start working again but they didn’t. I’ve been using Suitcase for about 15 years now and I’ve never had an issue with fonts not opening this is really frustrating because the main/only reason I use it is for my fonts to open automatically for me and it’s not happening. I am assuming you are using the Extensis plugins for auto-activation in InDesign and not the Global Auto-activation option. Do you have your fonts stored in more than one Library in Suitcase? • If Yes, are the ones not auto-activating in a different library from those that are? • If Yes, ensure you have the InDesign plugin auto-activating from All Libraries • To do this you make the selection by navigating to the available menu option here: Type > Suitcase Fusion > Select Library > All Libraries • Quit out of InDesign and try opening everything up again If this suggestions doesn’t help, let me know. I may have a few other helpful tips up my sleeve. Cheers, Chris. [quote=“CMeyer”]I am assuming you are using the Extensis plugins for auto-activation in InDesign and not the Global Auto-activation option. Do you have your fonts stored in more than one Library in Suitcase? • If Yes, are the ones not auto-activating in a different library from those that are? • If Yes, ensure you have the InDesign plugin auto-activating from All Libraries • To do this you make the selection by navigating to the available menu option here: Type > Suitcase Fusion > Select Library > All Libraries • Quit out of InDesign and try opening everything up again If this suggestions doesn’t help, let me know. I may have a few other helpful tips up my sleeve. Cheers, Chris[/quote] Thank you SO much! I had no idea that menu existed and it solved the problem, to think for months I’ve been manually opening half my fonts. You made my day!! A font is a complete set of characters—letters, numbers, and symbols—that share a common weight, width, and style, such as 10‑pt Adobe Garamond Bold. Typefaces (often called type families or font families) are collections of fonts that share an overall appearance, and are designed to be used together, such as Adobe Garamond. A type style is a variant version of an individual font in a font family. Typically, the Roman or Plain (the actual name varies from family to family) member of a font family is the base font, which may include type styles such as regular, bold, semibold, italic, and bold italic. For information on installing and activating fonts to be used in all applications, see your system documentation or your font manager documentation. You can make fonts available in InDesign by copying the font files into the Fonts folder inside the InDesign application folder on your hard drive. However, fonts in this Fonts folder are available only to InDesign. If two or more fonts are active in InDesign and use the same family name but have different Adobe PostScript names, the fonts are available in InDesign. Duplicate fonts are listed in the menus with their font technologies abbreviated in parentheses. For example, a Helvetica TrueType font appears as “Helvetica (TT),” a Helvetica PostScript Type 1 font appears as “Helvetica (T1),” and a Helvetica OpenType font appears as “Helvetica (OTF).” If two fonts have the same PostScript name and one includes.dfont in its name, the other font is used. When you specify a font, you can select the font family and its type style independently. When you change from one font family to another, InDesign attempts to match the current style with the style available in the new font family. For example, Arial Bold would change to Times Bold when you change from Arial to Times. When you apply a bold or italic style to type, InDesign applies the typeface style specified by the font. In most cases, the specific version of bold or italic is applied as expected. However, some fonts may apply a bold or italic variation that isn’t exactly labeled bold or italic, respectively. For example, some font designers specify that when you apply bold to a font, the semibold variation is applied. If you are not a local admin you will need the assistance of your IT department to install the fonts. Installation is done by right-clicking on the font files and selecting 'Install'. However, you can install fonts for use with InCopy/InDesign without being an administrator. Please see the steps to do so below. Adobe InCopy and. Extensis Suitcase Fusion 2 and InDesign CS4. Ted LoCascio. And it appears as though you can still use it to manually activate fonts on your system and then access. Missing Fonts Loader Plug-In for Adobe InDesign CC 2017 6 Manual Activation When the Activate Missing Fonts Automatically checkbox is cleared, the plug-in. • In the Character panel or Control panel, select a font in the Font Family menu or a style in the Type Style menu. (In Mac OS, you can select type styles in the Font Family submenus.) • In the Character panel or Control panel, click in front of the font family name or type style name (or double-click its first word) and type in the first few characters of the name you want. As you type, InDesign displays font family or type style names that match the characters you’ve typed. • Choose a font in the Type > Font menu. Note that you choose both a font family and a type style when you use this menu. OpenType fonts may include an expanded character set and layout features to provide richer linguistic support and advanced typographic control. OpenType fonts from Adobe that include support for central European (CE) languages include the word “Pro,” as part of the font name in application font menus. OpenType fonts that don’t contain central European language support are labeled “Standard,” and have an “Std” suffix. All OpenType fonts can also be installed and used alongside PostScript Type 1 and TrueType fonts. For more information on OpenType fonts, see. Some OpenType fonts include alternate glyph sets designed for esthetic effect. A stylistic set is a group of glyph alternates that can be applied one character at a time or to a range of text. If you select a different stylistic set, the glyphs defined in the set are used instead of the font’s default glyphs. If a glyph character in a stylistic set is used in conjunction with another OpenType setting, the glyph from the individual setting overrides the character set glyph. You can see the glyphs for each set using the Glyphs panel. In some cursive scripts and in languages such as Arabic, what a character looks like can depend on its position inside a word. The character may change form when it appears at the start (initial position), middle (medial position), or end (final position) of a word, and it may change form as well when it appears alone (isolated position). Select a character and choose a Positional Forms option to format it correctly. The General Form option inserts the common character; the Automatic Form option inserts a form of the character according to where the character is located in the word and whether the character appears in isolation. When you open or place documents that include fonts not installed on your system, an alert message appears, indicating which fonts are missing. If you select text that uses a missing font, the Character panel or Control panel indicates that this font is missing by displaying it in brackets in the font style pop‑up menu. InDesign substitutes missing fonts with an available font. When this happens, you can select the text and apply any other available font. Missing fonts for which others have been substituted will appear at the top of the Type > Font menu in a section marked “Missing Fonts.” By default, text formatted with missing fonts appears in pink highlighting. If a TrueType font is installed and the document contains a Type 1 (T1) version of the same font, the font is displayed as missing. You can choose Type > Find Font to find and change missing fonts. If a missing font is part of a style, you can update the font in that style by changing its style definition. InDesign’s missing fonts dialog displays whether Font Syncing is Turned On Off in the Creative Cloud application. If it is turned Off, you also have an option on the Missing fonts dialog itself to Turn Typekit On. Fonts in a Document Fonts folder that is in the same location as an InDesign document are temporarily installed when the document is opened. The Package command can generate a Document Fonts folder when you want to share your document or move it to a different computer. (Before sharing any document fonts, ensure the font software license allows it.) Fonts synced from Adobe Typekit are not copied by the Package command. Read more about Typekit fonts and the Package command Fonts in the Document Fonts folder are not the same as fonts available from the standard operating system font locations. They are installed when the document is opened and supersede any font of the same PostScript name. However, they supersede only fonts within the document. Fonts installed by one document are not available to other documents. When you close the document, the fonts that were installed for the document are uninstalled. Document installed fonts are listed in a submenu of the Font menu. Some Type1 fonts are not available in the document. In addition, Mac OS fonts are not available when running InDesign in Windows. For a video on using document installed fonts, see (video). Multiple master fonts are customizable Type 1 fonts whose typeface characteristics are described in terms of variable design axes, such as weight, width, style, and optical size. Some multiple master fonts include an optical size axis, which lets you use a font specifically designed for optimal readability at a particular size. Generally, the optical size for a smaller font, such as 10 point, is designed with heavier serifs and stems, wider characters, less contrast between thick and thin lines, taller x height, and looser spacing between letters than the optical size for a larger font, such as 72 point.
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