![]() FontDoctor is a professional software application that will locate and eliminate hard-to-find font problems that wreak havoc on the Macintosh system performance and applications. To see and experience FontDoctor in its full glory requires purchase, but this demo version is a cool download for anyone who wants a quick glimpse of its capabilities.įontDoctor has long been the industry standard software tool for font problem diagnosis, repair, organization, and now font archiving and back-up. You can organize fonts by name or family, alphabetically, or by whatever organizational scheme suits your needs and style. Organizationally speaking, FontDoctor magically reveals every font installed on your computer. Upon completion of the scan, the program quickly diagnosed the incomplete fonts on our machine. Though we weren't able to test the suggested repair methods due to the limited capabilities of the demo, we were able to get a feel for the functionality of this utility by performing a scan of our drive, disk, and folders for diagnosis. Sadly, the demonstration version is limited and will not allow FontDoctor to repair, move, or organize fonts. A main window houses three working tabs: Diagnosis/Repair, Organize, and Inspect. We found the interface to be designed for simplified control. A house call from the FontDoctor may be all you need to cure your font woes. I should note that during all this I could still see both sets of fonts in my Indesign font list, so it displayed them separately, and in a new document I could still USE Avenir Medium, meaning this is some kind of underlying glitch in how the indesign document is managing and mapping fonts.Damaged or missing font types, multiple versions of the same font, and confusion about which font is which are common Mac ailments. ![]() the program's font mgmt should be fobust enough to either have entries for each entry in Font Book and maintain those (e.g., OTF and TT entries shouldn't get muddled). To Indesign Support, you guys need to resolve Font handling in Indesign. That will force the Mac to resolve the underlying discrepancies, and your fonts in Indesign will just suddenly fix themselves. Or maybe it just choked on the conflict, hard to tell without debugging.ĪNYWAY, the solution is to go into Font Book, find the family/file you're working with (e.g., my Avenir OTF entry), right click, and select "Resolve Duplicates". So, I had been using Avenir Medium and Black in places (which are from my OTF Avenir), and my file got switched to using the TT version (which only had Book). I "think" what happens is that Indesign has some kind of "master ref" in a file for a family, and it can "switch" or lock in on a file that doesn't have the face. say TT for one face of a font, Opentype for other faces, maybe a couple of the same faces of each (I had Avenir Book TT and other Avenir faces in OTF) Indesign may, eventually, choke on figuring the two out. Basically if you have a couple different versions of the same font file installed. However, I finally found the ACTUAL issue.įor anyone else who encounters and has this issue, the problem is a font conflict. I thought it must be a file corruption issue, and was about to rebuild my entire doc. copying assets in that use the font, restarting INDD, restarting my mac, etc. Nothing I did could resolve it, including all the things posted here and elsewhere. ![]() I have an indesign doc that just suddenly decided to start freaking out and saying Fonts couldnt be found. I literally NEVER have this issue in Illustrator or Photoshop. InDesign is the program where designers need the best control over type. If I knew ahead of time that working with InDesign 2019 was going to be such a headache, I never would have downloaded the buggy software. I make sure the fonts are installed in both the system AND inDesign's font folder (what is the reasoning behind this treat here?). ![]() So, I then restart my computer AND delete the preferences yet again. So, I restart the app and delete the preferences. Even though they are installed on the system. When it restarted, it no longer can see that the fonts - brand fonts because I'm working on a brand book - are no longer available on the system. I get to working on a style guide and try to change the leading and it crashed the whole program. The font handling is now a nightmare.Įxample: all morning I have been working on a brand book. Can we please fix this? InDesign CC 2019 is a slow mess.
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