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Jojakeem
Jojakeem
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August 9, 2017
Question

Font conflicts with both packaged and installed fonts

  • August 9, 2017
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It seems like I found the origin of weeks of multiple daily crashes and font conflicts. It seems like Indesign can't deal well with fonts which are both installed on the system and are located in a subfolder generated by 'Indesign Package'. In this case Indesign denies the existence of the particular font. Maybe it has something to do with naming conflicts? I notice that it seems it looks for individual weight names in contrary to font family/weight names. So for instance the font I use is Family 'Helvetica', weight 'Bold', it looks for a font called 'Helvetica-Bold'.

The reason I work from package folders is I often work with Incopy workflows. Installing/uninstalling fonts all the time would be quite a drag.

Can anyone else acknowledge this is a bug?

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    amaarora
    amaarora
    Inspiring
    August 9, 2017

    Hi,

    After packaging the file and getting the fonts in the "Documents Font" subfolder of your package folder, can you try to install that font?

    -Aman

    Jojakeem
    JojakeemAuthor
    Known Participant
    August 9, 2017

    It will ask me if I want to replace the fonts allready installed. I assume a package action will not change fonts in any way, just copy them to a folder. Right?

    I should add some info of my system:

    Windows 10, creators update

    Adobe CC 2017, all up to date as for august 2017

    Workstation, i7 hexacore, 32gb ram, 500gb ssd, 560ti gpu

    I used font manager FontXplorer X before, which I unintalled because I thought it was causing the issues. But all remained problematic after that.

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