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Mike Witherell
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Mike WitherellCommunity Expert
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June 10, 2024
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Where is the menu command or button to fonts.adobe.com

  • June 10, 2024
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Hi gang,

 

Dumb question: Where is the button or menu command to go from InDesign to fonts.adobe.com?

 

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Mike Witherell
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Mike WitherellCommunity ExpertAuthor
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June 10, 2024

Thanks Rob. Script to the rescue!

I'm relieved that no one has said "Here it is right here in front of your nose!"

Mike Witherell
    Mike Witherell
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    Mike WitherellCommunity ExpertAuthor
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    June 10, 2024

    Thanks for your comments, but I mean inside InDesign. Why isn't there a button or menu command to get you to "Browse Fonts". Nice that the CC App has it; but shouldn't there be an equally explicit button inside InDesign (where I am explicitly wrestling with design choices of typefaces)?

    Currently, I have to remember to leave InDesign, remember to go to the CC App, click a button there, go to a website version of fonts.adobe.com, find a design I like, click Activate; then go back to the CC App and click Install Family.

    Seems like there should be a menu command within InDesign to click on to start me on that 3-app journey. 

    Like, for example, File > Browse in Bridge. 

    There could be a File > Browse Fonts or maybe Type > Browse Fonts

    Mike Witherell
    rob day
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    rob dayCommunity Expert
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    June 10, 2024

    but shouldn't there be an equally explicit button inside InDesign

     

    I think so.

     

    I use an AppleScript to do it from InDesign, but that would only work with MacOS. I don’t know of a way to launch a browser and load a URL with ExtendScript.

     

    --for Firefox
tell application "Firefox"
	activate
	open location "https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts"
end tell

--Safari
tell application "Safari"
	activate
	make new document with properties {URL:"https://fonts.adobe.com/my_fonts/"}
end tell

     

     

    find a design I like, click Activate; then go back to the CC App and click Install Family.

     

    FWIW, all I do is find the font I want to use, click the Add Font or Add Family button, and the font automatically gets added to the InDesign font menu—there can be a delay depending on the connection.

     

     

    leo.r
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    leo.rCommunity Expert
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    June 11, 2024

    ...and in addition to @rob day's scripts, this script will open the website in your default browser:

     

     

    open location "https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts"

     

      rob day
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      rob dayCommunity Expert
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      June 10, 2024

      Hi Mike, In your Creative Cloud app there is Fonts>Browse more fonts...

       

      Derek Cross
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      Derek CrossCommunity Expert
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      June 10, 2024

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      Jeffrey_SmithCommunity Expert
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      June 10, 2024

      When opening a doc, are you referring to the dialog message of missing fonts, and the activate button that appears next to the adobe font?

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