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Every time I open an old indesign file. I am getting a window for typekit. I use suitcase and all the fonts are located there. Not installed on my computer. (I have 9800 fonts so you get the idea).
It will not find my suitcase fonts even if they are open - I need it off ASAP any help will be appreciated.
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I have Typekit turned off per the instructions above, and the sync dialog *still* pops up every time I open an ID file with a missing font. I use FontAgent Pro, and FAP will activate the missing fonts automatically. The fonts, when activated, disappear from the Typekit dialog -- but I am *forced* to click the Close button to dismiss the Typekit dialog. The Typekit sync-warning dialog needs to dismiss itself without a click, or there should be a pref to keep it from showing at all, for those of us who use a font manager. Ideally, I should be able to turn off the box entirely to keep it from appearing at all. Turning off Typekit from the CC prefs does NOT stop this behavior. Please fix this.
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Make a feature request:
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Hi Jonathan,
I'm sorry for any frustration here. The missing fonts dialog box is a feature of the Adobe apps but doesn't come from Typekit. Typekit has been added as a feature of the missing fonts dialog but Typekit doesn't prompt the missing fonts dialog box to show up.
InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, are looking for the installed fonts and aren't finding them (either because they aren't installed or have become deactivated.) This brings up the missing fonts dialog which allows you to find the fonts on your computer or sync from Typekit if they're available.
This is something we're working to improve. I just wanted to give you some insight into what's going on under the hood in case that helps. Let me know if you have any further questions or comments.
Cheers,
Benjamin
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Thanks, Benjamin.
What you're saying is that this is an InDesign issue, not a TypeKit issue, right? (I have not had the box appear in Illustrator or Photoshop.) So should I take it up in the InDesign forum?
Jonathan
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Hi Jonathan,
If the missing fonts dialog box in InDesign is showing fonts that are already installed, I would reach out to the InDesign team/forum to see what's going on. It sounds like the fonts are becoming deactivated somehow.
I hope that helps. Let me know if you have any further questions.
Cheers,
Benjamin
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Not really the case -- the fonts are not activated and not getting deactivated. The missing fonts dialog appears before FontAgent Pro has a chance to automatically activate the font, which it will do within moments. I then have to click the "close" button on the missing fonts dialog.
So A) I don't want that box to appear at all, because I use FAP to manage my fonts, and B) if it absolutely, positively has to appear for some reason, I want it to dismiss automatically when FAP activates the fonts.
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I've just tried this... hopefully it works.
1) To turn on Typekit, launch your Creative Cloud application.
2) From the dropdown menu at the upper right (looks like a gear next to a downward pointed triangle) click the flyout menu and click Preferences.
3) Click the Fonts tab at the top and under Settings click the radio button to turn Typekit Off.
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There is a problem with this question. It's the title. It shouldn't be
'How do I get rid of Typekit'
It should be
'How do I completely annihilate any association with this feature and so many more GARBAGE features of CC introduced in recent years for absolutely no good whatsoever'
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The answer is: You don't subscribe to the Creative Cloud applications. It's impossible to get rid of those features that you don't like because they are totally wrapped around each other. It would be like trying to take the yolk out of an egg. You would have to break the egg to do it.
Moaning here that you don't like it will not make it happen. The great majority of Creative Cloud users are happy with those features. If it weren't so, Adobe wouldn't be thriving and ADDING CUSTOMERS.
Find some other software which you're happy with. Check out QuarkXPress or Affinity Designer.
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Hi I've used Quark since its inception: Indesign was always a cheap version and the links in with other Adobe software which harvests data via broadband, at the expense of the user's time.
Can you tell me how you're privy to the knowledge that backs this up, Steve? You're an industry insider then, I take it:
'The great majority of Creative Cloud users are happy'
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You could start that thread. It would be pretty short, with Steve's answer being marked as 'correct'.
Or you could tell us your specific issue and someone might be inclined to try helping you with it.
I use Typekit, along with FontExplorer. They integrate quite well (it would be nice if FontExplorer let you permanently deactivate Typekit fonts like it does other cloud fonts, though), and the range of fonts you get with Typekit pretty fantastic, so I'm pretty happy.
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You know that even if I had the marketing data that Adobe had that I would never be allowed to publish it here.
But it's not arguable that Adobe has been doing very well. You can read that in Adobe's reports to their shareholders who are certainly happy. The number of subscribers continue to increase.
Among the users I know and those I teach to, I never hear the griping I here hear. I know of no one who has a problem with Typekit.
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I’ve got my share of gripes but Typekit is not one of them.
It’s near the top of my favorite features of Creative Cloud.
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Effectively - back in the real world - CC was opted for as was cheap, so bosses went for it. However the machines it was to be installed on are usually/never not new. This from first hand experience, and from others in the biz.
So you have basic machines with basic RAM (operating email/internet etc) to find that not so basic defined CC lags and crawls as we multitask through the day and night on newspapers, magazines, flyers, digital/digital adaptations, videos you name it... and then you have apps like Acrobat which simply freezes at will... why? because no doubt Adobe specialists are happily working from their bases on nice dedicated hardware/systems receiving all sorts of cheap broadband-bourne data. All at our expense.
You, I suspect wouldn't have had such real world experience?
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This is not a new problem. The world moves forward and new features and capabilities are added. So should your hardware. You can't use the same hardware you were using 10 or 20 years before. This should be presented to the bosses. Tell them you are losing productivity because they're not upgrading the hardware. Relatively speaking, current computer hardware is cheap.
You can't blame Adobe for bad management.
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This is more a situation of general office/prepess workflows, not simply the standalone units, and also legacy files and habits of others.
Cut a long story short when you are creating the myriad of materials cluster-demanded from you - magazines, large conference backdrops, preparing cut fold lines, small format you name it - it all builds up and Adobe's interactive features (which it seems can't all be curtailed) really hinder. Really really hinder.
I mean you can key in anything online so the reality of simply standing up and walking to your boss in the midst of this and demanding new gear...really? It's that simple to you?
His/her response would be to go back and scam a cheap new employee online, effectively. That, to me is how 'the world moves forward'.
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Have you tried working on newspapers, magazines, flyers, digital/digital adaptations etc, with Quark on a basic computer configured for email/internet recently?
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No, go ahead Danny, quite keen to know. I worked with Quark developers a few years back and knew they were struggling with the ascent of CC and tbh Quark wasn't looking great. I mean if you could effortless flip between your page and Pshop (the big spin from Adobe) then everything would be suddenly magic and people would soon be cutting up and creating interactive mags on their iPads!
... as absolutely nobody looks at now.
Off the point however: haven't had the necessity to try this as you have... tell more?
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No, of course I haven't. It's just that your last post seemed to suggest that you think you should be able to do such things with Adobe CC. Point being, you can't do that kind of work on a basic computer with any software.
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If you go to CC, on the right side of the window is a gear, press it.
Go to preferences, click creative cloud, click fonts, and turn TypeKitoff.
TypeKit is the inferior product forced upon users by the money grubbers on the board of directors that is hap hazzardly forced down the unwitting throats of everyone. Adobe typeset will bypass fonts loaded on your machines in an effort to sell, sell, sell you fonts that you already own and have loaded in your library on your system. Get rid of it, better yet don't download it al all.
It's amazing that all of the Adobe "technical experts" couldn't guide you through the simple instructions I just gave you. Exemplifies why Adobe's monopoly should be broken up by the feds.
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Monopoly? Seriously?
I'm sure the folks at Quark and Affinity might disagree with you.
Oh, and Typekit is fabulous. I love having access to thousands of fonts. You can't download Typekit, it's a service.
Your entire rant shows a great deal of ignorance. If you're having issues and want help I'm sure you can get some here but you'll need to ask for it and dial your attitude back a bit.
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i use suitcase, and i use the fonts i know i have in my suitcase fusion libraries. just work with those. don't use the ones that have the typekit logo next to them in the character list when you are selecting type.