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Very odd. Surprised by this. Won't be back at the Mac til the new year
If you look a few posts up, you'll see that I already linked to that exact page, and if you were to read that page, it says exactly what I've been saying since my first post in this thread – any fonts installed in the system folder can no longer (since macOS 13) be disabled…
By @Mayhem SWE
Never written a proper plug-in before, but what the hell, how difficult can it be.
On the scripting side you could build your own font panel and skip the system’s required fonts (there nothing in the JS API that lets you alter the application panels). A simple example would be a dialog dropdown. This creates a dropdown that skips Apple’s Systen and Supplemental font folders, and Adobe’s CC2024 required fonts:
makeDialog();
var fnt;
function makeDialog(){
var d = app.dialogs.add({name:"Choose a Font", canCancel:true});
with(d){
with(dialogColumns.add()){
fnt = dropdowns.add({stringList:getFontList(), selectedIndex:0, minWidth:80});
}
if(d.show()){
fnt = getFontList()[fnt.selectedIndex];
app.selection[0].appliedFont = app.fonts.itemByName(fnt)
d.destroy();
}
}
}
/**
* Discription get a list of fonts
* Adobe Required InDesign CC2024:
* /Applications/Adobe%20InDesign%202021/Resources/Required/fonts
* Adobe Cloud"
* /Volumes
* System Fonts:
* /System/Library/Fonts
* System Fonts Supplemental MacOS Ventura:
* /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental
* @ return Font name as an array
*/
function getFontList(){
var fa = []
var afp = app.fonts.everyItem().getElements()
var fp, fn;
for (var i = 0; i < afp.length; i++){
fp = File(afp[i].location);
fn = afp[i].fontFamily
//Get a list of font families that skips MacOS System fonts, Supplemental fonts and CC2024 Required
if (fp.parent != "/System/Library/Fonts" && fp.parent != "/System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental" && fp.parent != "/Applications/Adobe%20InDesign%202024/Resources/Required/fonts") {
if (!checkItem(fa, fn)) {
fa.push(fn)
}
}
};
return fa
}
/**
* Checks if an item is in an array
* @ param the array to check
* @ param the item to look for
* @ return true if the item is in the array
*
*/
function checkItem(a, obj) {
for (var i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {
if (a[i] === obj) {
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
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