Issues with fonts: cannot see font-family

Report · Jan 25, 2018

Hello

I have some issue with fonts.

1-In all adobe CS6 software (indesign, photoshop, etc) I cannot get fonts categorized by font-family. I mean the font function available in the toolbar, while the same function that is shown in font menu correctly shows the fonts categorized by family (in other words, I see ">" arrow next to font name).

Is there any way to get a font list categorized by font-family in the toolbar too?

2-In some cases font styles are not correctly shown in the style dropdown list. For Open Sans font, I got, for example: Light, Light-Italic, Regular, etc.(that is ok!). For many other fonts I got only "regular". In order to select the specific style I need to select the specific font name in font dropdown list. For example, Chartwell font has only "regular" style, while it should have Bar, Lines, Pies. So I need to select "Chartwell Bar", "Chartwell Lines", "Chartwell Pies” in the font dropdown list.

So, how can I correctly fill style dropdown list in this case?

3-My last issue is only related to InDesign, it does not occurs in Photoshop: if click on dropdown font, the current font is automatically selected in the "recent" font list (the first part of list), not in the complete font list (the list below). In photoshop, clicking on dropdown, the current font is selected in the complete font list (not in the most recent used font). The consequence of this issue is that if I digit some chars it will automatically select a font that starts with the char I digited but that is listed in the first (most recent) list. So I need to scroll down and select it manually.

Any suggestion?

Thank you for your help

Fabio

Report · Jan 25, 2018

Your #1 is nothing you can do about – nor can InDesign! These fonts do not contain correct meta-information, so InDesign cannot see that they belong to the same family. As far as ID is concerned they are as different as "Arial" versus "Times New Roman".

Contact your font supplier and point this out to them.

Report · Jan 25, 2018

#2

It is the same situation as in #1 described by Jongware - though it's not common to group different dingbat fonts in one font family. Traditionally the font faces regular / bold / italic / bold-italic are grouped and with the right meta tag still more than just these. Maybe you know that Microsoft Office gets hickups when displaying the groups.

#3

I'm afraid I did not quite understand the problem.

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InDesign:

You select a text frame.

The font list jumps to the used font and displays it.

In the dropdown the font (incl. it's family) is selected in the upper part (recently used fonts)

Now you want another font and you type the first 2 to 4 characters.

The font list now displays the matching fonts only.

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What exactly do you want InDesign to do?

--> If it's valuable for your workflow you can post a feature request.

Fenja

Report · Jan 25, 2018

Thank you for your replies.

Perhaps the cause of 3# problem is the way in which they are grouped. The font list contains some "blocks", each block is separated by a line, and it is separately sorted by font name.

For example, I got:

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DF Gothic-EB

...

YU Gothic UI

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Adobe Fan Heiti STD

...

PMing UU ExtB

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...

So, the search of font is very tedious. Why I got this behaviour?

Thanks

Report · Jan 25, 2018

Oh, I see.

I wish we could hide all the font blocks we never want to use. For example all the Chinese, Arabic, Korean, Japanese ... fonts.

Fenja

Report · Jan 25, 2018

fenjas29325284 so these font blocks means language blocks?

Report · Jan 25, 2018

More like alphabets than languages. The "Latin1" alphabet is used for English, French, German, Dutch and many more languages. Some alphabets happen to be used for only one language.