Where is the menu command or button to fonts.adobe.com

[Mike Witherell]

Hi gang,

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

[Jeffrey_Smith]

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?

[Derek Cross]

[rob day]

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

[Mike Witherell]

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

[rob day]

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]

...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"

[Mike Witherell]

Thanks Rob. Script to the rescue!

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