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Font activation (June 2020) - InDesign Tutorial

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Font activation (June 2020)

- [Instructor] Auto activation of Adobe Fonts was a feature that is not new to 2021, but it wasn't there when 2020 was first released. It was one of those features that Adobe released in the middle, in June of 2020. So I guess you could call it 2020 and a half. Whether or not you updated to the latest version of 2020, you may not even have realized the feature existed because it's not turned on by default. Let me show you how it works. So first I'm going to open up a document that I know I do not have all the fonts loaded for. So this one right here, and I get this dialog box that's familiar to everybody, there's missing fonts here. Now, because the missing fonts, at least some of them are in the cloud, they're part of my subscription. They're in fonts.adobe.com, I can activate them right from the screen and have them added. And in my experience, this works great about 75% of the time. Often I have to jump to fonts.adobe.com and activate them myself. So I'm going to skip right now, and this is what we end up with, these fonts are missing. We get the dreaded pinking indicating substituted fonts. We can look under the tight menu at find replace fonts and see that these are missing here as well. So what is the fix other than manually activating them? Let's try this, I'm going to close the document, and then I'm going to go to preferences, which on a Mac is under InDesign here, and Windows, it's under the help menu. And go down to file handling, right way down here. And I'm going to turn on the new feature, Auto activate Adobe Fonts, like that. Click okay. Now let's open up that same document. Open it up. Sometimes, you'll still see the dreaded pinking, but other times it'll just magically disappear. I mean, you'll open up the document, you won't see any pinking at all, you'll just get that alert that we just saw that fonts were activated, it's wonderful. And other times the pinking will stay there for a while because your internet connection is slow or Adobe servers are slow. So if up here you see a little circle, animation circle like I'm thinking, I'm thinking, that means it's having trouble connecting to the Adobe servers. So you might want to go there on your own, to fonts.adobe.com, which I already have queued up over here. And here's my fonts and here's my Adobe Fonts over here, but this is what it's doing, is it's just making a shortcut really quick to you having to activate and deactivate fonts, and it does it for you. I would say, it's better than their previous, it's not perfect yet, I think about 85% of the time, it works a treat and it's really be nice not having to see that missing fonts dialogue box ever again. Of course, assuming that you're only using Adobe Fonts. It doesn't work if you're using regular open type fonts that are on your hard drive. Another good reason to use Adobe Fonts.

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