Fonts. Can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em. Sometimes you can’t get ’em to load properly in InDesign. And sometimes you might’ve wished you could have some fonts available to a specific document (or to InDesign in general) and not activate them on your computer.
And indeed you can make fonts available only in InDesign or in a specific document, by using a pair of special folders, as David Blatner shows in the latest InDesign Secrets video at lynda.com.
In the video, David demonstrates the use of a Document Fonts folder and the Fonts folder inside InDesign’s application folder. These two “magical” folders will give you more control over font activation, and using them is a snap once you know the Secrets.
This article was last modified on March 5, 2025
This article was first published on August 29, 2014
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