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• • June 4, 2022 at 8:01 am #14366437
    Steve Hall

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    @david-blatner

    My years of getting by with poor technical skills have caught up with me. I packaged a simple indesign business card file and subsequently examined the contents of the folder [the fonts were apparently ‘protected’] and fonts are not appearing in the package folder.

    This led to a search for help in ‘unprotecting’ fonts, which yielded little. I use @FontAgent, which is a long term mystery to me [see ‘poor technical skills’ above]. I searched FontAgent as well, unsuccessfully. After about an hour of screwing around with this I pasted the offending fonts into the Indesign packaged file folder, hoping that the poor soul at the printing company on the other end will know what to do.

    I’ve decided that it’s time to clean up the fonts on my machine and start fresh. Note: I’m turning 70 in August, which would que the reader of this post [or David Blatner] to think, “Just leave things the way they are. You’re opening a hornet’s nest. You’ll retire soon enough.” [Maybe 75].

    I run my enterprise on a 2020 M1 MacBook Air running Monterey. I have yet to deal with the upcoming Type-1 font apocalypse. I have discovered flex fonts, which are very cool, but not workflow capable for me yet. I have encountered the long list of Noto fonts [who’s idea was this!?] and finagled a way for them not show up. BTW, everytime I update to a new machine or Mac OS, the contents of my drive [including fonts] are dragged forward. I hate to imagine the duplicated fonts showing up in a search.

    Complicated instructions will not help [see again: ‘poor technical skills’ above]. I have active clients and all my work is original. I pick the fonts [a fairly short list].

    Any ideas?

    http://www.efsmart.com

  • June 4, 2022 at 5:30 pm #14366441
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    There are very few fonts that are protected in such a way that Package won’t grab them. It’s possible, but rare. More common is that you’re using Adobe Fonts. Package doesn’t grab those because Adobe figures that if you have a Creative Cloud subscription and your printer has one, then you don’t need to send them… the printer will just sync the fonts on their end.

    On the other hand, I virtually never send packaged files to the printer anymore because it’s FAR easier/better/more reliable to just send them a PDF file.

    There, too, it’s possible that a font can be protected in such a way that it can’t be embedded in a PDF, but that’s pretty rare.

    If you need to, you could conceivably export to PDF and convert the fonts to outlines on the fly:

    Converting Text to Outlines the Right Way, Updated

    More articles on these topics:

    How to Tell Which Files Use Type 1 PostScript Fonts

    How to Hide Noto Fonts in Your Font Menus

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