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• • March 17, 2018 at 4:39 am #102468
    Tamás Nagy

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    Hi friends,

    could anyone tell me please how could I delete most of the font styles InDesign offers when I open (for example) the “Font styles” pulldown menu in the Find/Change palette? It looks like an ever expanding list for me: any time I use a who-knows-where-made font with an exotic fontstyle name in InDesign, the syle name is recorded in this list and it stays there forever.

    Many thanks in advance for your kind answer:
    Tamás
    :)

    P.S.
    I’m sorry if this question is already answered somewhere but I couldn’t find it using the Search command. :/

  • March 17, 2018 at 9:33 am #102471
    Dwayne Harris

    Member

    Mac OS or Windows?

  • March 17, 2018 at 9:50 am #102472
    Tamás Nagy

    Participant

    momentarily Win 10. But I regularly work on Macs too so both are interesting for me.

    • March 17, 2018 at 11:44 am #102473
      Dwayne Harris

      Member

      Maybe some of the links in this google search might be helpful:

      https://www.google.com/search?q=clearing+InDesign+font+list&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1

  • March 17, 2018 at 12:35 pm #102474
    Tamás Nagy

    Participant

    Thank you Dwayne for your answer but it’s not that. These topics are mostly about the installed fonts either in Windows/Mac system or in Adobe’s or inDesign’s Fonts folder or the “Document fonts” subfolder of the document’s location.

    I don’t know how to insert an image here so I can’t show you it now but when you select Find/Change from the main menu, then click on the upper magnifying glass then you get to the Find attributes (or what) palette, where you can select the font family you would like to find. It’s not what I’m talking about yet but right below this there is a Font style dropdown menü. That’s it.

    Now: in that menu there is a swarm of unknown font styles, at least unknown for me. Font style “E” or “M” for example, or “Banner Italic”. “Arial Bold” is a font we all know. “Arial M” or any other font family with font style “M”… well…

    These exotic font styles make this list unusably long, that’s why I’d like to shorten it somehow.

    • March 17, 2018 at 1:33 pm #102476
      Dwayne Harris

      Member

      Sorry for misunderstanding, Tamás. As the links and David said–it’s about installed fonts. For example, I never use a “cursive” font, but I do have a system font which has a “cursive.”

  • March 17, 2018 at 12:53 pm #102475
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Unfortunately, that list is created automatically by InDesign based on the fonts you have installed. So if you have a font that has a “Heavy” style, then “Heavy” will appear in the list.

    I recommend using a font management utility such as Extensis Fusion or Linotype FontAgent Pro to turn off the fonts you are not currently needing to use.

  • March 18, 2018 at 8:06 am #102477
    Tamás Nagy

    Participant

    Thank you both, in this case I think I will try to kill my Win10 again by removing 5-600 fonts. :)

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