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Reload active fonts without restarting InDesign

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    • January 7, 2019 at 9:25 am #113412
      Willem Thissen
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      Hi There.

      I’ve updated to CC 2019 and my older version of Suitcase Fusion does not come with the auto activation plug-ins for CC 2019. (Shame on you Extensis! We all know it’s perfectly possible to provide users of older versions of Suitcase with updated plugins! In stead of forcing users to pay 60 dollars every time a new version of CC comes out!)

      But anyway… Back to my question. Is there a way to refresh the active fonts in InDesing, after I activated some fonts in Suitcase, without having to restart the application?

      I can live without the auto activation. But only if it doesn’t mean restarting InDesign every time I activate a font.

      Hope someone here can help.

    • January 7, 2019 at 12:00 pm #113416
      Colleen Shannon
      Member

      The folder with your job in it should always have: the .indd file, a folder named (exactly) Document fonts and a Links folder. As a rule, InDesign will activate fonts that are in this folder. It’s good practice to File->Package at the beginning and end of a job so you have the folder InDesign is looking for. (I’ve been doing this for a long time, fonts don’t even need to be activated in FontBook for this to work)

      David gave us this tip; hope it works for you!

    • January 7, 2019 at 4:42 pm #113418
      Dwayne Harris
      Member

      Colleen gave a great answer.

      As an aside, I have never used the auto activation plug-ins.

    • January 7, 2019 at 5:41 pm #113420
      Willem Thissen
      Member

      But what if I activate a font, while working on a file, that is not in this folder? I still have to restart InDesign to load that font. Was looking for a solution for that. Any Ideas?

    • January 9, 2019 at 12:48 pm #113446
      Colleen Shannon
      Member

      Sorry, Willem – sounds like either a problem with this version of Suitcase, but make sure you have fonts cleaned up on your end. (Remove unused out of Font Book, keep the amount of activated Suitcase fonts low, etc)

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