Fontinstaller
With this script you can organize customer and project fonts well in InDesign
Why do you need font management in InDesign?
Sure, everyone already has font management.
Either all the fonts for all customers and all projects are simply stored in the system, or you have a font management program.
Or you can reinvent the wheel with every project!
With the script “Install Fonts” you can create order in your projects!
You’ll often encounter this situation in files
You have created a folder for each of your customers that contains all of the customer’s fonts . Or, if that’s too many fonts, you have individual folders offonts for the projects . Nice and neatly sorted.
Now you get a file from one of your customers. You open the and, of course, all the client’s fonts are missing – no font is active in the system.
No problem! Work with the “Install Font” script and activate all the fonts you need for the InDesign file! Whew, that was fast!
Step 1:
Sort all fonts into customer or project folders
The script can’t help you with that ! 😁
Step 2:
Define the font folder in Octopus
Mit dem Knopf „Liste aus Ordner hinzufügen“ kannst du die Kunden- und Projektordner im Script hinterlegen.
Now the script knows in which folder which fonts are for which customer or for which project.
Note: The script does not alter the fonts stored in your folders on your hard drive at any time!!
Step 3:
Install fonts
Once you’ve selected a “Fonts” folder for a client or project, you’ll see the fonts it contains at the bottom of the window.
Clicking “Install document fonts from this list” copies all the fonts used by the document to the “document fonts” folder next to the open document!
Step 4:
Reopen document
The fonts in the Document fonts folder are honored by InDesign only when the file is opened. Therefore, the script suggests to close the file and open it again. If it has been changed, the script will tell you that it must be saved.
Great, isn’t it?
You can also see how the script works in the video:
FAQ:
“Document fonts” are an invention of Adobe and therefore not an invention of the “Install Fonts” script!
The idea is that there is a “document fonts” folder in the same directory as one or more InDesign files.
When a file is opened, InDesign looks to see if any missing fonts are in a folder of that name in the same directory. If this is the case, these fonts are activated for the document.
Attention: These fonts are only active for the documents that are located in the same directory and not for other InDesign files!
You can also create such a folder yourself. But pay attention to the exact spelling: “Document fonts”.
True. If you need the fonts in Photoshop or Illsutrator, the “Document fonts” folder won’t help you.
Well, that depends on how you want to work.
Yes, with the way the script works, fonts are copied and end up in multiple folders.
However, this way all fonts are in the correct folders. Öffnest du Jahre später eine InDesign-Datei hast du alle Schriften, die für das Projekt benötigt werden, musst du sie dir nicht zusammensuchen.
Have a look at the lists of the set font folders. Are there very many fonts included? So, really many?
Then it may be because the script needs a moment to be opened.
The old Postscript fonts (also called PS1 fonts, are no longer supported in current versions of InDesign and Photoshop are no longer supported. Therefore Project-Octopus does not support them.
Adobe fonts (formerly Typekit) are also not supported by Project-Octopus. These are not managed in the system like other fonts.