From the course: InDesign Secrets
243 Export all the fonts in a layout without packaging - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Secrets
243 Export all the fonts in a layout without packaging
- [Voiceover] When I'm working in InDesign, I often need to gather all the fonts that I've used in the document and, put them in a folder and give them to somebody. Like for example, if I have a co-worker, working on a different project for the same client, and they wanna use the same fonts, and we're not using any kind of special font management system rigmarole, I just wanna grab the fonts and give them to 'em. Or, I want to save them and do something else with them. Unfortunately, there's no direct way to export just the fonts used in this document to a file. So, what I'm gonna show you are the manual way to do that, and then also this new free script that you can use instead. So the manual way is, first of all go to the Type menu, and go down to Find Font, which is where, InDesign lists all the fonts used in this document. You select a font, and then choose Reveal in Finder, or Reveal in Explorer if you're looking at it in Windows. And it jumps you to the folder containing that font, and then you can copy and paste this into another folder and that way you can do it one font at a time, as you select these things, Reveal, there's that one, and so on. That is the manual way, big pain if you have many fonts for long documents. Or, there is an automated way in InDesign, but it's kind of overkill. You have to go to File Package, and this is usually what I do. Before I discovered the script that I'm gonna show you, go to File Package, as though you're going to package the entire document and all of its graphics, and all of its fonts into a special folder, and then just bring out the document fonts folder from there, and delete everything else. So in Package, I'm gonna click Continue, and then here on the desktop, it's gonna create this folder. I could turn off this, and turn off Include IDML and PDF, turn that off so, that is the closest automated way to do this. Turn everything else off, except for Copy Fonts, click Package. You get the warning about the fonts, and then here in the Finder, on the desktop you can see that it's just this, so this we can toss, and this we can toss, and now we have all of our fonts gathered in a folder, right? Now here is the automated way. Come over here, and grab that script, again, it was from my friend Justin Putney, and here is his company, Ajar Productions, here's the URL. Copy InDesign Fonts to Folder. It's a wonderful script and, it works with all different versions of InDesign. So we come over here where I've already installed it, in my Scripts Panel. Copy Fonts to Folder, and you just double click it, and we'll create a different folder here, we'll call it New Folder, and call it My Fonts for Bicycle Newsletter. Click Create, click Open, and it immediately exports just the fonts, and it gives us a nice little report, confirming that for every font that was in here, if it successfully exported it or not. So I click Okay and come back here to the Finder just to check, and My Fonts for Bicycle, there it is. I could've called this Document Fonts, so that it had the same facility as the Adobe exported document fonts, I could just rename this to Document Fonts here, and that means that when somebody puts this folder, at the same level as their InDesign file, InDesign will immediately look there first, and load these fonts on the fly. Now there's one difference between the Document Fonts Folder that the script created, and the one that InDesign created, do you see there's a few more fonts, I mean, I'm not talking about this Adobe font list, which is really not necessary. But, look here is that, Justin's script only brings over the Postscript file of Postscript fonts, so if you're using a Type 1 PostScript font, it doesn't bring along the screen font. I think that maybe if we paid him some money, he could rewrite it. But Adobe's own font export does bring over the screen and the printer font. That's one thing to keep in mind. Now, the other thing to keep in mind, that works the same as InDesign is that, it cannot export Typekit fonts, so it can't do any magic. Here we have a document that uses all Typekit fonts, if we go to Type, Find Font, and select these, and choose More Info, you'll see that it says Synced from Typekit for every one of these. But let's try it anyway. Go to Script and choose Copy Fonts and, we'll put 'em in a new folder on the desktop, we'll call this Typekit, what? Can it actually do that? Click Open and no, look at. Copy fail, copy fail, copy fail it's all it says, is copy fail for all these fonts so, you can't export Typekit fonts, and it can't export the screen versions of your PostScript fonts, but if you're mainly using TrueType and OpenType, like everybody is these days, then it works like a treat so, thank you very much Justin.
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229 Batch converting ID files to current version with the Book panel6m 9s
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230 Getting around InDesign limitations6m 46s
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231 Creating better callout lines with effects and object styles5m 47s
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232 Swapping column and row information in tables6m 9s
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233 Making bigger text link targets4m 52s
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161 Keeping page numbers on top of master items3m 55s
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162 Adding automatic currency symbols in a table cell or before text3m 50s
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163 Make a pop-up footnote for your ebook3m 48s
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164 Deleting tabs at the beginning of paragraphs and applying a paragraph style3m 10s
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165 Five InDesign Presentation tips6m 28s
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111 Packaging images on the pasteboard3m 32s
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112 Automatically updating figure references for books6m 9s
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113 Adding Tool Tips to your form fields in InDesign3m 21s
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114 Setting poetry, flush left, center on longest line3m 54s
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115 Use bookmarks to navigate long documents in production4m 57s
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107 Using the same keyboard shortcut for two different commands with the Context feature5m 22s
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108 Making a text highlighter3m 33s
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109 Updating an interactive PDF without losing work done in Acrobat5m 30s
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110 Adding custom text at the beginning of each line automatically4m
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089 Three great Object Styles for any designer8m 1s
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090 Choosing alpha channel image transparency2m 25s
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091 Adding and reading metadata for InDesign files3m 25s
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092 Adding ALT tags to your images6m 59s
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093 How to Place & Link a text frame's text but not its formatting7m 4s
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094 Setting the baseline position of a caption2m 39s
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051 Five things that should be in every new file5m 19s
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052 Forcing EPUB page breaks with invisible objects6m 21s
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053 Understanding component information6m 39s
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054 Creating running heads using section markers4m 16s
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055 Making a font with InDesign using the IndyFont script5m 20s
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056 Finding where that color is used7m 17s
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047 Specifying an exact amount of space between objects5m 17s
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048 Fixing last lines that are too short8m 16s
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049 Creating web graphics from your InDesign artwork7m 20s
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050 Using “No Language” to suppress unwanted hyphenation, spell-checking, and smart quotes2m 48s
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037 Updating a linked table without losing formatting5m 18s
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038 Creating electronic sticky notes4m 49s
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039 Moving master page items to the top layer for visibility2m 48s
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040 Five guide tricks that will impress your coworkers6m 18s
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041 Letting InDesign add the diacritics4m 21s
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042 Using single-cell table cells for custom paragraph formatting6m 2s
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027 Creating running heads using variables5m 1s
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028 Live Caption tips and tricks8m 3s
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029 Making professional drop caps10m 37s
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030 Making two-state buttons in interactive documents5m 5s
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031 Moving pages from one document to another3m 15s
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032 Wrapping bulleted text around a curve5m 58s
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007 Selecting through and into objects using cmd-click and Select Above/Below5m 46s
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008 Some great tips and tricks for the Swatches panel9m 40s
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009 Saving down for backward compatibility with INX and IDML5m 54s
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010 Using the INX and IDML formats to fix problems4m 46s
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