![]() There are five popular font managers available for Macintosh: Some Macintosh font managers are also available for Windows there may be more that are Windows-only. ![]() Since most of my creative work is done on Macintosh, I can only discuss what’s available for macOS. There are a range of competent applications: each with their advantages and disadvantages, and a different selection for Macintosh and Windows. Next, let’s look at what font managers are available on the market today. They in turn will have their own licence agreements, which may – or may not – grant you the right to collect their font files with your Illustrator or InDesign project packages. If you want to package typefaces that are available on Adobe Fonts for archiving, then the only way you’ll be able to do so is to license those typefaces directly from the typefoundries in question. But you cannot collect Adobe Fonts typefaces as part of an Illustrator or InDesign project package for archiving. You can embed Adobe Fonts typefaces into PDF files. You can convert text formatted using Adobe Fonts typefaces into vector outlines if you like. You can use any typeface available on Adobe Fonts to create designs and layouts. These font files are also specifically tagged as being ‘Adobe Fonts’ files: a form of copyrighting that all Adobe applications will respect. When you activate a typeface from Adobe Fonts, the font files are installed on your computer, but not directly in the operating system’s font folders. Adobe Fonts gives you convenient access to a diverse range of typefaces, but it’s on Adobe’s licensing terms. And you’ll notice that there’s wording next to it that effectively says ‘Except Adobe Fonts’. One of those checkboxes – which is checked by default – is ‘Copy Fonts’. If you look closely at the ‘File > Package’ dialogue box, you’ll notice a set of checkboxes allowing you to choose what files get collected. However, if you ever try to collect Adobe Fonts font files when using Illustrator and InDesign’s ‘Package’ feature, you’ll notice that you can’t. And it all has to do with whether your layout includes typefaces that are from the Adobe Fonts service that’s part of you Creative Cloud subscription.Īdobe Fonts allows you access to thousands of fonts from dozens of independent typefoundries, and they can be conveniently activated when needed. ![]() The first part is fairly easy to answer, although you may not necessarily like the answer itself. ![]()
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