I'd sincerely try to get in touch with Fontbase support. If you think that it's an Adobe Bug you can report bugs or make a feature request Save the file as a new InDesign file with a new name If a document is not behaving well then try In the question What are the best font management software tools FontBase is ranked 2nd while NexusFont is ranked 3rd. Reinstalling rarely fixes everything - you can do a complete reinstall using the 73 36 When comparing NexusFont vs FontBase, the Slant community recommends FontBase for most people. A dialog will appear asking to delete the InDesign Preferences, select 'Yes' on this dialog.įurther info and instructions here if needed: For Fontbase on Windows, just found a solution on Reddit : Change the Root folder. The easiest way to reset everything is to delete the InDesign preferences: as soon as InDesign starts to boot hold down Shift, Alt, Ctrl (and Apple/Cmd if working on a Macintosh). And finally if you feel like this is more of a bug than a suggestion. Some fixes you might want to try - from my collection of standard fixes I don't think this is an Adobe thing - it sounds more like a Fontbase thing - but I could be completely wrong. It seems like the fonts do deactivate once you close Fontbase - and one of their own solutions is to try relaunching the fonts or the application. I don't know what the answer is here - as I am not a fontbase user - however, reading their information on their website I'm not interested in justification as to why Adobe does this, and I am near certain a suggestion to Adobe will be either ignored or not done anytime soon. And no, updating to a newer OS is unfortunately not an option right now. No luck.įor reference I am using Indesign v. I even removed the font dialogue window extension from the Adobe Indesign folder. or deactivating a large number of fonts in Font Book, FontAgent, FontBase. I completely disabled adobe fonts within creative cloud. Font Book allows the user to disable far more unnecessary fonts than Big Sur. However, it's still incredibly time consuming to close every time, and not information I necessarily need. And the fact that the font is, in fact, not missing! Feels like Adobe's way of forcing you to use their Adobe fonts only.Īdmittedly, it is popping up to show me that bold and italic versions of the font are missing. Approximately doubles the time it takes to try out different fonts in a document, not to mention the irritation and fatigue. I can't begin to describe how intrusive and slowing this is. Even pops up and takes priority if I switch windows. However, literally every single time that I change a font in 'character styles' from a Fontbase activated font, I get the popup saying that the Font is missing, and I need to install it. It has a feature which automatically updates fonts in Adobe programs, when I activate a font in Fontbase. It's much easier to use than Adobe's font manager, and also includes Google fonts and fonts I download from other sites nicely. I am using fontbase to manage my fonts from multiple sources.
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