Additional Fonts in Goodies Folder

[John_Niederkorn@adobeforums.com]

There are additional fonts in the InDesign install CD, Goodies Folder. Where do you put these fonts so ALL of my Adobe products can you them?

[Bob_Levine]

What version of Windows?

Bob

[Jim_Oblak@adobeforums.com]

Is this a trick question? You put them with your other system fonts so that any program can use them.

[Bob_Levine]

Not on earlier versions of Windows, IIRC. I don't think Win 98 had
support for OpenType. You'd need ATM for that.

Bob

[Jim_Oblak@adobeforums.com]

True - but my mind reading capabilities indicate that this is not an issue for John. He is running Microsoft® Windows® 2000 with Service Pack 2, Windows XP® Home Edition, or Windows XP Professional Edition.

[Stuart_McCoy@adobeforums.com]

Actually you should really use a Font Manager like ATM Deluxe or Suitcase and place non-system fonts in their own folder (i.e. c:\fonts) and install any new ones here. You'll need to dig through the Adobe app folders as there may be fonts installed in each apps directory structure. I moved all of them into c:\fonts and organized this directory based on where the fonts came from. Suitcase can be used to organize then further into things like Pro fonts, Serif fonts, Sans Serif fonts, etc. The system font folder can handle only so many fonts and if you put too many in there it can cause problems with the OS or fonts may fail to load properly or both.

[John_Niederkorn@adobeforums.com]

I'm sorry for not getting back sooner. It is not a trick question. I am using XP Pro. I thought there should be a common folder where all of your fonts go in so all of your other tools could use them. Since it costs over $4,000 for the Adobe font library and it comes with 10 licenses (which doesn't make much sense to me since there is only one of me) I just wanted as many as possible in one place.

[Bob_Levine]

Then you really need a font manager. There's simply no reason to have
that many fonts active and a whole lot of reasons not to.

Bob

[John_Niederkorn@adobeforums.com]

Bob, Stuart, & Jim

Thank you all for your help. I will order ATM Deluxe on Monday. I had always wanted to buy the entire font library because I receive a lot of documents and someone always uses an oddball font. But since I am a staff of one it is impracticle to buy a 10-license minimum font library. This will at least help with combining all of my fonts from Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Acrobat plus the goodies. I appreciate the answers.