Font's...manage through indesign server or os?

Hi,
I'm just getting started with InDesign Server, and working with packaged .indd file (i.e all elements in a nice folder structure).
My question is, if i'm uploading a new package onto my server, and want to use the fonts for that artwork, do I need to manually, or through some form of automation add the fonts to the windows server, or is there a function in the InDesign Server that deals with importing / loading fonts?
Any help much appreciated!
Many thanks,
Brett

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With that number of produced documents your topmost issue will be speed. For that reason I'd try to not use IDML and outside processing - to open an existing document is much faster than to import it from IDML, and if you can reuse the same template document without close-open, it will be even faster. InDesign has many features such as conditional text, text variables, counters that could be utilized. Your script would then work straight on the document object model, given an input such as tab delimited text or xml.
It is possible to communicate from .net applications with InDesign, but here you should also run comparisons with VBScript and ExtendScript which both have the advantage to run within the InDesign process. There are also other advantages of VBScript and ExtendScript - controlling InDesign can be a bit inconvenient for strongly typed languages like C#, even though it is doable. The community and thus possible support is larger for ExtendScript.
Output will work in all mentioned formats. You might get along with a PDF-only workflow, but as you mentioned the print supplier may have special requirements.
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