Font Selection laggy in InDesign CC

27" iMac 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 RAM, OSX 10.9
Adobe InDesign CC 9.1
Suitcase Fusion 5 Version 16.0.5 (603)
Since installing Mavericks have had terrible issues using InDesign on my less than 3 month old iMac.
Font selection is painfully slow as shown in this video...
http://vimeo.com/81705033
Sometimes when trying to change a fonts weight it won't even register the selection. As can be seen in the video I have the font "Interval" selected and am trying to change its weight. I cannot do that. I then select an alternative font (you will see how laggy the font menu is) and it then takes around 7 seconds to change to the new font once selected. I can then change back to Interval and select the desired weight.
I have turned off the font previews in preferences as I thought this might be what was causing these issues, but sadly not.
Not sure whether the issue is Mavericks, Adobe or Extensis.
We also have the same sorts of issues on another older Mac in our studio. Before Mavericks it was fine. Not sure if that is just coincidence.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Yes, it would have been installed in place. My boss did it while I was on holiday and have had no end of problems since it was upgraded to Mavericks.
So you think re-installing InDesign might do the trick. I'll have to give it a try. Thanks.

Similar Messages

I like to use collective fonts as microsoft word let me in the option fonts/collections but in InDesign CC only got favorites, why is this so limited, i like order and group fonts similar to work more selective and don't see hundreds of fonts. Please Desi

I got created a fonts collections in fonts catalog.app and i can see them in collections in the program microsoft word, unfortunately in InDesign CC is not posible, only got all the list of fonts available in the computer, the option to reduce the view of fonts is favorites or restrict by part of the name or type. I believe this feature most by included as default in InDesign CC. Manage fonts collection is a pretty good option to view big differents type of fonts selected together. even the smart collection are not visibles.

InDesign users use normally paragraph styles and character style, no need to sort out font collections. only when you set up the styles.
NEVER work without styles, don't us style overrides.
But you can type in any part of the font name and you get all fonts with this expression in the name, not necessary the first letters.

All fonts are missing in indesign

I closed my file last night with master pages items and text layers locked in the layers pallette.
The file is to the point that I have master pages set with columns, and guides, and pages, and footer with text. It is all layed out with images, ready to start typography. I used Myriad pro, and I think Bell ( this may have been brought in from dafont, not sure).
When I opened the file this morning it said that the fonts were missing. I tried to find the missing fonts, but ALL the fonts are missing in the font selection window.
This was when I realized that the layers were locked. I dont know if this had anything to do with it, but Ive never used layers before, so assume it is a connection.
I tried opening a new document and there are no fonts available there either. It says times, but you cant change it. It is showing pink backgound like when fonts are missing, and just Os'.
I opened illustrator to see if the fonts are available there, and they are, no problem. It is just indesign that is affected.
Can anyone help?
Mary

Try these solutions
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/526990
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/526991

Can i change the behavior of the character menu so that the list begins with the current font selected and not at the beginning of the list?

Im struggling with the way the font selection tab works in the character menu.
When i scroll down the list and select minion halfway down the list, the next time i click on the font tab, the list starts back at the top of the list making me scroll down the list every time i want to look for a font.
Can anyone offer some suggestions here?
thanks
jeff

You can't do it exactly the way you want, but if you have InDesign CC or CC 2014, you can set fonts in the Character panel or Control panel Type menu to be Favorites. Click the "star" beside a font to set it as a favorite. Then at the top of the menu, click the "star" filter to show favorites in your list instead of a list of all the fonts.

Fonts selection scrolls past one I need

I am using Indesiagn CS3. I am starting a new version of our catalogue using same CS3 as previous issue. It is a lot of merging so it is not being some from scratch. I am now unable many times (not all) to select the font I need. The cursor is unable to select the font I need and just flashes by and the font selection screen moves at a very rapid rate and I get what ever font if seems to select. I need to use the same fonts as in the last issue and cannot figure out what is happening. It is frustrating as I can not figure out what is causing this problem as I really need the fractions in the glyphs to show and the fraction selection is pretty slim in most fonts. Could I have corrupt fonts??? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Joan

There's no way I know to test other than to back them up and replace them. If the problem goes away, they were corrupt and you should trow out the backup set. If not, you can put the old set back to restore all the customizations that will be lost when you do the replacement. Read tyhe comments in Adobe InDesign CS4 * Setting preferences

AI CS4/CS5 Font selection sections

Hello,
I'd like to ask if there is any information available on how are the fonts in font selection dialog ordered - they are obviously grouped by script - latin, chinese, japanese, korean etc. What is the precise order of the groups? Is this order the same on every system(what if there are no fonts for a specific group installed) ?
+ Is there a possibility to swtich not just "English names" of Asian fonts, but to have both like seen in Indesign ?
thanks,
Alexander

Hello Mike,
can you perhaps answer the first query?
What is the precise order of the groups? Is this order the same on every system(what if there are no fonts for a specific group installed) ?
thanks,
Alexander

Is it possible for Applescript to know what link is selected in the Indesign Links Palette?

Hi there,
I've written some ApplesScripts for Indesign that act on all links, missing links and/or selected links, but what if I wanted to perform an action on a link that is only selected in the links palette?
Is it possible for AppleScript to know which link is selected in the Indesign links palette?
Regards,
David

Hi czigrand,
Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
Currently, you can gift dollar amounts or individual items (EG. songs) on the iTunes Store. See this article for more information:
In the iTunes Store, you can gift a dollar amount or specific music, movies, TV shows, or apps from your iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Mac, or PC. Follow these steps to send a gift from the iTunes Store.
iTunes: Sending iTunes Gifts
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2736
Best Regards,
Jeremy

Font selection view control in Web Gallery

LR4.1 RC2
I wanted to be able to change the font type from the UI panel using a font select popup.
This control really only seems to exist in the inbuilt edit modes (eg: id plate and watermark) so I have tried a workround which seems to work OK so far. Maybe it will help someone else out working with webengines.
Mac/OSX only at this stage - good source file in Windows may be font.inf but would require a bit of parsing or get a folder listing somehow.
Basically I read in the contents of the fonts.list file - which appears in the OSX fonts folders - and then massage the contents to get a raw list of the fonts.
This raw list is then read into a lua table and consumed by the UI popup control.
Should there be an obvious way that I haven't seen then just give me time to find a banana to eat ... anyway here goes -
Changing the font type for the cell index numbers.
Grid cells use cellIndex to give the photo number and in my webengine the css class is .itemNumber
Data Model references -   Note:   %s is important for select to work - if %q is used select will work but font won't change ( %q adds quotes to the string ).
            ["appearance.itemNumber.font"] = function() return string.format( "%s", nonCSS.itemNumberFontSize .. "px " .. nonCSS.itemNumber.font ) end,
            ["nonCSS.itemNumberFontSize"] = 60,
            ["nonCSS.itemNumber.font"] = "inherit",
            fontlistpath = LrPathUtils.child('/Library/Fonts','')    -- OSX Default fonts
Code just prior to LR UI Views -
        deffonts = templatepath .. "/pgresources/" .. 'osxdeffont.txt'      -- templatepath is the root path of the webengine - this is the tweaked OSX fonts.list file
        function readFontsFile( deffonts )
            local fileLines = io.lines( deffonts )
            ff3 = {}
            for line in io.lines(deffonts) do
Filter lines here ...
eg:   -
                line = string.sub(line, 17)   -- remove 1st 16 chrs        (/Library/Fonts//Osaka.ttf)
                line = string.gsub(line, "(.ttf)", "")
                local kline = line
                   local vline = line
                   table.insert(ff3, { title = kline ,value = vline })
            end
        end
LR UI View for font select -
            f:popup_row {
                title = "Font family :",
                bindingValue = "nonCSS.itemNumber.font",
                items = ff3,
                bindingEnabled = "appearance.itemNumber.display",   -- control should be disabled if display checkbox false
                tooltip = "Choose wisely Dave!",
Using this method is not perfect but gives a good selection of fonts - I found that to improve the success rate the default font file was copied into the webengine
resources folder and tweaked. eg: the default file gives Brush Script.ttf but I needed Brush Script MT to work, similarly with Arial Rounded Bold which needed changing
to Arial Rounded MT Bold
Basically to find the correct descriptions you could do far worse than to use the ones in the edit selections used by the ID Plate/watermarking features.
            Well there you go ...
As an aside I did try an undocumented control which on double click popped up a system font selection dialog (the whole nine yards) but couldn't get it to link to the css class so I didn't persist - not a good idea to use undocumented controls but can be fun to play with.
    f:font_picker {
        font = "Copperplate",     -- showed font as highlighted when picker opened.
        width = 80,
        value = "Arial",    -- appeared on control (title ??) - this value only changed according to the font selected after double-clicking on another hidden control (f:image_well)
        bindingValue = "nonCSS.itemNumber.font", -- linkage didn't work
Again, unless I missed it, it would be really good to have the font_picker documented and working for the web gallery views. Fonts seem to be a murky area -
probably accounts for the hassles I am getting with the watermarking feature as well.
Update :
If the font doesn't work try using the PostScript name as a value which invariably works.
eg: Handwriting - Dakota will not work but Handwriting-Dakota will.
     Arial Bold will not work but Arial-BoldMT will.

I don't think that there is any option to set the default view in the web album. If anyone has found an option to do this, then I will like to know as well.
Quite a lot of the settings in web album seams to be "hard coded" and only a few settings are available for users to control.
Karsten

I use classical Hebrew for my work, and Pages will only display English characters even with a Hebrew font selected. If I cut and paste Hebrew characters from another document, as long as the font is supported, it will appear in Pages. If I type it won't

I use classical Hebrew for my work, and Pages will only display English characters even with a Hebrew font selected. If I cut and paste Hebrew characters from another document, as long as the font is supported, it will appear in Pages. If I type it won't continue in Hebrew. I have tried downloading several fonts, including those from professional societies, but the only way to get Hebrew in my document is to cut and paste. Does anyone know how to fix this? I use an older MacBook running OS 10.9.1. I used to do my Hebrew work in Word, but it is no longer supported by Mac OS.

Just clarifying:
Pages '09 has bad support for Hebrew, Arabic etc but will accept pasted text.
Pages 5 has much better support but with bugs.
If you have columns they are in the wrong order ie Text starts in the left column and ends in the right column.
If you type English into Hebrew text it tends to fall in the wrong position eg instead of to the left of Hebrew punctuation it goes to the right.
As Tom recommends the only real solution on the Mac is Mellel.
Peter
btw Tell Apple, they are amazingly slow to fix this running sore which has been broken since RtoL was supposedly introduced in OSX 10.2.3 over a decade ago.
Peter

Find the Missing font text content in indesign document

How to find and get the missing font content in the indesign documents by using the SDK. give a tips and techniques.
Anybodys help me.

It wont answer your question, but you could have this problem too:
I have a problem in my current project where text frame having no text make the document report the usage of a font wich we dont want the project to use (times by exemple). The problem being that Indesign report usage of a font wich is in fact not applied to any text. Weird!
The easy fix is to identify those items (text frame class + no text) and reassign them as "unassigned".

Font selection by typing font name into from down field

I have noticed this since upgrading to Photoshop CC 2014:
When I want to select a font by typing its name's first few characters into the drop down field, all intuitiveness goes out of the window. The very first character I type gets dropped and rather than bringing me closer to the typeface I'm after, it starts presenting all fonts starting with the 2nd character I've typed. I.e. trying to get to the "Titillium" font selection, I start to type "Titil..." and it gives me the "i" listings in my large number of fonts. This is happening on all my installations of Photoshop CC 2014 (3 different Windows computers and setups).
Is this a bug or another example of second-guessing what might be helpful when it actually isn't? Not getting the logic of why I have to type "AArial" if I want to get to the "Arial" font in the selection box.
I know I can simply scroll down in the list of fonts to get to the one I want to use, but in the land of shortcuts, surely scrolling should only ever be the 2nd best choice.
Looking forward to some insight.

New features summary
Search for fonts
New in this release of Photoshop CC
You can now quickly search for fonts in the Text tool options bar and Character panel font lists. As you type the name of your desired font family, Photoshop filters the list on the fly. You can search for fonts by font family or by style. Font search doesn't support wildcards.
Search for fonts by font family or font style

Selection tool in InDesign doesn't proportionally resize an object, object is distorted.

When I click the selection tool in InDesign, the object's frame is highlighted but the diagonal arrows that normally appear at the corners are no longer there. When I click shift/command and then try and drag the corner, the object distorts. Also, the object's "grabber" no longer appears in the middle of the frame. This just started to happen. What is the solution? Sounds like discarding preferences doesn't do the trick.

I assumed it wouldn’t help based on other comments. Using Mac OS X 10.9.3, ID CSS 6 version 8.
I just logged out and then logged in and the problem cleared up but did the same thing before and it cleared up and then came back. Any ideas why this is intermittent?
Thanks.

Missing "Find fonts" menu item in InDesign CS6

I need to delete some fonts from an existing InDesign document, however, the "Find Fonts" menu is missing. I see "Create outlines" and "Change case" but nothing in between where the find fonts command is supposed to be.
Thanks for any help. Richard

Try: Troubleshooting 101: Replace, or "trash" your InDesign preferences
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/526990

Is there an option to remove or deactivate the fonts that came with Indesign CC?

Is there an option to remove or deactivate the fonts that came with Indesign CC? I have to scroll through a long list of fonts that I never use wich is quite annoying.
I

Thank you for your reply. Unfirtunally that is not the solution. I have looked very closely but I don't have a bent arrow (I work on an iMac Indesign CC 2014).
And I don't want to filter them out, I want to delete those fonts Adobe gave me because I don't use them.

Font Selection Problem

Post Author: Yousafi
CA Forum: Publishing
Hi Everyone.I have Problem In Font Selection. I Need To Select Courier Font In Crystal Report For Dos Based Printer Reports.Driver Is Installed. Courier Font is Visible In Notepad Font Selection. But In Crystal Report. Courier Font Is Not Visible.How Can I Resolve this Problem.Thanks In Advance.

Post Author: colin mackenzie
CA Forum: Publishing
What version of Crystal Reports are you using?
Do you have any printer drivers installed on the pc that your developing the crystal report?
What version of OS is the pc you have your Crystal Reports Developer installed on?

Font Selection laggy in InDesign CC

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for