When dealing with duplicate fonts, please provide us with three options to choose from: Merge, Skip and Overwrite. These options would allow users to manage the duplicates effectively without causing conflicts or issues within the system.
Key points:
Skip: This option allows you to ignore the duplicate fonts and keep the existing ones without any changes.
Overwrite: Choosing this option will replace the current fonts with the duplicate ones, essentially updating them.
Merge: Merging duplicate fonts combines the unique characters from each font, providing a comprehensive collection while avoiding redundancy (inc. the existing Duplicates).
I often have to deal with same fonts available as TTF and OTF (from Google or because they are provided in both formats locally).
I’d like to have a setting that if a font is the same but available as OTF or TTF, to choose which to activate and which not. This would lead to more consistency in InDesign. I often notice that a different font is chosen because the original one isn’t available.
At least, it feels so …
Hello @torste3d, thank you for post and welcome to the forum
You can already pick which specific font file to activate if you open that font’s Family page
Thank you again,
Yuriy
FontBase Dev Team
Hi Yuriy, thanks for your reply. That i can choose between the fonts manually is well known and i mostly handle it that way. Sometimes, when I open a file after a few weeks, different fonts in the set become activated and InDesign shows them as missing.
Not an urgent problem, but for convenience for sure
I can see where you coming from. I guess you are talking about automated filtering and grouping, so all the same-named fonts get grouped, and you can selectively choose multiple or individual fonts to disable or switch off the particular formats/extensions, and vice versa.
