Designer Font Management

[Clayton King]

This has long been a frustration for me, but I'm finally taking the time to put it out here and ask for advice. 

My type library is huge (it needs to be cleaned out if I'm being honest). But I do have several typeface families that include multiple fonts. On my Windows 11 laptop, I use High-Logic's Maintype to manage fonts. In the example shown, this little file uses Noto Serif which is missing. So my questions are: 

1. Is there an actual type/font manager (like in Publisher) for Designer wherein you can call up the dialogue?

2. Is there a way for Designer to tell you what "flavor" of the font you're looking for? In this case, there are 68 variants of Noto Serif (i.e., light, light condensed, bold, etc.). I'd prefer not to install all 68 fonts.

 

[walt.farrell]

36 minutes ago, Clayton King said:

1. Is there an actual type/font manager (like in Publisher) for Designer wherein you can call up the dialogue?

No. But you can, of course, open that document in Publisher to work with it, when you're dealing with font issues. Just don't convert the Artboards to Spreads.

Even then, the Font Manager in Publisher just lets you see more info about the missing fonts; it doesn't really let you manage them. Nor does it allow you to change the fonts that are actually being used in the document. For that, you need to use Find and Replace (another Publisher-only function).

39 minutes ago, Clayton King said:

2. Is there a way for Designer to tell you what "flavor" of the font you're looking for?

When you Open the document, you should get a popup ("toast") message that tells you the font. If that's not specific enough, you'll need to use Publisher, instead.

It would be nice to see this improved, and I'm sure there are multiple feature requests for it.