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phyllisj9 User 749 posts since
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Dec 1, 2010 10:48 AM

OT: Packaging Photoshop Fonts

Okay, this is a little off-topic, but I'm updating a poster that someone created here in the past. They created it in Photoshop, and it has about 8 billion layers. I'll recreate it in InDesign when I have the time, but one thing I would like to do (for now) is to gather up all its fonts and keep them with the file (it took me a while to locate and install one of the fonts I needed to open this Photoshop file correctly). Is there anything similar to Package in Photoshop? I tried placing the Photoshop file in InDesign and then packaging it, but it ignores the Photoshop file's fonts. How do I find all the fonts? Is there a Photoshop option for that? I have the file working okay for now -- I just want to avoid problems in the future if I get a new computer or something.

 

I have no idea why this file was created in Photoshop as InDesign would have been a much better choice. But whatever. It's not the first messed up file I've had to work with.

 

Thanks, Phyllis

  • Bob Levine Community Professional 17,575 posts since
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    1. Dec 1, 2010 11:34 AM (in response to phyllisj9)
    Re: OT: Packaging Photoshop Fonts

    Save it as a PDF and check the font list in Acrobat.

     

    Bob

  • macinbytes User 546 posts since
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    2. Dec 1, 2010 12:50 PM (in response to phyllisj9)
    Re: OT: Packaging Photoshop Fonts

    FontExplorer X by Linotype and probably the rest of the font management world have detect font in document capabilities.

     

    Like Bob said, save as PDF, then from FontExplorer X (other font managers have collection utilities, I know Suitcase does it via a plugin) you can choose "Detect Fonts in Document" and then make a Set which makes collection easy.

     

    I know that you cannot use ArtFiles to collect fonts in Photoshop PDFs (at least ones I've tried). FlightCheck Professional may be able to package from Photoshop PDF, but I can't personally testify to that. Collecting Photoshop PDF fonts in ArtFiles crashes the application 100% of the time for me, <1% of the time for me from Illustrator PDFs. Standard your milage may vary applies.

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