Fetching fonts from TypeKit using JavaScript

[revathiv80720177]

Hi,

Is it possible to fetch font from TypeKit using JavaScript in indesign using scripts. Please do guide me.

Regards,

Revathi

[Loic.Aigon]

Doesn't look so.

[Laubender]

Hi Loic,

are you sure about that?
At least we should be able to fetch used fonts from TypeKit with ExtendScript.

I did not test this, but we could check this:

var usedFonts = app.documents[0].fonts.everyItem().getElements();
for(var n=0;n<usedFonts.length;n++)
{
    $.writeln( usedFonts.location );
}

And how about:

var usedFonts = app.fonts.everyItem().getElements();
for(var n=0;n<usedFonts.length;n++)
{
    $.writeln( usedFonts.location );
}

Wouldn't that give some hints?

Regards,
Uwe

[Loic.Aigon]

good you could find something useful. I couldn't find anything in the dom

[Laubender]

Hi Loic,

it remains to be seen, if font.location is useful.
Revathi schould test my little snippets and see if a special location for a known Typekit font can be found.

I think, the location could be in a temp folder or at least in a folder that is very unusual to host a font. That will be no "hard" evidence, but maybe good enough.

Regards,
Uwe

[Laubender]

Or perhaps font.location will show an empty string if the TypeKit fonts are shielded good enough from user access.

Regards,
Uwe

[Loic.Aigon]

Hi Uwe,

I was under the impression our friend was looking for a way to retrieve a font from Typekit through a script, something like:

app.fetchFromTypekit ( "myFontName" );

That's what I was looking at first.

[Laubender]

Hm, yes…

But since Revathi did not comment on any of our replies we cannot be sure about that.

Regards,
Uwe

[revathiv80720177]

Hi,

Sorry for my delay in reply. Thank you for your responses.

I tried this one,

app.fetchFromTypekit ( "myFontName" );

but this is showing an error, app.fetchFromTypekit is not a function.

Is it possible to download fonts from typekit using script?

Thanks,

Revathi

[revathiv80720177]

Hi Laubender,

I tried that one, but there is no changes.

Is there any another possible way to download fonts from typekit?

Thanks,

Revathi

[Loic.Aigon]

you can give Typekit api a try :

The Typekit API

[revathiv80720177]

Hi,

Thank you for your response. I will give a try and reply you back.

Revathi

[steveross · Accepted solution]

Hi Revathi,

Thanks for your interest in both InDesign ExtendScript and Typekit. After digging into this a bit here, I can report that this kind of action is not supported.

Thanks again,

Steve

[revathiv80720177]

Hi Steve,

Thank you for your reponse.

Regards,

Revathi