CS5 Design Premium InDesign font problem

[Michael_Costabile]

I am running InDesign CS5 Design Premium on MAC OSX 10.12.6.  I have installed the available update using the Terminal option.

When I select the text tool - the Myanmar font is shown by default.  When I click the dropdown to get the list of available fonts, I get a list of grey lines with no entries in them. If I keep clicking the dropdown icon, the font changes to the next one.  If I type Calibri in the font list box, it selects Calibri.

It therefore appears that the fonts are there to select, but they don't populate in the dropdown list.

I have tried deleting the fontlist file and allowed it to recreate - it gives me the following information:

%!Adobe-FontList 1.13

%Locale:0x409

%BeginFont

Handler:DirectoryHandler

FontType:Invalid

OutlineFileName:\.DS_Store

FileLength:6148

FileModTime:1501754247

%EndFont

Note, when using Photoshop, I get a list of fonts, so this appears to be specific to the InDesign application.

Attached is a screenshot of the dropdown issue.  Some help would be appreciated.

[Steve Werner]

InDesign CS5 is very old, is no longer supported, and doesn't work in macOS 10.2.6.

And I have never heard of installing updates using Terminal.

You're on your own!

[Michael_Costabile]

Thanks for your answer Steve.  Sadly I don't have the resources to buy a newer version and would hope to still be able to use such an expensive product.

I found a document instructing how to install using a Terminal window to get around the MacOSX Gatekeeper restrictions - it works well.

[Doug A Roberts]

could you share those instructions? i haven't come across that before.

even with it working otherwise normally though, UI bugs like this seem to crop up a lot with people running newer mac OS versions with adobe CS apps. it might be something you'll have to live with.

[Michael_Costabile]

You open the installer using Show package contents (right click or Ctl click), navigate to Mac folder and there is a file in there.  Drag it into an open Terminal window, then press return in the Terminal window.  The installer then launches and MAC OSX asks you for your password

[Luke_Jennings]

If you have an older Mac, you have the option of restoring the original OS. I had a similar issue in the past and I partitioned my hard drive with a copy of the older OS, so I had the option to boot in the older or newer OS, as needed. If you choose to do this, be sure to back up everything first.