#Open beancounter not at ah install#

In other words, Adobe basically just gives you the fewest fonts they possibly could to launch the application.īecome a Premium Member of InDesignSecrets today to get InDesign Magazine plus other exclusive benefits!

Letter Gothic Regular, Slanted, Bold, and Bold Slanted.

Myriad Pro Regular, Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic.

#Open beancounter not at ah install#

Here’s the problem: If you install InDesign CS6 (or you’ve been using any earlier version of InDesign), you get a wide array of fonts, such as Chaparral, Caslon, Minion Pro, and a whole bunch of language-specific fonts (for Arabic, Korean, and so on). But if you do a clean install of InDesign CC, on a machine that never had Adobe software on it before, you’ll get:

The common denominator was that the client companies were new to Adobe products, or the students were in on-site training labs, where hard drive images were installed fresh for every class. We realized the impact of this decision just recently, when Anne-Marie found that at some of her training engagements, students were flummoxed about missing font alerts in sample files that she had used trouble-free for years. At a time when Adobe has repeatedly announced its intentions to provide more robust typographic features and support customers better, we have to say that in our opinion, this move is a big mistake.

At some point in the near past, sometime after InDesign CC was released, Adobe quietly stopped installing almost all the fonts that used to come with the program. We wish this were one of our infamous April Fool’s Day jokes, but it’s not.