Social media icon font

[Pat Bensky]

Should be easy ... :) I've been looking for an icon font that contains things like twitter, Facebook etc. logos. I found one, Fontawesome, which has lots of useful icons, but I can't get it to work! I've installed it and it shows up on the font list in Indy, but all I get is those little boxes. Can anybody recommend a suitable font? I don't mind paying for it!

I tried looking on Typekit but there don't appear to be any symbol fonts at all on there...

I'm using CC2014, Mac 

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[Michael Brady]

On Sep 24, 2014, at 8:36 AM, Pat Bensky <pbe...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Should be easy ... :) I've been looking for an icon font that contains things like twitter, Facebook etc. logos. I found one, Fontawesome, which has lots of useful icons, but I can't get it to work! I've installed it and it shows up on the font list in Indy, but all I get is those little boxes. Can anybody recommend a suitable font? I don't mind paying for it!
>

Try Font Squirrel, Specky Boy, or Smashing Magazine

http://www.fontsquirrel.com/
http://speckyboy.com/index.php?s=free+fonts&submit=Search
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/tag/typography/







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Michael Brady

[William Adams]

On Sep 24, 2014, at 8:43 AM, Michael Brady wrote:

> Try Font Squirrel, Specky Boy, or Smashing Magazine

Actually, thinking a bit more, ISTR having made such a font for a customer a while back.

Suggestions on marketing it if I can dig it out of my archives?

William

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[Pat Bensky]

Thanks Michael - Modern Pictograms does the job:

http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/list/tag/icons?tag=225&parent_tag=Dingbat

William - I will certainly keep your offer in mind, as we do occasionally have a need for custom fonts.

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[Michel Raj]

You can also look at Indyfont.

A great script that allows you to build opentype fonts from within InDesign…

http://www.indiscripts.com/post/2012/06/indyfont-build-opentype-fonts-from-within-indesign_

Michel

[Pat Bensky]

Wow that looks very interesting - I will certainly check it out!

While we are on the subject of scripts ...

I need one that will export all the text from all the text boxes in a document, including:

- picture pathnames

- table content

I've tried various scripts (including the one that comes free with InDesign) and have yet to find one that does the job properly. Anybody?

[Evans, Rebecca]

Indyfont is particularly nice in that it is so easy to create a font, you can quickly create a new font for each project. In your case, this would let you change the glyph size and vertical orientation to the baseline for each icon you want to use so that they didn’t have to be sized or shifted up/down with local formatting or a character styles.

Rebecca

[Stephen Marsh]

Patsky, for linked image paths, the following JavaScript is great (I have two AppleScripts, however I think this JS does a better job, not to mention being cross platform). I hope that this code does not become corrupted (watch out for quote marks and other things). Copy and paste the text into a plain text editor and save with a .js or .jsx extension (not .txt):

// LinkExport-Pro_1a.jsx 

//DESCRIPTION: Exports some information about placed images in the active Document into a textfile in the same folder as the document.  

// The values are tab-separated, so that the content of the file can be copied to Excel via Clipboard. 

// The exported textfile has the ending ".txt". 

// Script by Martin Fischer (www.hilfdirselbst.ch)

//http://www.hilfdirselbst.ch/foren/gforum.cgi?do=post_view_flat;post=235551;page=1;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;mh=15;

// 

var myDoc = app.documents[0]; 

if (myDoc.saved == false) 

{ 

alert("Error.\rYou must first save your document."); 

exit(); 

} 

var myDocName = myDoc.name.split(".indd")[0]; 

var myTXT_File = myDocName + '.txt'; 

var myPath = myDoc.filePath + "/"; 

var myCreator = "R*ch";  

var myType = "TEXT";  

var theFiles = myDoc.links; 

var myData = "link\tpath\tpage\twidth\theight\t% vertical\t% horizontal\teff. PPI\r";  

 

var f = new File( myPath + myTXT_File );  

f.open( 'w', myType, myCreator );  

f.writeln( myData );  

 

for (myCounter = 0; myCounter<theFiles.length;myCounter ++ ) {  

var myBounds = theFiles[myCounter].parent.geometricBounds;  

var myWidth = Math.round(myBounds[3]-myBounds[1]);  

var myHeight = Math.round(myBounds[2]-myBounds[0]);  

var myScaleVert = Math.round(theFiles[myCounter].parent.absoluteVerticalScale); 

var myScaleHori = Math.round(theFiles[myCounter].parent.absoluteHorizontalScale); 

var myImagePath = theFiles[myCounter].filePath; 

// WARNING if vertical scale is different to horizontal scale 

if (myScaleVert != myScaleHori) 

{ 

var myWarning = "% vertical is not equal % horizontal"; 

} 

else  

{ 

var myWarning = ""; 

} 

try  

{  

myPPI = (theFiles[myCounter].parent.effectivePpi); 

}  

catch (e)  

{  

myPPI = 0; 

}  

var myClass = theFiles[myCounter].parent.parent.parent.constructor.name; 

// image placed on page 

if (myClass == "Page")  

{  

myPage = theFiles[myCounter].parent.parent.parent.name; 

}  

// image embedded 

else if (myClass == "Character") 

{ 

try  

{  

myPage = theFiles[myCounter].parent.parent.parent.parentTextFrames[0].parent.name; 

} 

catch(e) 

{ 

myPage = "versteckt im Überlauf"; 

} 

}  

else { 

try  

{  

// image placed outside the pages 

myPage = "Spread of " + theFiles[myCounter].parent.parent.parent.pages[0].name; 

}  

catch(e)  

{  

// don't know the page where the image is placed 

alert ("Class: " + myClass + "\r" + theFiles[myCounter].name); 

}  

}  

myData = theFiles[myCounter].name + "\t" + myImagePath + "\t" + myPage + "\t" + myWidth + "\t" + myHeight + "\t" + myScaleVert + "\t" + myScaleHori + "\t" + myPPI + "\r"; 

f.writeln(myData);  

}  

f.close(); 

[Pat Bensky]

Excellent, thanks Stephen - that script does indeed export the picture pathnames.

Now I just need to combine it with one that exports all the text ... I'll post it here when it's done. (Don't hold your breath - it's not a high priority job right now!)

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[Stephen Marsh]

There is a default script that ships with InDesign:

http://indesignsecrets.com/exporting-all-stories-text-rtf.php

http://blogs.adobe.com/indesignchannel/2007/05/export_all_stories_script.html

http://prepressstuff.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/scripts-sorted-by-categories-for-indesign/

Stephen Marsh

[Bret Perry]

Thx for wordpress link, didn’t know about that one!

For exporting text, TextExporter is not free, but  full-featured and free trial… works in CC -- not sure about CC 2014 

https://www.rorohiko.com/wordpress/manuals/textexporter-manual/

https://www.rorohiko.com/wordpress/indesign-downloads/text-exporter/

 

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[Evans, Rebecca]

Here is a list of free icon fonts

http://www.webpop.com/blog/2013/05/08/top-10-free-icon-fonts

You can also google “social media icon font” if you don’t like any of the fonts in the free list.

Rebecca

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[Bret Perry]

Cool! - thanks Rebecca!

Michel, 

Fontawesome  works fine in InDesign, but like most modern “picture” fonts it does not use "normal “ characters, but higher unicode characters.

For desktop work (InDesign) you should load/install the “FontAwesome.otf” version (the .ttf version ought to work, but won’t load on desktop for me)

In InDesign, type anything elect it and change the font to Fontawesome, THEN, in the Glyphs panel (shift-option-F11) double-click on the icon you want.

Facebook is GID132 and Unicode F082 Twitter is GID 131 unicode F081

The other formats, .woff .woff2, .eot and .svg are all “web” fonts and  you’d need a local web server or a real one to use those and they would only work/show on a web page or a preview of a webpage (not in a desktop application unless you have special plugins).

 

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