Adobe Typekit Fonts in uStore

[Rob Gunston]

Hi,

Is there (or can there be) a way of getting uProduce/inDesign server to recognise fonts from the Adobe Typekit service?

I can create a uStore job on the Desktop using Typekit fonts, and sync the fonts on the uProduce server, but when I run the job in uProduce it does not pick up these fonts.

Is there a fix for this?

Cheers

Rob

[Igor]

There are several discussions on this subject and new sync feature cache them on the desktop , but it not necessary you can copy them to another dectop or server , hence XMPie plug-in may not sync them or copy them as well.  But since it should be used with Adobe server that use CC the question is if inDesign Server CC supports it or not  and if it can sync those fonts , since in general XMPie should not even copy them or package them .

I asked one of our experts to place some comment on the subject since I think in general font synchronization is an important subject .

You can read some info here :

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1290901

http://help.typekit.com/customer/portal/articles/1166052-packaging-files-that-use-synced-fonts

http://mac.appstorm.net/reviews/graphics/first-look-at-creative-cloud-file-and-typekit-font-sync/   

... sending you the real OTF fonts that you’re syncing from Typekit, but hiding them on your computer and making them accessible to your apps through the Creative Cloud app. It’s perfectly understandable why they’d obscure it to a degree since you’re “renting” the fonts, and since it works seamlessly in apps, there’s nothing to really complain about. It’s just not quite as obstructed as you might have imagined it’d be — and it’s actually bringing you the real fonts, not “hacking” web fonts to appear in your web apps and streaming them from the cloud live when you’re using them, as I thought it might be when I at first only found the XML files in the Creative Cloud sync folder.

[Rob Gunston]

Hi Igor, thanks for this insight.

I have managed a work around where I can manually extract then upload the OTF font files into uProduce in the short term, with the hope that Adobe introduce some more robust support for TypeKit within InDesign Server Edition soon.

NB you may or may not be aware that InDesign (desktop edition) crashes if you try and create a CPKG for a job that includes TypeKit fonts - perhaps you may want to look at patching this so the CPKG completes successfully, but excludes the 'hosted' fonts?

Cheers

Rob

[Igor]

Thanks Rob,

I passed to R&D all the info so hopefully we will get some light on this one.

Igor.