Installing fonts

When you install InDesign or the Adobe Creative Suite, fonts are automatically installed in the system fonts folder—Windows\Fonts in Windows or Library/Fonts in Mac OS. For information on installing and activating fonts to be used in all applications, see your system documentation or your font manager documentation.

In addition to the fonts installed on your system, you can also use the fonts installed in these folders:

Windows: Program Files/Common Files/Adobe/Fonts
Mac OS: Library/Application Support/Adobe/Fonts

If you install a Type 1, TrueType, OpenType, or CID font into the local Fonts folder, the font appears in Adobe applications only.

You can make fonts available in InDesign by copying the font files into the Fonts folder inside the Adobe® InDesign® CS4 folder on your hard drive. However, fonts in this Fonts folder are available only to InDesign.

If two or more fonts are active in InDesign and use the same family name but have different Adobe PostScript names, the fonts are available in InDesign. Duplicate fonts are listed in the menus with their font technologies abbreviated in parentheses. For example, a Helvetica TrueType font appears as “Helvetica (TT),” a Helvetica PostScript Type 1 font appears as “Helvetica (T1),” and a Helvetica OpenType font appears as “Helvetica (OTF).” If two fonts have the same PostScript name and one includes .dfont in its name, the other font is used.