At this point, there are a number of such third party font managers available for you to investigate and potentially license. The decision was made to let third parties, with more direct interests in serving this particular specialty market, to write and market font management software for both Windows and MacOS with Adobe providing interfaces for such font managers to seamlessly work with the Creative Suite and now the Creative Cloud applications. For various business reasons, Adobe discontinued development and support of ATM, not least of which was the vary specific needs of different customer groups in terms of how they wanted to manage fonts, in terms of how to group, where to store, access privileges, etc. What you are actually suggesting is a built-in font manager! At one time, Adobe did develop and market a font manager, Adobe Type Manager, aka ATM (not to be confused with the automated teller machines at the bank). What is displayed as the list of available fonts is totally dynamic based on the fonts available at any moment in the system fonts directories, special font directories solely for use with the particular application(s), and in the case of InDesign and Illustrator, in the open document's “package font directory.” Such a feature is anything but “a small modification in the font lists (stored in preferences.” In fact, there are no lists of fonts stored in the Adobe applications' preferences. I don't quite know what you mean by “Adobe's next upgrade” but I assume that you are referring to the next versions of any and all Adobe software that provides the ability to choose fonts to be used for formatting text. (We cannot coordinate with Fontbook because Apple has chosen not to coordinate with applications that support font managers – to anticipate you next question! ) That is what other professional users of Adobe applications under MacOS do to selectively show or hide fonts, whether bundled with the operating system, Microsoft Office, any other application which installs fonts, or even fonts that the user installs themselves. If you have such a “font manager” installed, it should do the trick for you.Īny font that is installed on your system, even if hidden with Fontbook on MacOS shows up in Adobe Applications unless you use a font manager per what I originally described. There are third party “font managers” that run under MacOS that coordinate with the Adobe creative applications to allow selective activation or deactivation of fonts. Re-read my original response and you will see: Sorry, but I answered the question as to how eliminate display of those fonts. ![]() Hopefully this “Dead Zone” answer assists you in resolving your needs. The lists of available fonts are regenerated upon executing the applications the next time. You can fix such a problem by exiting all Adobe applications and then searching for and deleting all files with the name AdobeFnt#.lst where # is a 0 to 2 digit number. (4) Assuming you did actually delete the font files that you don't want available and displayed in the applications' list of fonts, there may be a lack of synchronization between the Adobe font name caching mechanism and the reality of what you have installed. If you don't actually deletethe underlying font files, the Adobe applications still “see” the fonts. (3) MacOS Font Book is not a font manager that would allow selective activation or deactivation of a font in terms of what the Adobe applications see. If you have such a “font manager” installed, it should do the trick for you. (2) There are third party “font managers” that run under MacOS that coordinate with the Adobe creative applications to allow selective activation or deactivation of fonts. In some of the applications, fonts are listed in groups based upon the fonts' internal declaration of language support, but there is no function for disabling fonts either individually or by attribute. ![]() (1) No Adobe application has any internal controls that allow the user to selectively hide fonts from the applications' lists of available fonts. ![]() Notwithstanding your sarcasm about the Adobe Type Forum as being a “Dead Zone where nothing is answered,” a few thoughts:
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