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In this tutorial,
we'll learn how to create a new size
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font resource sets within the Invent
plugin for Adobe InDesign.
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So to begin,
we're going to create a new resource set.
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So if you're in InDesign on the Invent
plugin and go to the Resources
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tab, they're going to click on
add resource sets,
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which will load up the separate window.
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And in this case,
we want to go for a font set.
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So adding fonts will provide the user
with more font options
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to choose from
within their actual products.
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Additionally, these can also be assigned
to dropdown variables
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which can be used to dynamically change
things like
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the font of text properties.
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So the first thing we need to do
is to enter the name of the font set
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and then from here there's two
different routes we can take.
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One of them is to select funds that are
already installed on our operating system.
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So you see here I've got a button
which is get OS fonts
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that will show me
all of the installed fonts
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and I can select and utilize.
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You do have to confirm
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that you have a valid license
for the font file that you are using.
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This is not the responsibility of Infigo.
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This is the responsibility
of the template designer to make sure
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that you have the valid license
for the particular font
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you are choosing
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once you've selected.
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It is now available in the list of fonts.
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Another option we have is to upload fonts,
so you'll see that
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supported file types are ttf and otf.
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So if I go for upload fonts
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that will give me a browser
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or a file browser window.
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I have a few files I can choose from here
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and I'm just going to click open again.
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It's asking us to confirm the licenses
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and then they'll be added to that list.
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From here we need to create a variable.
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There's two options
we can utilize for this.
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We can get it to automatically create
a dropdown variable that we can utilize.
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Alternative way we could just hit, save
and manually create the variable,
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which is what we'll do in this case.
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So I'll hit, save,
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navigate to my variables tab
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and then I'm going
to click on add variable
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that will give me
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a few options to choose from,
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but I'm going to choose a drop down
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variable.
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So dropdown variables have been covered
in previous tutorials.
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It's just a case of providing some
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details on the
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name of the variable
and some UI information
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and then choosing
what that variable is going
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to be linked to.
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So in this case,
I'll choose an existing resource
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and I'll choose our font set
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with a default font value
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and then click Save.
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So now we have both the resource
and the variables created.
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Next
we'll see how to link our text
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frames, font selection to our variables.
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So in my actual document itself,
if I click
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a text frame,
any one of these will do this.
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In my example.
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And if I go across to the properties
menu on the Invent plugin, you'll see that
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it's recognized that as a text frame
and I can enable that to make it dynamic
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within here.
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I'm going to stick to the text tab,
which gives me options to control.
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The text contained within that frame.
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and close to the bottom
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you'll see that we have a font options
section which by default
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is being inherited.
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I can say instead
that I want to link this to a variable
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and then I can choose
the relevant variable
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which is going subsequently to a font set.
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So from here
I'm going to export this template
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as a MEX file
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and then import that
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into our MegaEdit document.
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What we can see here is that we have
a new variable available on our form
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with those uploaded fonts.
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Specify it and it's actually showing us
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what those fonts
are as part of the selection process
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now because we've got this variable linked
to this field here on actual templates.
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As soon as I change this selection,
the utilize font for that
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field will be changed.
