Adobe InDesign & Illustrator upgrades will add direct access to 9,000-plus fonts

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• Reply 1 of 11

  cashxx Posts: 114member

  August 9, 2018 2:08PM

  "Only once a font is selected will people have to activate and license it if they haven't already"
  
  So is it an extra charge for each font or are they included with the subscription of the Adobe stuff?  Little unclear to me.

  edited August 2018
• Reply 2 of 11

  Mike Wuerthele Posts: 6,861administrator

  August 9, 2018 2:13PM

  cashxx said:

  "Only once a font is selected will people have to activate and license it if they haven't already"
  
  So is it an extra charge for each font or are they included with the subscription of the Adobe stuff?  Little unclear to me.

  If a font is free, you don't have to license it. If it is not, then you do.
  
  Direct access does not equal free.

  edited August 2018
• Reply 3 of 11

  chabig Posts: 641member

  August 9, 2018 2:44PM

  So essentially...a font store.

  
• Reply 4 of 11

  netling Posts: 74member

  August 9, 2018 2:55PM

  Adobe is once more screwing people by not actually upgrading their app and providing a crumb to designers, saying "look a bunch of fonts!" Which there are many font foundries and other font outlets, there are also many FREE quality fonts or open source fonts some are at fonts.google.com
  
  I'm not a big google supporter but if I can put Google against Adobe for better competition... Go to Google for FREE fonts!!!

  
• Reply 5 of 11

  JWSC Posts: 1,203member

  August 9, 2018 3:07PM

  I used to love Illustrator, Photoshop and used InDesign some too.  I was a big Adobe fan back in the day.  I liked to collect fonts too, until Apple and Microsoft developed TrueType and it got all muddled again.  Of course, that happened because Adobe was charging a mint for fonts.
  
  Adobe’s subscription model killed my love of their products as I used them mostly for personal use.  Companies can justify subscriptions fees because they use those products on a daily basis for their business needs.  It’s harder for an individual to justify the expense when these programs are used sporadically rather than every day.  We have less expensive options out there that do what we need 95% of the time.

  
• Reply 6 of 11

  bigbillygoatgruff Posts: 353member

  August 9, 2018 3:28PM

  JWSC said:

  I used to love Illustrator, Photoshop and used InDesign some too.  I was a big Adobe fan back in the day.  I liked to collect fonts too, until Apple and Microsoft developed TrueType and it got all muddled again.  Of course, that happened because Adobe was charging a mint for fonts.
  
  Adobe’s subscription model killed my love of their products as I used them mostly for personal use.  Companies can justify subscriptions fees because they use those products on a daily basis for their business needs.  It’s harder for an individual to justify the expense when these programs are used sporadically rather than every day.  We have less expensive options out there that do what we need 95% of the time.

  I used to do a lot of freelance graphic design work--back in the days before the subscription model.  I preferred InDesign (and QuarkXPress) to word processors all along because I hate it when SW like Word tries to think for me.  No longer being a "power user," there is no way I can justify buying a subscription at those rates.  A one-time purchase that I can use for the life of my computer, sure.  I don't know if this model has worked out the way Adobe wanted it to, but it has broken a lot of people from an addiction to Adobe products.
• Reply 7 of 11

  Eric_WVGG Posts: 968member

  August 9, 2018 3:39PM

  wow they finally ran out of features to copy from Corel Draw, all they need now is some shite clip art :P
• Reply 8 of 11

  mark fearing Posts: 420member

  August 9, 2018 4:17PM

  I'd be so much happier is they spent time simply making the apps work better. I do subscribe to all the Adobe apps. I have to for work. But it's been years since an upgrade came out and when you open the new version it runs snappier. I guess they could say "We've done all we can on that front". But in every software company I've worked at there is always ways to make things run faster and better. It just takes the dedication of resources. Adobe mainly wants to add things that cost their customers more money. They don't want to improve what they already have. 
• Reply 9 of 11

  Eric_WVGG Posts: 968member

  August 9, 2018 4:41PM

  The last I heard, the CC UI was built in Adobe Air. That's why text inputs never look quite right, keyboard shortcuts work unpredictably, etc. 
  

  edited August 2018
• Reply 10 of 11

  mac_dog Posts: 1,069member

  August 9, 2018 4:44PM

  mark fearing said:

  I'd be so much happier is they spent time simply making the apps work better. I do subscribe to all the Adobe apps. I have to for work. But it's been years since an upgrade came out and when you open the new version it runs snappier. I guess they could say "We've done all we can on that front". But in every software company I've worked at there is always ways to make things run faster and better. It just takes the dedication of resources. Adobe mainly wants to add things that cost their customers more money. They don't want to improve what they already have. 

  Welcome to the wonderful world of adobe. Sparse, bloated updates just so they can meet their end of the bargain. Stop using their products. It’s that simple. Very few professionals out there are master class experts that use all the features photoshop or illustrator has to offer and they can do everything with other products.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Reply 11 of 11

  MacPro Posts: 19,727member

  August 10, 2018 12:12PM

  chabig said:

  So essentially...a font store.

  Adobe's MBAs must sit around all day trying to think up more schemes.