: How to collect fonts in illustrator CS5 I find manually collecting fonts to be a tedious, detail oriented job, is there a plug in or script or something that has thumbs up to do this tedious

@Sherry646

Markzware FlightCheck will do that for Illustrator, Photoshop and many other file formats. Here is a video of how it works:

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@Rambettina927

Text / Find font / Save List ---> it saves a TXT list with all the fonts used in the document.

Then you search them and copy them into a new folder "youMayNameIt—Fonts" inside your project folder.

This is the best way I found using CS5.

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@Angela777

It's worth noting that this feature has been added to CS6. Maybe this is the excuse you need to convince your boss, or yourself, to upgrade. I don't work for Adobe, I'm just another geek.

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@Radia289

I copied and pasted all of my live fonts from Illustrator CS5 into a new document in InDesign CS4, selected "Package" and lo and behold it collected the fonts. The fonts weren't "live" but InDesign collected them anyway. Trial and error, in this case it worked like a charm!

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@Radia289

Certain font managers like Extensis Suitcase Fusion come with plugins for Illustrator and other design programs that allow you to collect fonts as well as dynamically activate fonts when you load a document that contains fonts you have but aren't permanently active.

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@Hamm6457569

Illustrator doesn't have an analog to InDesign's Package feature, so collecting (packaging) the fonts used in a document has to be done by scripting. There is a packaging script written for AI CS2 that will work at least as far as CS4 (single art board), which might do the trick. Otherwise, your best bet would be to ask on the Adobe Illustrator Scripting forum if anyone has a script that will do what you want. Scripters being incredibly helpful folks, even if there's no existing script the chances are that someone, or more than one, will write one for you and post it.

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