People may suggest you delete the Adobe font cache files to attempt to fix certain problems - and indeed, under some uncommon circumstances, an Adobe font cache file may get messed up. These font cache files are AdobeFnt*.lst files (where "*" may be nothing, or may be a two-digit number).
However, there are two files with simjilar names, but ending in ".db", which are not caches, are not subject to any kind of corruption that we know of, and should not be deleted. AdobeFnt.db and and FntNames.db are both static database files used by InDesign. Deleting them, especially FntNames.db, can cause serious problems.
So what are these database files?
Continue reading AdobeFnt.db and FntNames.db files - don't delete them!.
