Periodically somebody asks how InDesign prioritizes fonts whose names conflict, or what consistutes a conflict, and nobody knows. Recently David Blatner (InDesignSecrets.com, co-author of Real World InDesign, Real World QuarkXPress, etc.) asked the same question, and sparked me to pull together the answers.
There are three kinds of name conflicts in InDesign that cause fonts to potentially not show up in the font menu.
1) Duplicate PostScript FontName
2) Duplicate menu name (as shown in InDesign)
3) Multiple "regular"-like styles in a single family
The third case is a bit different, so we'll take it separately.
Continue reading InDesign Font Conflicts.
