preston-bernstein / adobe-fonts-liberator

Copy Adobe OTF fonts to a folder on your Desktop and rename them properly

Adobe Fonts Liberator

Copy Adobe Fonts (OTF) to a folder on your Desktop

https://github.com/preston-bernstein/adobe-fonts-liberator

Problem

Your licensed and activated Adobe Fonts are not accessible for general use in Windows:

1. they are stored (hidden) under %APPDATA%\Adobe\CoreSync\plugins\livetype\r
2. the file names are some sort of ID, which is good for Adobe managing the files, yet not human-readable

Why this fork exists

Many users of the original repository reported that the otfinfo.exe file was not working properly with the script. This edit allows to use the script without needing the otfinfo.exe file.

Solution

This script copies all activated font files to a new directory Adobe Fonts on your Desktop and renames all of them to their PostScript name. For example, the file 17969 becomes MinionPro-BoldCnItCapt.otf (which includes all cues for font variation, weight, etc.).

After that, you can install the fonts to the Windows font store like all other fonts by right-clicking on the file(s) and selecting Install or Install for all users. The fonts are then available to all your Windows applications.

Configuration

The source and destination directory can be configured at the top of the script, even though this shouldn't really be needed as the path to the Desktop folder is auto-determined from the user's environment and the Adobe CC fonts directory is located under a standard path in the user's %APPDATA%.

Acknowledgements

This script is a fork of pawalan/adobe-fonts-liberator, which is essentially a PowerShell port of kalaschnik/adobe-fonts-revealer Owing heavily to the fork originally written by https://github.com/BylliGoat