P: Duplicate Font Styles Appearing

None of the fonts listed are installed? yes, a list of the fonts might be useful for all affected users, to see if there is a common denominator for the problem.

Howdy Jason,

Hmmm.... Are you using any third party fonts (at all)? I've a sneaking suspicion that a naughty font might be the cause of your woes. Also, what're you running for font management? Something clearly isn't right with your machines; what you're describing sounds like something is really messing with your cache...! 8-(

I'd like to help you get to the bottom of this.
Thanks,
David

Hi David. Thanks so much for your help in this—very much appreciated.

For me, it looks like following the instructions you provided did fix the problem, but only temporarily. After scrubbing both caches clean, then restarting, the problem starts up again from scratch. I even un/reinstalled PS-CS6 after the scrub. If it's truly an issue of a font cache corruption, it looks as though the corruption just decides to happen again. What's interesting, though, is that this happens not only on my iMac, but now on my brand new Air, which I switched to in order to use a completely different install of PS-CS6—I still get the beach ball and the ever-increasing font styles list. It's not as debilitating on the Air, for some reason, but on the iMac it ultimately brings things to a slow death.

Any thoughts on how to circumvent this would be fantastic. And again, thanks so much for your help!

Jason

Howdy Christina, Jason, and Elliot,

It sounds like your font cache has become corrupted. I would suggest checking out this document: http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/t..., especially step #6, item #4.

If your problem persists after that, please let me know, but I REALLY expect this to fix it.

Thanks,
David

Do you use Universal type client too ? i have the same problem ...

I'm having the very same issue, but it becomes far more critical. After about a half hour of working in Photoshop CS6, the Font Style drop-down in the Character panel has filled with duplicate styles. It's around that time I start having serious problems performing simple move/text/select functions, and Photoshop becomes frustratingly unusable. Quitting/Restarting Photoshop seems to help for a few minutes, but the duplicate styles just add right back up again. I've reinstalled from scratch twice, but the same issue continues.

—Jason P

iMac, PS CS6, OS 10.7.4

Here's a screen shot (in this example, the typeface I'm using is Helvetica Neue (TT)).