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RE: "Unable to create font" After Effects CS 5 won't launch

  • May 1, 2010
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My spanking new After Effects CS5 won't launch due to "Unable to create font" error.

I'm running OS X 10.6.3 on a 17" with specs listed below.

After Effects CS3 is running fine. What's the solution?

Model Name: MacBook Pro

  Model Identifier: MacBookPro5,2

  Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo

  Processor Speed: 3.06 GHz

  Number Of Processors: 1

  Total Number Of Cores: 2

  L2 Cache: 6 MB

  Memory: 8 GB

  Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz

  Boot ROM Version: MBP52.008E.B05

  SMC Version (system): 1.42f4

  Serial Number (system): W89400R18YB

  Hardware UUID: E2300327-D5D3-5DC2-85CF-9FFA9CEAD9ED

  Sudden Motion Sensor:

  State: Enabled

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    Correct answer Todd_Kopriva

    This bug is fixed in the After Effects CC (12.1) update:

    http://adobe.ly/AE_CC_12dot1_details

    Let us know how this works for when you've tried with the new update.

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    Maherso
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    May 1, 2010

    Same for me, I'm trying a lot of things but nothing work – I keep checking and let you know If I've got a solution

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    Will_Lockwood
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    May 3, 2010

    There are 3 possible issues on the system. A corrupt font, a corrupt Adobe font list and/or a corrupt system font database.

    Try the following:

    1) On the Mac, delete all copies of the AdobeFnt.lst on the system. They will have a name like AdobeFnt10.lst, AdobeFnt11.lst, etc.. On the Mac this will be found in the /Library/Application  Support/Adobe/PDFL/9.0/Fonts folder.

    2) Then restart the system holding down the S key while the system is starting up for Safe Mode. That will reset the system database.

    On Windows,

    1) search and delete the AdobeFnt.lst files found in C:\Program Files\Common  Files\Adobe\PDFL\...,

    2) restart the system.

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    Maherso
    Participating Frequently
    May 3, 2010

    Hi Will,

    I did all that but nothing fixed the problems. Finally, I'm suspecting a corrupted drive. When I fix the drive with fsck command it gets corrupted after each system launch. I plan to clone my system on another drive, boot from the new one, check if everything is ok. I let you know.

    Todd_Kopriva
    Todd_Kopriva
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    May 1, 2010

    Start with the solutions listed here:

    http://aeerrors.myleniumstuff.de/?p=482

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