How to install fonts in indesign cs5 mac

Hi I am taking over a job and just to clarify upfront the license is covered. I have both the pfm & pfb files and I only really need to use it for indesign (cs5) I have tried installing it in the application support/adobe/fonts and even created a fonts folder in the indesign CS5 folder it is not working in either place. Has something changed in CS5 should I be putting this someplace else?

thanks in advance for any help or advice you can offer.

Please Respond to swrlygrl at her other thread: http://forums.adobe.com/message/4224650

Message was edited by: Peter Spier

Hello and thank you both for your help with this.

I just found this video, which solved my problem:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfs-ZjVFgdM

It's also worth mentioning that, if you don't own licenses for the fonts, you're probably violating that license by getting your designer (for shame!) to send you copies of the fonts. But heck, even if you had just bought 'em yourself, you'd still need to be able to install 'em correctly.

If you've already searched Google for something like "install fonts on mac 10.6" and have followed the instructions on the first link (under "Locations where fonts can be stored") then you'll have to post more details for us to help you. For example:

Which fonts are they? (Not all fonts can be used by a Mac, like Type 1 fonts for Windows. Give us the complete name of the font, hopefully with a file extension.)

How do you know they are missing? (Sure, when you open up the document it gives you a missing font warning, but it might just be a font naming problem, like InDesign is looking for "Helvetica Neue LE Regular" and your font is called "Helvetica Neue Regular." You can use Find Font under the Type menu to find & replace if necessary. If you don't see the missing font warning when you open the file, how do you know the fonts are missing?)

Where have you tried to install them? (There's quite a few places to install a font on a Mac; have you tried any of them? It's worth pointing out that installing multiple copies of fonts in multiple locations can cause fonts to not be read in some circumstances.)

What version of InDesign are you using? (If it's CS5 and there's a "Document Fonts" folder in the same folder as the InDesign document you're trying to open, then InDesign is supposed to be able to read them, but sometimes it borks up and you have to move or delete the Document Fonts folder in order to get it to work.)

and there are other minor possibilities like

What languages are the fonts supposed to support? (InDesign puts its Chinese, Arabic etc. fonts all the way at the bottom of its window)

and

Are you sure that the fonts aren't damaged? (What size are the files? Are they still in a zipped folder? Maybe they were broken when you downloaded them from your email.)

et cetera