How do I get PS to see all my available font styles?

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November 23, 2018
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Sorry for the newbie question!

The attached pic shows two screenshot sections. The left-hand one shows a standard font-picking dialog box from a program I wrote (using Visual Studio) to make up sheets of labels. The right-hand one shows the font-picking menu from PS CS6. As you can see, I can use (for instance) Arial Narrow Bold in my own application, but that particular font style doesn't seem to be available in Photoshop.

I'm guessing this is an issue concerning the file naming of fonts on my system - is there a way I can get PS to see all the available font styles?

(I'm using Ps CS6 running on Windows 7 Pro)

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Correct answer TonyMo22

I found the following page:

The Typekit Blog | Arial Narrow gets fixed

This is from ten years ago so you wouldn't think it would be relevant.

However my font list looked like yours, but I tried the suggestion at the end:

The trick is that you need to rebuild the Adobe font cache mechanism. First, exit all Adobe programs. Then, search and delete ALL files of the form AdobeFnt##.lst where ## is a two digit number.”

This has given me the same list of Arial fonts as I can see in Windows, although I don't see Arial Narrow.