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forest1980
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June 7, 2009
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New font not showing up in photoshop [CS8.0] [2009] [LOCKED]

  • June 7, 2009
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Hi

I have a new font (Gill Sans Shadowed) but it won't show up in Photoshop, yet it shows up in MS word.  Other fonts I added at the same time are showing up but this particular font won't show up. The file name is Gill Sans Shadowed.ttf & it was added into fonts folder in library. Am using an iBook G4. Photoshop CS 8.0.

 

Any ideas as to why its not showing and how I can get it to work?

 

Thanks

 

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Correct answer Chris Cox

Thanks for your reply.

Right now I am only using Font Book. The font works when I moved it to the Adobe font directory, so the missing fonts don't appear to be corrupt. They also work fine in other apps, like Pages. They used to show up and worked just fine in PS. I think there was a software update Adobe released a few days ago. Other than that, I can't think of anything that I might have done or changed that would have caused this.


Yes, Photoshop released an update -- make sure you installed it.

Beyond that, the only things that can make a font not appear in Photoshop while it appears in other apps: corrupt font, the OS font cache is corrupted, the OS font APIs are broken.

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jazw15252357
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March 9, 2022

I have exactly the same problem but not just for one font, for lots of my fonts I use regularly - my way round it for what I needed to do was open Illustrator, use the font, create outlines and copy it as a smart object into my PSD document. I right pain in the backside and Adobe really need to sort this out as my Photoshop (the latest 2022 version) shows lots of useless Chinese, Japanese, Arabic etc that are useless fot me that I can't delete or turn off but the fonts I want to use - half of them don't appear.

 

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    Douglas2360881624ei
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    March 16, 2022

    Same issue here. All fonts load in Illustrator. Many fonts will not load in PS (2022). Very frustrating.

    Trevor.Dennis
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    Trevor.DennisCommunity Expert
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    March 16, 2022

    Guys can you start a new thread for this please?  It sounds like it might be an issue but it won't be related to this thread that was started  13 years ago.

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      ashleyc15656297
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      November 10, 2018

      Have you tried going to the zipped folder and extracting the contents, and then going into the folder and click to view the fond and on the top left there should be an install option?

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      Anonymous
      June 7, 2009

      Most of us here use a font Manager to activate our fonts. most of us use FontAgent Pro

      Did you use font book? Apples built in font manager to activate the font.

      You can also put the font in Photoshops font folder but it can only be seen by photoshop.

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      forest1980Author
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      June 8, 2009

      Hi

      Thanks for the reply.  I can't seem to find my photoshop font folder anywhere?

      I pasted the font into the general font folder. It was pasted along with about 40 other fonts. Typically all the others have shown up, except for the one I need to use most!

      I tried playing about with font manager but not exactly sure what to do with it & still won't work.

      I even downloaded a trial of font agent pro but again, not exactly sure how it works but had a mess about with it but the font i need still won't show up in photoshop

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      Anonymous
      June 8, 2009

      Sorry I was thinking of Indesign font folder.

      Try putting the font in (your system drive) > Library > Application Support > Adobe > Fonts

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