I installed a TrueType font that I've created and it doesn't show up in Photoshop, but it does show

Hi to all. I've decided to make a new font, a new file. This time works. Must have been some problem with the original file. Thank you all for the help. :-)

Don,

Similar for Photoshop/Mac. The problem is often duplicate or corrupted fonts. And for Mac, a (vague) limit on how many fonts will be simultaneously recognized in the app.

Neil

> That's not something I've ever come across either.

Neither have I. Probably both of us aren't picking up fonts from suspect sources (Warez and freeware sites). But about once a month or more someone in the PC Photoshop forum comes up with a problem of fonts missing or the program not loading.

Usually the problem is not the tool, but how it's wielded.

I'd get the font checked by somebody knowledgeable who is going to crack it open in a font editor, as well as use checking tools such as FontValidator (Microsoft) and CompareFamily (Adobe).

Unfortunately, said tools are not really useful to beginners right away, because you need to be able to interpret the output and understand what might and might not cause this sort of problem....

Regards,

T

Isa,

I don't know how good Font Creator is in font creation or verification. The pros tend to use apps like FontLab.

As for font management, I can only speak from a Macintosh perspective. Font Agent Pro is generally acknowledged as the best of the lot for Macs. Others Use Suitcase or Font Reserve or the free Font Explorer from Linotype. You may want to hang around for some Windows-specific responses. In any case, with as many fonts as you have on your system, you need font management so you're not tripping over exceedingly long font menus and you don't slow down your system.

Neil

>Photoshop sometimes will not load if it runs into a badly built font.

That's not something I've ever come across either.

Dominic

I should have been more clear. Photoshop sometimes will not load if it runs into a badly built font. You are correct that it does not crash.

Hi Neil. I used FrontCreator 5.6 to create the font. I have 1074 fonts installed in my PC. What you suggest as a font manager?

Thanks for all the help from all of you

>one bad font will stop the program

I've never heard this before. In my experience, Windows and Adobe apps generally just don't recognise incorrectly constructed fonts and I've never known such a font to crash or otherwise disrupt an app like Photoshop.

On W2K and later PCs, you can easily have several thousand fonts installed and active.

> know that Photoshop has a limit on how many fonts can be active simultaneously

Not on the PC side, but one bad font will stop the program, and this means that too many fonts can be dangerous. (Chris Cox, a PS programmer, is my source on this one.)