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Anonymous

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Legally owned and installed Helvetica not showing up on Windows 7 Adobe CS3 Master Collection

Forum|Forum|15 years ago
March 4, 2010
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I have owned and used a licensed version of Helvetica for a number of years now (typing with one arm since the purchase cost me an arm AND a leg, hehe) - I recently "upgraded" to Windows 7 and reinstalled all of my fonts which all show up other than Helvetica. Helvetica DOES show up in other applications such as Office Word, but not any of my Adobe products. These are Type 1 fonts.

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pumm3l

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Thought I would answer this since I had to go through the same thing with Helvetica on win7 x64. I found this post during a search and figured out how to get Helvetica in CS3:

After installing the Helvetica in the Windows 7 Fonts folder located at C:\Windows\Fonts I highlighted the Helvetica fonts in the windows \font folder and copied them to C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\Fonts\Helvetica

And now the Helvetica font is available in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, etc.

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sevymn

Participant

This totally worked for me! Thanks.

signed

A desperate graphic designer looking for my Helvetica!

Dov Isaacs

Legend

There was a problem with the CS3 applications and the 64-bit versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7 in terms of Type 1 fonts installed in the system fonts directory. This was fixed for CS4.

The workaround, very simply stated, is to copy the .PFM and the .PFB files into the private font directory for CS3. Then they are recognized by the CS3 applications.

- Dov

PS: I doubt whether you “own” any Helvetica fonts; what you do own are licenses to use those fonts.

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)

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Anonymous

Exactly - that is why I said I had a legally owned license I believe that is

what I said anyway - a few hundred is all it cost - to "own" the family I

would be rich:)

Thanks will look into that tip.

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Anonymous

It sounds as if you didn't install the font(s) properly. You need both

the .pfm and .pfb files to be in the same source folder/directory, and

you should use the standard Windows font installation procedure (not

just drag and drop or copy into the Windows/Fonts folder.

- HerbVB

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Anonymous

I have never received the "pvm" files - how can I receive these? I have the

"pfb" files only - do you need any further info from me about my order

number?

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Anonymous

' I have never received the "pvm" files ... '

That's .PFM, (for Printer Font Metrics) not pvm.

Some vendors supply .pfb + .afm + .inf, which the old Adobe Type

Manager could convert to .pfb+.pfm as it installed.

However, you could not possibly have used a Type 1 font with only a

.pfb file. It simply wouldn't have worked.

MS Apps and Adobe apps are different in that MS Apps only list ONE of

the four styles of font - you select the Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic

Versions with separate B and I buttons. Adobe applications display

all of the available font files separately, e.g. Helvetica, Helvetica

Bold, etc.

But that still wouldn't explain why Adobe Apps don't see the font.

When you say that you previously had the fonts working and installed,

how did you transfer them to your new computer or operating system?

Did you use the original distribution materials or some transfer method?

- Herb

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