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Chuck M
Inspiring
January 23, 2018
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My 28 Myriad Pro fonts work in InDesign but not in MS Publisher

  • January 23, 2018
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I've had the fonts for over 20 years. The regular and condensed came with an Adobe app. I bought the semi-condensed, if memory serves, bought them from Adobe. I have the current Creative Suite. They show and work fine in those up-to-date apps. But MS Publisher (which is current and which I must use for nonprofit clients) only shows 8 of the 28 and gives them the wrong names. Behaves erratically. My new work in Publisher is supposed to match old work in InDesign, and it can't, because the Myriad Pro fonts don't work. My questions are two-fold. Is there anything I can do to make the fonts work in Publisher -- or should I accept that they won't work? Secondly, given the age of the fonts, given my switch from Mac to Windows 10, and given my moving to a new location, I have no paperwork on buying the semi-condensed 10 fonts. Typekit can't help 'cuz I didn't buy them from Typekit. I have found nothing on the Adobe site about font registration. Is there anything to be done to download the latest versions of these fonts in hope it will fix this situation?

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    Anonymous
    January 24, 2018

    https://forums.adobe.com/people/Chuck+M  schrieb

    I've had the fonts for over 20 years. ...

    Secondly, given the age of the fonts, given my switch from Mac to Windows 10 ...

    Which file format are the missed fonts?

    If Postscript, then you need 2 files for a successful installation on a Windows PC: the *.pfb and the *.pfm.

    Double click the *.pfm file and it will install.

    Fenja

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    Chuck MAuthor
    Inspiring
    January 24, 2018

    Thanks.

    All 28 are labelled OpenType font file. (They probably were Postscript at first, but decades ago I updated them once or twice when I was still on a Mac. All/most give year 2005. Have no license info to try updating them now.)

    In looking for substitution fonts, I installed DejaVu Sans. Less than half of the family show in Publisher.

         1.     Think I should try to get Office 365 to reinstall Publisher.

         2.     "Fonts" says I have 280 fonts installed in my up-to-date Windows 10 HP laptop with 16 gig of memory. Many are free fonts. Could they be fighting among themselves? I could try turning off the added ones as a test, IF I could tell which ones need to be left active..

    Chuck M

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    Anonymous
    January 24, 2018

    No, they don't fight among themselves (LOL) as long as they are different fonts and not the same font(s) in different font format(s) or duplicate font Files & names with slight internally differences.

    These thoughts come to my mind:

    a) It's the Publishers fault. I've got the old Publisher 2010 and it makes exactly the same mistakes in the assignment of the font weights to the font names. Microsoft has never done much for the development of Publisher.

    b) I don't know if you are used to the "B" and "I" buttons for to get the bold, italic and bold-italic font faces. They will never be listed in the drop down font list. By the way, it's the same in my Microsoft Word 2010.

    c) Anyway I see no way to resolve this issue than using the reachable fonts or another font family. I'm afraid reinstalling Publisher or the complete Office Suite will not make them smarter.

    Fenja

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