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June 23, 2009
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Unable to install Chinese Character Fonts in CS4

  • June 23, 2009
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Hi,

Wondering if anyone successfully installed new chinese characters fonts in PS CS4?

I downloaded some fonts, managed to install in Windows but these chinese fonts are not reflected in PS. I'm currently using Vista.

I only have problem with chinese fonts as installation of other fonts works well.

The chinese fonts i'm trying to install are named HanDing-CS-Fonts (Truetype).

Can anyone help me out with this?

Thanks! = )

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    Joel Cherney
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    Joel CherneyCommunity Expert
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    June 23, 2009

    I don't have that font, nor do I have CS4 yet, but I can make some guesses: some Googling inclines me to believe that the font is not well made. This thread over at DTPForum indicates that it doesn't even show up correctly in Character Map. That's not a good sign (I'm assuming you're using Windows platform, here). Is there any chance that it's showing up with a Chinese name in your font list? In your Type preferences, there's a "Show Font Names in English" checkbox.

    Barring that, I've noticed over the years that poorly-constructed fonts with decent multilingual coverage often show up in the wrong language category in Adobe products. You may want to scroll through your RTL and Thai fonts (which Pshop will show, even if it can't use them) to make sure that there's not a new font in there that is showing up with a broken name.

    These are all guesses, though. Best of luck.

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