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Illustrator can't find new font

Forum|Forum|16 years ago
February 12, 2010
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I am trying to use a new font I just downloaded online. When I try to use the font it doesn't show up in the selection. I looked and the font is located in my user > me > library > fonts folder but still won't find it. I even tried to put it in Macintosh HD > Library > Fonts with also no luck. I tried this with multiple fonts to see if I have the same issue...sure enough, I did.

These are .ttf files.

It's funny because all the Adobe programs refuse it but programs like TextEdit, and Font Book seem to find it fine.

Any help?

System: Mac OS X Version 10.6.2

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cjscott09

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Use the .otf file instead of .ttf. This is what works for me.

rex_tony

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Guys, i sometimes take Different Language fonts, is there any solution for the same problem in Windows ??

Monika Gause

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rex_tony schrieb:
Guys, i sometimes take Different Language fonts, is there any solution for the same problem in Windows ??

Please create your own thread. Describe the problem exactly. Post your version and system.

This thread is 5 years old. In fact it's so old that it's beginning to smell bad.

Jacob Bugge

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Breath,

It's funny because all the Adobe programs refuse it but programs like TextEdit, and Font Book seem to find it fine.

This seems to imply that your new font is not really viable, corrupt even: Illy is maybe more sensitive than anyone else, because Live Type is both text and changeable shape, so the font has to meet certain requirements above and beyond being an assembly of letters.

In this case, the font seems to be bad enough to annoy her sisters as well.

I believe what they are trying to tell you, in their gentle way, is: That is not a font, (This is a font, being added when you pick a good one).

BreathOTroofAuthor

Participating Frequently

That does sound like good reasoning, but I tried to uninstall and then re-install a font that I already had working fine on Illustrator, when I tried to re-install the font...Illustrator couldn't find it. Even though it had no problem before.

I tried to download this font >> http://fontfabric.com/?p=763

Which should be from a reliable source...same problem. With every font I try to install, Illustrator isn't uploading it.

BreathOTroofAuthor

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In CS3 it's [User]>Library>Preferences>Adobe Illustrator CS3 Settings>Adobe Illustrator Prefs

Peter

I believe I found the place I was looking for, but am unsure what to do with it.

I moved the entire folder Adobe Illustrator CS4 Settings to my desktop, I noticed after I opened Illustrator after that it made a new folder with default preferences...but still no change, still cannot find a font as common as Myriad Pro.

Also it said I was supposed to delete a hidden files so I made hidden files show but couldn't find the AIprefs one...

Screen shot of where I'm looking:

PS: Problem is also in all other programs such as InDesign, Photoshop etc

Uninstalled and reinstalled CS4 but problem still continues.

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Wade_Zimmerman1

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Since you do not have any other font management program remove the font fro where you placed them.

The open Font Book. Select All Fonts.

The drag the folder or individual fonts into the middle window of Font Book where the fonts are listed and let go.

The fonts will be added and Ilustrator will be able to read them.

BreathOTroofAuthor

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I dragged the font into the All Fonts tab...still Illustrator can't find it. Grrr.

It's weird because this problem seems to be all the sudden, my other online fonts work just fine, are located in the same folder that this new one is, yet Illustrator can't find it...

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