Can't use certain fonts in Flash CS6!

Please i have little assingment on photoshop and adobe can you help me?

Please i have little assingment on photoshop and adobe can you help me?

My company's design team recently encountered this issue and we were able to permanently resolve the issue. Here is what we discovered, and how we resolved the issue.

The GoogleFont project uses project versioning from Mercurial to keep community submissions orderly. Mercurial is a free software that you can install in Mac/Linux/Windows. I did so, and then attempted to clone the entire repository for the GoogleFont project to my Mac (Mac OS X 10.8.3). What I discovered in doing so is that many of the fonts are named identical to each other, with the only difference being case. For example, when cloning via Mercurial to my machine, Mercurial reports a "case-folding collision" when downloading:

meriweather.otf

meriweather.OTF

Mac OS's file system (HFS+) can't differentiate between these two files. So it treats them as one file. EXT in Linux doesn't mind duplicate names with different case, it treats them as two different files. So I cloned the repo to a Linux machine which had the added benefit that Mercurial does a CRC check to confirm without a doubt that the repo that I've just cloned is byte for byte identical to the fonts on the GoogleFont project (no chance of a corrupt font download) and then migrated the repo to my Mac. After doing so I imported the entirety of the repo into Suitcase Fusion. I can activate any of the Google fonts and they now appear to work correctly in Flash and every other CS6 application. 

Bottom line, I believe that Google's inclusing of identical font file names who's only difference is case is causing some kind of issue (maybe resources are being incorrectly overwritten during import to Windows and Mac platforms). Cloning the repo and importing into FontBook or SF4 works perfectly.

- MAC Users - OSX 10.8.2 CS6

I was having the same problem of @Erik H L, @Getzo_R and @PINKPANDAJUJU and i then used the 1st method written by @Kerikatet and it worked.

To sum it up:

[Method #1]

Reboot in safe mode by pressing the SHIFT key (it takes a while) so the OS clears the font cache.

Reboot then in normal mode and the fonts should show properly.

Recommended for those who have a truckload of fonts (like me) and can't really follow Method #2 because of the high number of fonts installed.

This worked smoothly for me. Bear in mind that you might have to repeat this operation every 2 months. Not a big hassle imho, while Adobe develops the fix.

[Method #2]

Move -ALL- fonts out of BOTH "USER" AND "COMPUTER" library fonts folder into a temporary folder (for example, create one on the desktop); this operation uninstalls them.

Move the misbehaving fonts back into the computer font folder (home/library/fonts).

Start Flash (it will "see" the fonts now) and make sure the fonts are there;

Close Flash

Add the remaining fonts.

@Action_Squish : that procedure Installs them. people here are dealing with fonts correctly installed already but not showing in Flash (while working perfectly in other Adobe products).

If you're on mac. Open it with font book and hit install. You should then see it automatically under "family"

I'm using OS X 10.8.2
so it has idd nothing to do with Windows or Mac like allready said

it's only in Flash, the rest of my adobe appz doesn't have that problem

I'm also having this issue, here are my experiences:

The font I need can be hlighlighted, even in static text mode disappears off the stage. I can still highlight and copy and past the font but once deselected it completely disappears. Compiling the swf reflects the missing fonts and is noticeable to other users. The font does appear again after changing my anti-alias mode back to 'use device fonts' - but disappears with 'Anti-alias for readibilty/animation. Using TLF makes the font show up, however; is not an acceptable solution as I need to support fp 9+.

I use flash every week or every other week or so. I think the last time I used it was early December and it was fine - so this is a recent issue for me. I'm using windows 7, and the issue is in my copy of flash cs4/cs5.5 and cs6. I've been tracking it down to a windows update, however; I can't confirm that yet. I did delete my fntcache.dat file and rebuilt the font cache with no luck.

With all this information, I'm lead to believe it's something new, something that adobe didn't introduce and is affecting Adobe Flash products. Photoshop is unaffected.

I'm having the same probs with my flash cs6, the font's aren't corrupt and still i don't see them in my fontlist

in the other programs like PS, AI, ID, i can use them, but not in flash

Any solutions yet??

I recently had some insane font problems in Flash CS6. Turns out my problem was corrupt fonts in Adobe's font cache. I'm on a windows machine, so I'm not sure of the directory, but both Adobe and OSX have their own font caches which you should clean out.

I've found rebuilding the font cache in OSX works sometimes, all you have to do is:

- shut down the computer

- reboot holding the left Shift key, this will put it into 'safe mode' which will rebuild the font cache

- after it's loaded, restart it normally to get back into normal mode