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Missing Fonts

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June 16, 2007
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There are fonts installed on my system, which are available in Word, CorelDraw, and other applications, but they do NOT show up, at all, in the fonts list of ANY CS2 application ... InDesign, Photoshop or Illustrator. This situation might be true of OTHER fonts, but the only ones I'm conscious of are the basic four variations of Arial Narrow, and Arial Black. (Arial Black Oblique is ALSO installed, and it IS available.)

These EXACT SAME fonts WERE available in Adobe applications, as long as I was using XP. Now that I've switched to Vista, they've ceased to function.

I've tried reinstalling these fonts and rebooting. What else can I do?

Thanks!

bilglas

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Peter Spier

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Did you check your font versions? I'm curious if they are the same as mine.

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_Al_White_

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Hi Peter
This problem seems to be all over the boards since at least Feb.
I have a brand new machine with Vista pre-instaled. I had Illus CS2 installed on an XP machine and the fonts all show up there. I have a friend with CS3 and he has the same problem. So, actually it appears to be a CS2/3//Vista problem.

Peter Spier

Community Expert

Looking back on other threads I see this is a Vista issue, apparently, and not a CS3 issue as folks reported it with CS2 as well.

http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx/.3bc3df43/0

Peter Spier

Community Expert

Because I don't have this problem I thought maybe it's a version issue.

The four variants of Arial narrow all show up in my fonts folder as separate file, and double clicking any of them to get a sample and font data reveals that they are all OpenType with TrueType outlines (they all have the .ttf extension, if you make it show) and are version 2.3 from Monotype. As far as I know, these fonts were included with Office 2000, but I won't swear to it as they could also have been part of the Windows XP installation.

Do you have a newer or older version on your system?

Peter

Peter Spier

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I've always found saying "Please" to be more effective than baseball bats, but I'm not dealing with Vista. That is very odd.

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_Al_White_

Participating Frequently

PS - Peter
Vista won't allow me to copy the font files to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Fonts. I tried dragging, copy/paste, threatening gestures with a baseball bat... They just won't copy - no error message - just nothing happens.

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_Al_White_

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I have the exact same problem. I spent 4 hours yesterday trying everything immaginable to fix this - nothing worked. Specifically, illus. can't see the Arial Narrow family. It lists Arial as the family and Narrow as a style but can't see Arial Narrow Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, etc.
Any ideas?

Peter Spier

Community Expert

I don't have Vista, but try copying the fonts (don't move them or non-Adobe apps won't see them) to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Fonts

Peter

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yelm

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Thank you Peter! your first bit of advice helped me --- "try copying the fonts (don't move them or non-Adobe apps won't see them) to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Fonts"

Details for the record: I was having this issue after installing InDesign CS4 on Windows XP. I was missing Myriad Pro Regular (but all of the other myrads were intact). strange that it was missing, but now it works!

Good luck to all you Vista users out there. I heard that designers are having better luck with windows 7. Hope that's true!

-bf

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