afaik ps never shipped with a font called rockwell. i don’t find it in my common files/adobe/fonts folder. is it something you installed with another program? or did you buy it seperately?
Hi Daryl,
I wish I could remember the specifics of this but the gist of it was:
There was a bug in a Font program that a lot of commerical fonts were designed in that caused the fonts to be identified incorrectly (Instead of latin they’re labeled something else). Photoshop 7.0 ignored this bug, but apparently CS does not. So these buggy fonts don’t work in western editions of CS. The solution was to edit a photoshop font list manually to change the font type. BUT I CANT REMEMBER THE NAME OF THAT FONT FILE. Does anyone remember it? Len?
~Hanford
ah… try scrolling down the list… it might be below the first iteration of A-Z.
Handford,
Is this what you were looking for?
Fonts in Illustrator and Photoshop are ordered alphabetically by writing script code, and use the PostScript Name. Consequently many fonts will not be where you expect them to be in the listing. For instance ZaphDingbats will be displayed as ITC ZaphDingbats. Additionally many TTFonts have the incorrect writing script as many foundries were using a font creation program with a bug in it. These will be in a 2nd alphabetically ordered listing below the first.
If you open the adobefnt*.LST file(s) (and there can be in excess of 50 of them), you will find those problem fonts have an entry for:
writingscript : easteuropean (or Greek or something other than Roman).
By editing the Adobefnt*.LST file(s) so those entries read writingscript: Roman, they will appear in the correct order and be usable. However, you will also need to set the adobfnt.lst file to read only, or it will revert when Illustrator is next opened. This means that Photoshop/Illustrator won’t see any additions or deletions to/from your active fonts.
The real cure is to get versions of those fonts that do not contain the bug.
Lastly, you can delete all adobefnt*.LST files on your machine – they will be rebuilt as required.
