Another weird font issue

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Norm Dresner
Nov 19, 2008
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Context: CS2. WinXP + Win2K. All updates to everything.

I’ve got about 800 fonts installed on each of the two machines and in both cases, CS2 refuses to allow the use of certain fonts. They’re simply not in the drop-down list of "available fonts" although they are clearly installed on the machine and available to all other programs that I’ve tried. They’re TrueType fonts. If you want to find them on the web, they’re Aharoni and Narkisim.

I even tried to select the type in another program and copy it to the clipboard and then paste it into CS2 but what I got was the rendition of those characters in whatever was the currently selected font in CS2, not the original font.

Eventually I created the script in PowerPoint and used it to save a .JPG file which I could then open in CS2 but it shouldn’t have to be that hard.

Suggestions?

TIA
Norm
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jjs
Nov 19, 2008
"Norm Dresner" wrote in message
Context: CS2. WinXP + Win2K. All updates to everything.
I’ve got about 800 fonts installed on each of the two machines and in both cases, CS2 refuses to allow the use of certain fonts. They’re simply not in
the drop-down list of "available fonts" although they are clearly installed
on the machine and available to all other programs that I’ve tried. They’re
TrueType fonts. If you want to find them on the web, they’re Aharoni and Narkisim.

Adobe used different font engines across its platform, so what works in one may not work in another.

In my experience, some old fonts will not work.
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akphotog
Nov 19, 2008
I would highly recommend a font manager such as extensis.

"Norm Dresner" wrote in message
Context: CS2. WinXP + Win2K. All updates to everything.
I’ve got about 800 fonts installed on each of the two machines and in both cases, CS2 refuses to allow the use of certain fonts. They’re simply not in
the drop-down list of "available fonts" although they are clearly installed
on the machine and available to all other programs that I’ve tried. They’re
TrueType fonts. If you want to find them on the web, they’re Aharoni and Narkisim.

I even tried to select the type in another program and copy it to the clipboard and then paste it into CS2 but what I got was the rendition of those characters in whatever was the currently selected font in CS2, not the
original font.

Eventually I created the script in PowerPoint and used it to save a .JPG file which I could then open in CS2 but it shouldn’t have to be that hard.
Suggestions?

TIA
Norm
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Dave
Nov 19, 2008
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:21:19 -0800, "tweaked_eye" wrote:

I would highly recommend a font manager such as extensis.

"Norm Dresner" wrote in message
Context: CS2. WinXP + Win2K. All updates to everything.
I’ve got about 800 fonts installed on each of the two machines and in both cases, CS2 refuses to allow the use of certain fonts. They’re simply not in
the drop-down list of "available fonts" although they are clearly installed
on the machine and available to all other programs that I’ve tried. They’re
TrueType fonts. If you want to find them on the web, they’re Aharoni and Narkisim.

I even tried to select the type in another program and copy it to the clipboard and then paste it into CS2 but what I got was the rendition of those characters in whatever was the currently selected font in CS2, not the
original font.

Eventually I created the script in PowerPoint and used it to save a .JPG file which I could then open in CS2 but it shouldn’t have to be that hard.
Suggestions?

TIA
Norm

Somebody repeating Norm’s letter without adding anything to it? Why?
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KatWoman
Nov 19, 2008
"Norm Dresner" wrote in message
Context: CS2. WinXP + Win2K. All updates to everything.
I’ve got about 800 fonts installed on each of the two machines and in both cases, CS2 refuses to allow the use of certain fonts. They’re simply not in
the drop-down list of "available fonts" although they are clearly installed
on the machine and available to all other programs that I’ve tried. They’re
TrueType fonts. If you want to find them on the web, they’re Aharoni and Narkisim.

I even tried to select the type in another program and copy it to the clipboard and then paste it into CS2 but what I got was the rendition of those characters in whatever was the currently selected font in CS2, not the
original font.

Eventually I created the script in PowerPoint and used it to save a .JPG file which I could then open in CS2 but it shouldn’t have to be that hard.
Suggestions?

TIA
Norm

I got some type errors when opening old files
it says the font is not found but I have the fonts installed when I check I had to swipe the text and re-apply the font (does that make sense?) Adobe used to store fonts in it’s own system and windows in another now it seems they share system fonts

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