Ariel font in Photoshop gone???

Hi, are you talking about a TrueType font or an Open Type font? I also had some problems to use my old Arial True type font, but I solved it by installing the Open Type version (It comes with the Adobe Creative Suite CS2 Pro – maybe with Photoshop only, also, but I am not sure.) If you have the Open Type version, try installing it and it should solve the problem.

(Sorry I can’t help more! I don’t know enough about the technical side of font management to know WHY this happens.)

TrailChic wrote:

Hi, this is my first post. [and yes…I already am asking for help]. It’s a big problem though… and I can’t figure it out.

I have ariel on my computer .I see it in my font folder. BUT I can’t use it in Photoshop. It’s just not there.

Anyone know what that could be?
I may have used my older adobe font manager deluxe a while back…but I dno’t use it anymore, and I don’t think that should be an issue.
Please, I am begging you guys…someone…HELP!!!

Thank you 😀

How many fonts do you have installed? If you have more than 400 some of them may not work in all programs. I’ve found this rather inconsistent in XP. Sometimes all installed fonts will work, even if there are more than 400 installed. Sometimes a random number will refuse to work in any application. Sometimes a random number will refuse to work only in some apps; Photoshop seems to be one of those that is the first to ignore.

Clyde

"TrailChic" wrote in message

Hi, this is my first post. [and yes…I already am asking for help]. It’s a big problem though… and I can’t figure it out.

I have ariel on my computer .I see it in my font folder. BUT I can’t use it in Photoshop. It’s just not there.

Anyone know what that could be?
I may have used my older adobe font manager deluxe a while back…but I dno’t use it anymore, and I don’t think that should be an issue.
Please, I am begging you guys…someone…HELP!!!

Thank you 😀

Try the following; Make PS refresh the font list.
Make sure the type tool is the front tool, switch over to Windows Explorer and
copy the missing font into the Adobe common fonts folder location (Program Files\Common\Adobe\Fonts), then switch back to Photoshop.

MH

I LOVE YOU!!!
Well…not really, but that DID work! THANK YOU!!! I copied the font to the common/adobe/font folder.
Thank you VERY MUCH!!!

Oh, and yes, I do have much more then 400 fonts. More in the 1500 range. I know I have to get rid of some sooner or later…but I can’t make up my mind which one to dump.

Again, thanks much!

Mike Hyndman wrote:

"TrailChic" wrote in message

Hi, this is my first post. [and yes…I already am asking for help]. It’s a big problem though… and I can’t figure it out.

I have ariel on my computer .I see it in my font folder. BUT I can’t use it in Photoshop. It’s just not there.

Anyone know what that could be?
I may have used my older adobe font manager deluxe a while back…but I dno’t use it anymore, and I don’t think that should be an issue.
Please, I am begging you guys…someone…HELP!!!

Thank you 😀

Try the following; Make PS refresh the font list.
Make sure the type tool is the front tool, switch over to Windows Explorer and
copy the missing font into the Adobe common fonts folder location (Program Files\Common\Adobe\Fonts), then switch back to Photoshop.
MH

Oh, and it was the true type font that I copied. I didn’t count all my font’s that are displaying in CS2,but I am sure it’s not all of them. I think I may have messed up when I installed the old font manager.

"TrailChic" wrote in message

I LOVE YOU!!!
Well…not really, but that DID work! THANK YOU!!! I copied the font to the common/adobe/font folder.
Thank you VERY MUCH!!!

I’m blushing now….;)
Thanks for the update.

Oh, and yes, I do have much more then 400 fonts. More in the 1500 range. I know I have to get rid of some sooner or later…but I can’t make up my mind which one to dump.

I read of someone who over 13000 fonts on their system! PS managed to cope with them but his OS must have slowed to a crawl. A decent font manager should solve your problem. Another problem is the source of the fonts; a lot of fonts found on the internet can be corrupt and PS will not like that.

MH

Mike Hyndman wrote:

"TrailChic" wrote in message

I LOVE YOU!!!
Well…not really, but that DID work! THANK YOU!!! I copied the font to the common/adobe/font folder.
Thank you VERY MUCH!!!

I’m blushing now….;)
Thanks for the update.

Oh, and yes, I do have much more then 400 fonts. More in the 1500 range. I know I have to get rid of some sooner or later…but I can’t make up my mind which one to dump.

I read of someone who over 13000 fonts on their system! PS managed to cope with them but his OS must have slowed to a crawl. A decent font manager should solve your problem. Another problem is the source of the fonts; a lot of fonts found on the internet can be corrupt and PS will not like that.
MH

I recently had this problem WITH Font Reserve as my font manager. I kept seeing and not seeing some of my fonts in CS2. It wasn’t consistent. Corel’s Font Navigator showed me which ones were active.

FR claimed to have about 800 active, but FN was showing 200 to 400 active. CS2 was following what FN was showing. I had the latest version of FR too. I never did find a real answer to why FR wasn’t showing correctly.

In playing around with it, I discovered that Font Navigator can activate fonts too. It also has Groups, which I didn’t use before. So, I painfully cut down my font list to under 400 and used FN to group and active them. It just makes a Windows shortcut of the font and puts that in \windows\fonts.

It appears that FR was doing nothing more than that too. FR in Windows is a pretty cheap and half-assed program. FR in OS X is a HUGE improvement and actually a useful tool. I’ve trashed FR and am just using FN to activate fonts.

Yes, it was painful to cut the list to under 400. It took some real self-honesty. In the past I’ve had as many as 2000 fonts active at any one time. I’ve been slowly cutting that list down by forcing myself to see how many of those I never actually used. Luckily the type of work I’ve been doing doesn’t demand nearly as many fonts either. So, I’m finding that the under 400 that I have really does work for me. Oh, I still have all those other fonts, so using them on those odd occasions that I need them is still an option. Loving a font that you never use isn’t a reason to keep it active.

BTW, as soon as I got under 400 Windows fonts, everything started to act right. I haven’t had a bit of fluctuation in fonts since. That may have something to do with the lack of Font Reserve too.

Clyde

Corel font navigator? Do I need corel installed in order for it to work? I have an older Corel version, like 9 or 10…and really am not using it, so I don’t want to install if I don’t need to. I still have adobe type manager deluxe 4.1 on my computer.

Thought I deleted it, but must’ve not done so. I may was worried that I’ll loose a lot of my fonts. I had messing wtih fonts. would be so much easier if windows would show the actual font of each font without having to click on it.

Clyde wrote:

Mike Hyndman wrote:

"TrailChic" wrote in message

I LOVE YOU!!!
Well…not really, but that DID work! THANK YOU!!! I copied the font to the common/adobe/font folder.
Thank you VERY MUCH!!!

I’m blushing now….;)
Thanks for the update.

Oh, and yes, I do have much more then 400 fonts. More in the 1500 range. I know I have to get rid of some sooner or later…but I can’t make up my mind which one to dump.

I read of someone who over 13000 fonts on their system! PS managed to cope with them but his OS must have slowed to a crawl. A decent font manager should solve your problem. Another problem is the source of the fonts; a lot of fonts found on the internet can be corrupt and PS will not like that.
MH

I recently had this problem WITH Font Reserve as my font manager. I kept seeing and not seeing some of my fonts in CS2. It wasn’t consistent. Corel’s Font Navigator showed me which ones were active.
FR claimed to have about 800 active, but FN was showing 200 to 400 active. CS2 was following what FN was showing. I had the latest version of FR too. I never did find a real answer to why FR wasn’t showing correctly.

In playing around with it, I discovered that Font Navigator can activate fonts too. It also has Groups, which I didn’t use before. So, I painfully cut down my font list to under 400 and used FN to group and active them. It just makes a Windows shortcut of the font and puts that in \windows\fonts.

It appears that FR was doing nothing more than that too. FR in Windows is a pretty cheap and half-assed program. FR in OS X is a HUGE improvement and actually a useful tool. I’ve trashed FR and am just using FN to activate fonts.

Yes, it was painful to cut the list to under 400. It took some real self-honesty. In the past I’ve had as many as 2000 fonts active at any one time. I’ve been slowly cutting that list down by forcing myself to see how many of those I never actually used. Luckily the type of work I’ve been doing doesn’t demand nearly as many fonts either. So, I’m finding that the under 400 that I have really does work for me. Oh, I still have all those other fonts, so using them on those odd occasions that I need them is still an option. Loving a font that you never use isn’t a reason to keep it active.

BTW, as soon as I got under 400 Windows fonts, everything started to act right. I haven’t had a bit of fluctuation in fonts since. That may have something to do with the lack of Font Reserve too.

Clyde

TrailChic wrote:

Corel font navigator? Do I need corel installed in order for it to work? I have an older Corel version, like 9 or 10…and really am not using it, so I don’t want to install if I don’t need to. I still have adobe type manager deluxe 4.1 on my computer.

Thought I deleted it, but must’ve not done so. I may was worried that I’ll loose a lot of my fonts. I had messing wtih fonts. would be so much easier if windows would show the actual font of each font without having to click on it.

Clyde wrote:

Mike Hyndman wrote:

"TrailChic" wrote in message

I LOVE YOU!!!
Well…not really, but that DID work! THANK YOU!!! I copied the font to the common/adobe/font folder.
Thank you VERY MUCH!!!

I’m blushing now….;)
Thanks for the update.

Oh, and yes, I do have much more then 400 fonts. More in the 1500 range. I know I have to get rid of some sooner or later…but I can’t make up my mind which one to dump.

I read of someone who over 13000 fonts on their system! PS managed to cope with them but his OS must have slowed to a crawl. A decent font manager should solve your problem. Another problem is the source of the fonts; a lot of fonts found on the internet can be corrupt and PS will not like that.
MH

I recently had this problem WITH Font Reserve as my font manager. I kept seeing and not seeing some of my fonts in CS2. It wasn’t consistent. Corel’s Font Navigator showed me which ones were active.
FR claimed to have about 800 active, but FN was showing 200 to 400 active. CS2 was following what FN was showing. I had the latest version of FR too. I never did find a real answer to why FR wasn’t showing correctly.

In playing around with it, I discovered that Font Navigator can activate fonts too. It also has Groups, which I didn’t use before. So, I painfully cut down my font list to under 400 and used FN to group and active them. It just makes a Windows shortcut of the font and puts that in \windows\fonts.

It appears that FR was doing nothing more than that too. FR in Windows is a pretty cheap and half-assed program. FR in OS X is a HUGE improvement and actually a useful tool. I’ve trashed FR and am just using FN to activate fonts.

Yes, it was painful to cut the list to under 400. It took some real self-honesty. In the past I’ve had as many as 2000 fonts active at any one time. I’ve been slowly cutting that list down by forcing myself to see how many of those I never actually used. Luckily the type of work I’ve been doing doesn’t demand nearly as many fonts either. So, I’m finding that the under 400 that I have really does work for me. Oh, I still have all those other fonts, so using them on those odd occasions that I need them is still an option. Loving a font that you never use isn’t a reason to keep it active.

BTW, as soon as I got under 400 Windows fonts, everything started to act right. I haven’t had a bit of fluctuation in fonts since. That may have something to do with the lack of Font Reserve too.

Clyde

You can install Font Navigator all by itself. I use it to control over 20,000 fonts. I make fonts groups that have 100-350 fonts that I install when needed.
Works great!
Frank