Fonts and PS 7

[Aitana Hernandez]

I have a quick q. Has anyone had any problems with PS7 reading their installed fonts (any other than the win and adobe ones)? I just installed a batch of fonts that I bought online and PS 7 won't recognize them yet all other programs on my computer do. Any help is appreciated.

[dave milbut]

are you sure they're not in the list? did you scroll all the way down? ps sorts fonts by some internal name, not necessarily the name of the font file. check that.

if it still doesn't see them, search for adobefnt*.lst and delete whatever you find. then restart your system and restart ps. photoshop will rebuild the font list the next time you run it.

[Aitana Hernandez]

Thanks Dave, All I had to do was delete the adobefnt*.lst. And to answer your first q, I did go through the whole list (quite a few times too!) I just couldn't find it and I thought I was going insane ;-) So instead of panicking and damning Adobe to hell and back I thought I'd ask here. Once again, thanks!

[LenHewitt]

Aitana,

Fonts in Illustrator and Photoshop are ordered alphabetically by writing
script code. Many TTFonts have the incorrect writing script as many
foundries were using a font creation program with a bug in it.

If you open the adobefnt.LST file, 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 so those entries read writingscript: Roman,
they will appear in the correct order and be usable. However, you will also
need to set the adobefnt.lst file to read only, or it will revert when
Illustrator is next opened. This means that 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.

[dave milbut]

you're welcome aitana!

interesting len.