Comments on: CS4 Font Installation

By: Pillow

Pillow — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 05:38:39 +0000

Thank you so much. I felt so much sadness for the past two hours trying to fix this missing font issue. Your video came to my rescue. May all good things come to you.

By: Jill

Jill — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:03:14 +0000

I am having serious font issues in Illustrator CS4 on Windows Vista. Since Windows and Adobe installed fonts (some True Type some Open Type) I have some fonts with the same name but they are a different type. When Illustrator encounters this, it refuses to open up the document. How do I know which font to delete?

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:03:14 +0000

I want to point people to another early blog post here that involves viewing fonts:
http://indesignsecrets.com/getting-indesign-to-see-your-fonts.php

@Glendale: You can install fonts in a number of ways, including the Fonts folder mentioned in the blog post linked above. But if you have a lot of fonts, I would recommend a font manager, such as Linotype Font Explorer Pro or Font Agent Pro or Extensis Suitacase Fusion.

By: Glendale Frank

Glendale Frank — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:30:39 +0000

Sorry if this has been asked…I have a MacG5 OS X and CS4. I want to install new fonts. Which do you prefer? Also, how and where is it installed and how do I access it from CS4 when I’m working on a new window?

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:19:40 +0000

Has anyone noticed that Illustrator is now able to display fonts that aren’t actually activated on your system? Seems like I’m seeing this occur when the font file is included in the same folder as the illustrator file. I open .ai files from my students and the fonts are active only in Illustrator even when they are not installed on my system or even activated with FontExplorer. But, at the same moment when Illustrator is open, those new fonts aren’t available in InDesign or Photoshop. Weird??

By: Gill

Gill — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:44:51 +0000

I have the same problem as Kevin. I need to use a couple of fonts to produce literature, and both are open type fonts installed on my system (Windows Vista.) I have recently installed CS4 and the fonts do not show up in InDesign, although they do in Acrobat Pro!

The Shared fonts file in Adobe does not exist. I have installed a shortcut to my system fonts file in my InDesign Fonts folder, then rebooted, but still no joy!

HELP!

By: Jane

Jane — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:54:49 +0000

I just installed CS4 and when I open a document from CS3 it says Helvetica Medium is missing. It is installed and activated using ATM deluxe (Windows XP) but it doesn’t show up on the list of fonts in Indesign. This font is available in Illustrator CS4.
Any ideas of what is going on?

By: Tricia

Tricia — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:01:47 +0000

Maybe its just me… but i have several fonts that don’t like to work in CS4. Any way to fix that?

By: John

John — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:51:34 +0000

I just installed photoshop Cs4 and it does give you an option to not install the fonts.

By: Anonomous Coward

Anonomous Coward — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:58:51 +0000

Also note that certain Swash Characters from Caslon Pro for example will go completely WONKY when you open them in CS4.

Changing font data without version re-numbering/re-naming is INSANE! Whoever sanctioned such activity at Adobe should be SACKED!!