Comments on: Fix Font Problems Correctly

By: kevo

kevo — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:11:05 +0000

@David Blatner - Thanks for the link to that post vis a vis my Arial Narrow problem, but unfortunately, that doesn’t fix it

I’ve rebuilt the font list and CS4 still won’t recognize Arial Narrow on my system. The CS3 INDD does, and Word does, but for some reason CS4 INDD just won’t find it and continues only to list the Arial Narrow Special fonts (Oddly enough, I can see both the “regular” Arial Narrow and the Arial Narrow “specials” in Word).

This is a BIG problem in my workflow, as it inhibits filesharing with my officemates. And I HAVE to share files with others.

Any other suggestions would be much appreciated. (For what it’s worth, I’m running Word 2003 on an XP platform).

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:11:39 +0000

@Kevo: Does this post answer the Arial Narrow problem?

By: kevo

kevo — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:19:59 +0000

I’ve installed InDesign CS4 and the bugs are really bugging me. One in particular: it doesn’t recognize that I have Arial Narrow on my machine. A file that looks fine in CS4, doesn’t work in CS4. When I try to find the font, it offers me something called Arial Narrow Special CG1 (or some such). This is really irritating and making me sorry that I upgraded before they delivered the first patch for the program. Man, is Adobe sloppy…another bug is one in Acrobat which makes it impossible to drag and replace pages across documents. It always adds them, instead of replacing. Any suggestions for either of these probs?

By: Irene

Irene — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:27:09 +0000

In InDesign CS2 when my type goes to print, some fonts such as Comic Sans MS and Palatino and sometimes Times Roman the “f & l” or “f & i” font does not print when typed in a word together. Like the word “floor” or “fixture” or”Pacific”. What causes this? I am using a MAC OS X, version 10.4.11.
If I have to find all my “fl and fi” letters in a huge body of text, this could take forever to put a kern in them.

Any quick fixes to this problem?

By: Chad

Chad — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:27:23 +0000

100k is the limit for me. It seems to give me the least amount of problems and following this guideline makes everything just run better.

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:52:45 +0000

Tim, does it print correctly from any other application? Perhaps that font doesn’t have an fl ligature? Try putting a little kerning between the two letters to break the ligature apart?

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:00:33 +0000

While using InDesign CS2, whenever I type the letters F and L together with the Clarendon Condensed font, the letters do not print. Any ideas how to resolve this issue?

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:51:33 +0000

We are having a problem getting ITC Garamond 1 to work properly with InDesign CS3. The bold shows up in suitcase and font book, but will not appear in the font list of InDesign. The light, light italic and bold italic appear to work okay.

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 17:34:32 +0000

Tom, are you saying the equations don’t appear in InDesign properly? Or that they don’t appear in MS Word properly? We’re an InDesign site, so I’m guessing we won’t be able to help you with the latter.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 15:46:39 +0000

Recently I have had a font problem. My equation editor in msword 2003 is not displaying the equations I am writing. I am not a computer person but I would appreciate a fix to this problem. I am writing a maths book and I am anxious hours of work have go to waste. Please help.