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Installed system Font does not show up in Illustrator CS6

Aug 9, 2012 7:14 AM

Tags: #illustrator #font #adobe #cs6 #windows7

I have Installed the Creative Suite 6 with InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator under Windows 7 Professional 32bit.

A customer specific font has been installed in Windows and shows up in Notepad, Microsoft Office 2010 and other programs including Photoshop CS6. For InDesign I had to copy it to the "Programdirectory"\Fonts folder and this worked fine.

Only Illustrator CS6 doesn't show this Font (a TrueType font "cust.ttf") as available when I want to format a text with it.

I've searched Google and Adobe but no luck so far.

Based on other articles I also renamed the "IllustratorFonts.lst file - but also to no avail...

Could someone shed some light on this, please?

Thanks in advance,

Max

1974 Views 4 Replies Latest reply: Pivot Investigator, Aug 13, 2012 9:00 AM

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1. Mylenium,

Aug 9, 2012 10:03 AM in reply to Pivot Investigator

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And what exactly is the "customer specific font"? Does it have proper unique identification info or is it just a modified standard font? In the latter case it may simply be ignored because that would mess with font family grouping and even font styles...

Mylenium

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2. Pivot Investigator,

Aug 10, 2012 5:34 AM in reply to Mylenium

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Thanks for your reply!
So what you are implying is that Windows 7 (including Notepad and other SW), Office 2010, Photoshop CS6 and InDesign do not care about what you described regarding font families, grouping and the like but only Illustrator does?
Regarding your question about the properties of the "customer specific font" I'd have to get details. Would you know where to find this either in the .TTF files or via a tool that can read this info (apart from getting the properties by right-clicking and going to the "Details"-page?

Thanks in advance,
Max

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3. emil emil,

Aug 10, 2012 4:30 PM in reply to Pivot Investigator

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Try copying the font from Photoshop and paste in Illustrator. It may be listed with a different name

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4. Pivot Investigator,

Aug 13, 2012 9:00 AM in reply to emil emil

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Thanks for your comments - seems someone has messed with the Arial Font here :-(
And so this seems to be the "solution"...

Thanks a lot,
Max

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