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Font styles not showing up

Feb 4, 2013 4:57 PM

Tags: #illustrator #problem #font

Hello,

 

Certain font styles in Illustrator are not showing up, Arial bold italic, for instance.  Arial bold and Arial italic work, but I cannot select both.  Photoshop and other apps display it without problem.  I have re-installed the font, cleared my system font cache (Windows), and even tried putting the fonts into the "fonts" folder.  Still no luck.

 

I'm not sure if this is related but when Times New Roman is selected I get a strange rounded font that is definitely not Times New.  Again, only Illustrator is affected.

 

Can anyone offer any suggestions?

583 Views   7 Replies   Latest reply: Larry G. Schneider, Feb 7, 2013 10:16 AM
 
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  • Mylenium
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    1. Mylenium,
    Feb 4, 2013 7:05 PM   in reply to rondiculous
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    Weed out your fonts. Somehow your shuffling around of fonts has introduced a "bad" fond that eitehr wreaks havoc with font family based grouping or usurps a font identifier.

     

    Mylenium

     
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  • Mike Gondek
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    2. Mike Gondek,
    Feb 5, 2013 2:07 PM   in reply to rondiculous
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    Yes Times New Roman can be part of your problem, especially if Times New Roman PS enabled.

     
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    3. rondiculous,
    Feb 6, 2013 3:46 PM   in reply to Mylenium
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    Mylenium, thanks for your suggestion.  The workstation actually belongs to a client who does in fact import a lot of different fonts for her work.  I will call her and move/remove extra fonts and re-add the ones she needs to use now and let you know how it goes.

     

    But if it is in fact a bad system font, why is Illustrator the only application affected?

     
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    4. rondiculous,
    Feb 6, 2013 3:47 PM   in reply to Mike Gondek
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    Mike, I'll try removing Times New and see if that helps.  I'll let you know.  Thanks.

     
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    5. rondiculous,
    Feb 7, 2013 9:38 AM   in reply to Mylenium
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    I removed every add-on font on her workstation, leaving only what came with Windows 7.  Unfortunately, this did not solve her issue.  In Illustrator, she still cannot select Arial bold + italic.

     

    I also removed Times New for testing, it was not a PS font.

     

    Perhaps I need to re-install Illustrator?

     
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  • OldBob1957
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    6. OldBob1957,
    Feb 7, 2013 9:50 AM   in reply to rondiculous
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    rondiculous wrote:

     

     

    Perhaps I need to re-install Illustrator?

     

    Before doing that, I would try Reset Preferences:

     

    http://forums.adobe.com/thread/375776

     

    1) Close the program and press Ctrl+Alt+Shift/Cmd+Option+Shift during startup (not reversible)

     

    or

     

    2) Move the Folder. See:

     

    http://www.bugge.com/Family-and-friends/Illy/illy.html

     
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  • Larry G. Schneider
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    7. Larry G. Schneider,
    Feb 7, 2013 10:16 AM   in reply to rondiculous
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    You can also try clearing the font cache files. Look for Adobefnt*.lst where the* is a 2 digit number and trash those (with all the apps closed). Then restart the app to force a new cache file to be written.

     
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