Same for me, I'm trying a lot of things but nothing work – I keep checking and let you know If I've got a solution

Hi Will,

I did all that but nothing fixed the problems. Finally, I'm suspecting a corrupted drive. When I fix the drive with fsck command it gets corrupted after each system launch. I plan to clone my system on another drive, boot from the new one, check if everything is ok. I let you know.

Hi,

Finally I found the solution, I don't know if it's gonna work for you, but you should give it a try. After hours of troubleshooting, I found that a missing Verdana Fonts (version 1.0 from Microsoft) is causing the problem. Just put Verdana in YourHardDrive/Library/Fonts and AfterEffects CS5 should start normally. It would be cool to have a better dialog box like "Unable to create font - please locate and Install Verdana".

For your convenience, you can download Verdana here : [removed by moderator, since Verdana is not a freely distributable font]

Enjoy

After Effects Warning Unable To Create Font

@Maherso

Thanks that works perfect.

Verdana, Typeface and data © 1996 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved Version 2.45 - Thursday, 8 April 2004 08:00

Hi Karolus,

The link is now working, enjoy...

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You can buy Verdana font from Microsoft site for 30$ (aamof from Ascender Corporation). It's not legal to download it from above links (unless this guy have license for sharing this font, and I doubt about that). It is laughing because after you spend 999$ for a software, you have to pay 30$ more for the fonts. Did Adobe have no money for licensing this font?

I tried this soln ..and it's worked finally

Thanks

For me the Adobe update *DID NOT* fix this but copying over and activating the Veranda family of fonts from my MBP that had Office on it, did - kind of a sorry situation if this is what's actually needed to fix it but at least there is a way.

The Verdana trick worked for me too. AE’s type engine fails if there isn’t a font at /Library/Fonts/Verdana.ttf —common, simple programming problem. Mahalo for posting all this, guys!

Thank you!!! This totally worked for me!!

Worked for me (I ended up adding all the Verdana affiliates as well....bold..italic..etc)

Such a relief, as I had already gone through a reinstall, and several other troubleshooting workarounds...

thanks!!!

jon

It's important that you install the specific version of Verdana that comes with AE… probably something to do with its ID #… sounds like you got it figured out!!

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Thanks guys

I updated to the current after effects and I am still getting this problem. I have homework to finish today. Please help! :-)

And now for something completely different:

I was having this problem and I went to the Fonts folder and saw that Verdana was there!  Just for giggles, I went ahead and dragged the font out of the folder and, yes, After Effects worked just fine for me afterwards!

I'm running a 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo iMac on 10.6.8, but this problem also reared its ugly head when I was running 10.5.

I have encountered the same problem on OSX 10.7.3 and I searched for Verdana in the FontBook to find that it was only disabled. Try this first; all you may need to do is enable the font family.

I hope this is helpfull and nobody needs to spend 30$ to fix this error.