3 Replies Latest reply: Jan 11, 2011 11:53 AM by Mylenium RSS

    Installed font problem

    nicobi Community Member

      Hello,

       

      I encounter the following difficulty. I have a photoshop document, which has a reference (a text area) to a specific, previously installed font : MyFont. When I open the psd file, I got a message from photoshop telling me there are some missing fonts. The text area has the font in bracket [MyFont], and I can replace it, as MyFont is also in the list of installed font...

      I would know if there was a possibility to fix this, that is to have MyFont correctly selected right from the start.

      I tried differents things, like clearing up the cache font, make a fresh install from photoshop... Nothing worked.

       

      Thanks for any answer,

       

      Nicolas Bigeard

        • 1. Re: Installed font problem
          Joprysko Community Member

          Normally you will get this message if a font that is not installed on the system was used in the image you are opening. If you feel you have the font installed but still recieving this error, the easiest fix is to pick the font layer, and change the font to the one you want to use and resave the document.

           

          The fonts actual file name may be spelled slightly different, have caps where the original didn't or some other subtle difference.

           

          Either way this should fix it.

          • 2. Re: Installed font problem
            nicobi Community Member

            Well the change of fonts for each layer is indeed a solution. I would like to avoid it. In fact the strange things that motivated this question, is that I performed the installation on 3 differents PC. On one of them, the font seems to be available. On the two other one, the very same font is installed, but the mentioned problem happens.

            • 3. Re: Installed font problem
              Mylenium CommunityMVP

              The font is not correctly identifying itself because it very likely lacks extended meta information for font family, creator, style groupings etc.. Depending on what other fonts are on the system, language settings and what operating system you use, this may result in the operating system identifying the font differently on different machines. so the name may appear to be the same, but the internal references are different. It's probably really a problem with teh font having been poorly crafted...

               

              Mylenium