I use Post-Script Type 1 Fonts from the Adobe Font Folio.
I install and/or loaded the fonts with MainType 2.1.1 und it works great on all CS3 Programms (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Flash…) until now.
But now i install the new CS4 Collection on my system (cs3 is allready installed). All cs4-Programms dont Display the PostScript-Fonts in de Text-Menu… this error comes only in CS4 (photoshop, indesign, flash, etc.) MainType says, Font is installed and loaded… i work on VISTA Home Premium 64-bit.
Is this Problem a knowed error?
does CS4 a other way to handle PS_Fonts den ins cs3?
please let me know, i can work at the moment on cs4, because of the missing PS-Fonts
(all openType or TrueType-Fonts doing well)
Thans for your Feedback an sorry for my bad swiss-english
If i’m right, Adobe is slowly canceling the PS fonts support in their future Adobe CS suites. OpenType is the future… If you go to Adobe Store/Fonts, you’ll see, that they are selling almost only OTF fonts, the same goes for Font Folio.
Anyway, i hope, Erwin will see this thread and can answer your questions.
If PostScript Type 1 fonts installed by other means (e.g. directly through Windows font folder) also fail to display in Adobe Creative Suite 4 Products, I suggest you contact Adobe. If this only affects MainType, then we’ll have to look into it.
I tested installing Type1 fonts with MainType 2.1 and the fonts don’t show in CS4 products. By installing them directly via the explorer they do show. I think it’s a problem with MainType.
You should use MainType version 2.1.1. Please let us know if that solves the problem. Loading the fonts is fine with most software, but I suspect Adobe software might have problems with that, so I suggest you install the fonts.
I have the same problem:
PostScript 1-Fonts are accessible within Indesign CS3 and other Applications such as Word, but not within all Apps of the Creative Suite CS4. PostScript 1-Fonts that are installed via the Fonts-Directory of Windows are displayed properly and are working with CS4.
I looked up the Adobe knowledge base, but there seems to be no such problem listed, so I think the problem is Main Type.
Could you please investigate what the problem might be? It’s not easy to switch to the new software package as long this problem exists.
When you install the PostScript Type 1 fonts through MainType, do you let MainType copy the font files into Windows font folder? You can enable this setting through Tools → Options on the Fonts tab.
Fabian, i have activated the option “copy postscipt to windows font folder” in maintype 2.1 like you suggered, but the font don’t appear in cs4 product.
I’m on windows 7 rc x64, and when i selecting this option, my postcript font appears on windows font folder(C:\Windows\Fonts) when i browsing on maintype, but don’t appears when i go on C:\Windows\Fonts with the explorer windows folder. So, postscript font don’t show on cs4.
When i install directly my postcript fonts without maitype or suitcase, they appears correctly on my C:\Windows\Fonts with explorer and they selectable correctly in cs4 product.
Do someone know how my postscript fonts could be installed and showed directly with maintype?
I’m sorry,I can’t help you, but I would encourage you to post this problem also in the Adobe forums (see link above).
I noticed a strange thing today: I tried to install a Rotis font with the method desribed above, but it did not show up in Illustrator CS4.
It did show up in Illustrator CS3 and when I copied some text written in Rotis via the clipboard into CS4, it worked. Suddenly, the font showed up in the fonts menu. Not correctly alphabetically sorted, but it worked. I tried this with all Rotis variants, all of them where working when a few characters where copy/pasted into Illustrator.
Erwin, is it possible that you could spend some thoughts on this?
We are about to release FontCreator 6, and due to the tight schedule we can’t look into it right now. We’ll investigate this issue as soon as we start working on MainType.
I did somewhere read, that Adobe is phasing out the support for Type 1 PostScript fonts, and that all began with Adobe CS4 apps.
Only OTF fonts (and TTF for legacy) will be supported in the next version of Adobe applications.
Hello Ervin,
I did read this somewhere on the Adobe Blogs - one of their programmers wrote this, that Adobe is phaseing out the support of Type 1 from their forthcomming products (and that is already with Adobe CS4), because they want to push the selling of their OpenType font products, etc.
The problem is, that now I cannot find that post… it seems they deleted it. I don’t know.
