Font doesn't show up in adobe CS2

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Hello everyone!

Today i’ve finally jumped into it and created my own first font using font creator. So i’m a real newbie when it comes to creating your own fonts.

This is my problem:
I’ve made a font, saved and installed it using font-creator. I’ve tested it in MS word 2003 and it works perfectly.

But now i’ve tried using it in illustrator CS 2 and it doesn’t show up in the list! neither does it show up in inDesign and Photoshop?!

So if anyone could help me explain what i’m doing wrong :frowning:

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Is the font installed into Windows fonts folder?

Maybe a reboot helps. If not, send the font file to me and I’ll look into this.

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Yes, the font is installed into the windows font folder. I’ve even removed the font name cache of windows and of adobe and that doesn’t even help.

The strange thing is: it shows up under word and excel, but it refuses to show under CS.

But I will send the file to you! Thank you already for your time :smiley:

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Thanks for the font file. It is a nice looking font. I’ve looked for potential errors in the font, but I can’t find any.

Nevertheless I’ve made some minor modifications that might do magic:

  1. I’ve changed the “Contents and Layout” version from 0 to 1. Then I used the Calculate buttons to set the Unicode and Code Page Character Ranges.
  2. I’ve removed (read disabled) the PCLT table, since Microsoft no longer recommends including this table.

Do let us know if this helps.

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I don’t know what you exactly did with the above described points, but it definitly helped!

The only thing is that in Indesign it shows it nicely sorted in the fontname list and in illustrator and photoshop it places it completly on the bottom of the list. But that’s of no immidiate concern now as the font is still in version 0.5 (it needs so much work yet :slight_smile:)

Thank you very very much.

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I’m glad to know this has solved the problem.

Did you set the version to 0 yourself? If so, I wonder why…

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I did set something to version 0.5 (as it isn’t the finished version yet :stuck_out_tongue:). But I thought that was somewhere near the copyright fill-in.

As I said before, i’m a complete newbie. And I’ve jst been hapily filling in stuff to see what it does basically. But I’m guessing I shouldn’t have done that? :stuck_out_tongue:

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You did change the Font Revision version located on the Header tab from 1.000 to 0.500, that is fine. Just don’t forget to use AutoNaming afterwards to update the version naming fields as well. You most likely also changed the Contents and Layout version located on the Ranges tab from 1 to 0. As you noticed, that can cause problems with applications that no longer support that version. I’ll add a warning about this in the user manual.

The only thing is that in Indesign it shows it nicely sorted in the fontname list and in illustrator and photoshop it places it completly on the bottom of the list.

Maybe that’s because your font starts with a lowercase character…

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I’ve changed the first letter in to a uppercase and now it works like a dream. thanks!

Thanks for all this help. I’ve definitely discovered today that using a font and designing one are two completely different things :wink:.