I created a font using the program, and it does not show in the type-tool list of Photoshop 5. Does anyone know a good reason why? It contains no composite glyphs, and works with Word 97 fine.
If you have the latest version 4.5 it has a tool to automatically calculate Unicode ranges and supported codepages. If these are not correct it might cause fonts not to be shown, but I think this would affect all programs.
Format, Settings, Ranges, Unicode Character ranges, Calculate; Code pages, calculate. The first field should be greater than version 0.
I presume that you have tried restarting Photoshop. Not all programs update the installed fonts list dynamically.
Make sure you look through the complete list, especially after fonts that start with a capital letter when your font name starts with a lowercase letter.
The font name is similar enough to a couple of other fonts that I have installed, but it doesn’t appear with them in the list.
I did in fact, find my font! But it’s under a different name. This puzzles me. My font ist called ‘arcane’ and in the naming fields, that’s what it’s called. But Photoshop seems to want to call it ‘ori1Uni’ Which is the original name of the font. When I created ‘arcane’, I created a new font completely, and pasted glyphs from ‘ori1Uni’ to the new keymapping in the new font.
I had previously had the ‘ori1Uni’ font installed, but I uninstalled it. Is there some file somewhere that is mis-mapping the name of the font in photoshop? When photoshop compiles its list of fonts, it gives the incorrect label, though the font is correct.
Maybe the font related registry data or the font cache is corrupted.
Start FiFoFo and after it is finished restart Windows.
If this isn’t helping, try to name your font through the AutoNaming wizard.
Let us know your results.
Actually the font information in the Adobe font directory was corrupted. What I did was simply go to C:\program files\common files\adobe\TypeSpt and just delete Adobefnt.lst
That repaired everything !
Thanks for the feedback, your solution might be useful for other people as well.
Thank you for this thread and for the answer - I was having a terrible time getting my fonts to show up in Photoshop; this solved the problem.