I just moved to Windows 7 64bit and got MainType 3.0 as a replacement for Adobe Type Manager Light. I have a couple of PostScript Type 1 Fonts I want to continue using on my new system. I tried the demo version of MainType on my XP system and it worked fine back then.
However, on Windows 7 the PostScript Type 1 Fonts I install with MainType don’t show in any Adobe Product (CS3) except in Flash. The fonts don’t show up in my Windows Font folder either. They seem to be installed anyway. They work perfectly in Flash. They work in Wordpad - the preview doesn’t work but I can write with them. Also, installing the fonts manually triggers a “do you want to overwrite” message box.
To be fair, installing them manually doesn’t make them appear in the Adobe Products either. But I tried that only after I installed MainType and found out it doesn’t work. The problem seems to be limited ONLY to PostScript Type 1 fonts. Other fonts work fine.
I’m quite confused by all this. I don’t know if the problem is with my fonts, Windows 7, MainType or the Adobe Products.
As with the .fon fonts, PostScript Type 1 Fonts are being phased out.
I guess someone is going to have to convert them to .ttf or .otf or they will weather back into the earth.
I found out that they do work. They are simply not being FOUND by the programs. So when I create a document from scratch, the fonts don’t appear in the list. However, when I load an old document that uses the files, the font magically appear.
It sound reasonable. The Type 1 Fonts don’t appear in the Windows Fonts folder after all. Is there any way to fix this?
By the way, I’m getting weird issues in MainType with some of the fonts now. I’m getting “Similar font installed” status on some of the fonts. I tried unistalling and re-installing them using MainType but they are still “Similar font installed”.
That is what it should say when you installed those fonts from a different location. MainType 1, 2 and 3 mark a font as “Similar font installed” if a font with the same font family name, font style and font type, but different file(s) or different file location(s) is already installed. It can be another version of the font, or a font with the same name but from another vendor, or even just a copy of the same font file(s).
