Re: CS3: Fonts missing even though installed in Windows\Fonts

> Interestingly, in all of the time that Adobe spent on trying to resolve this issue, they never tumbled to this...

Maybe that had something to do with your description of the problem. I don't know what you said to the Adobe techs, but in your first post here, you said you were seeing an Adobe OT font (Adobe Caslon), and later (post 12) you said you were seeing two Adobe Caslon fonts. If you'd said you weren't seeing any non-TT fonts at all, then maybe you would have got an answer sooner.

> As even the helpful experts that supported me here did not immediately find the solution for my problem

Well, when you posted, Peter did start by saying he presumed he'd read the whole thread and none of that advice helped. But if you look right back at post no 2, Dinosnake had the answer to your problem.

As for editing your fonts, even if this is not a licence violation, I would strongly suggest you not do it. You're opening yourself up to unwanted subsititutions and problems with different fonts with the same name. Anyone who uses those files after you may find the text reflowing because they think you used FuturaLT when you actually used a renamed FuturaBT (metrics and glyphs will vary between foundries).

Re some versions of Caslon available: Yes, because there was an older version of Caslon (from CS or CS2?) that had TT outlines which I had installed in Windows\Fonts myself, and it showed up. But the newer OTF fonts that CS3 installed in Windows\Fonts seem to have PS outlines, and they DIDN'T show up.

Part of the problem is terminology. I don't consider Adobe's OTF fonts to be "non-TrueType". OTF is supposed to be a superset of TT, no? I don't consider Adobe's OTF fonts to be "printer fonts", but I guess Windows XP does.

I guess you didn't read my explanation of the solution very closely. As far as Dino Snake's reply in #2, no, it didn't solve the problem. This is what he said:

"In the Windows / Fonts folder, select "Install New Fonts" and then surf to \windows\fonts. Select ALL the Caslon faces, make sure "Copy fonts to Fonts folder" is selected, then click "OK". When a warning dialog comes up, simply dismiss it."

I had done all of what Dino describes.

If you will re-read my message in which I describe the solution, you'll see it has nothing at all to do with INSTALLING the fonts.

It has to do with an de-selecting an option at Control Panel/Fonts/Tools/Folder Options/True Type Fonts, i.e. unchecking the box re only TTF fonts are available in programs. NOTHING TO DO WITH INSTALLING!!!

I don't have any problems with "anyone [else] who uses those files...". I am a home user, on a single home computer, no network, no other users. Nobody uses this machine but me.

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