Arial Black Font

Our draftsmen when entering a measurement as a degree use the arial black font in autocad. When sending files to customers, etc, we create pdf documents. We have just started having a problem where Adobe Reader 8 and 9 says it cannot load the arial black front. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the font in windows. I have also reverted to the XP service pack 2 version of the font. None of this has helped. As a work around, we are using Nuance Pdf Reader until I can find a solution. It works perfectly with Nuance. Any other suggestions? I have searched the forums here and done google searches on this with no valid solutions.

Are you sure you are embedding th
e font when producing the PDF?
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I'm having a bit of a problem with the Arial Black font in InDesign CS2. I recently got a new computer running Windows XP. The computer has had MS Service Pack 3 installed. When I installed my old fonts onto the new computer and booted up InDesign, I noticed there was no Arial Black font, only Arial Black Italic. When I looked under the Arial group of fonts a Black version of the font was there, but on my old machine Arial Black is a separate font group. I've tried deleting the font cache and adding the fonts to the InDesign fonts folder as well, but it still doesn't register as a separate font family. I've also tried installing an older version of Arial Black (2.35 from 2004) and emptying the font cache but still no joy. The problem is I work on a newspaper and this font is quite common, and is used on our templates, so when I receive a page I need to change the font, which isn't ideal. Interestingly, the file name of the font is ariblk.ttf, but when you look at the icon it appears to be OpenType. The Arial Black Italic font is called ARBLI__.TTF and has a TrueType icon, and this appears as a separate font family in InDesign. Any help would be much appreciated.
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I'd give it a go anyway. And please keep in mind that CS2 is the earliest version eligible for upgrade pricing.
At some point, if the current policy holds, you'll be out of the upgrade loop and will have to pay full price.
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* [[/questions/797446]]
*[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644385 bug 644385] – Arial Narrow, Arial Black fonts do not show on page (comment 8)

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*[[/questions/795314]]
*http://people.mozilla.org/~jdaggett/tests/arialblackweights.html

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All bets with PM on Vista are null and void.
> "PM ceased development in 2002, almost 7 years ago. Any help, support or advice is now based on archives, but for PM to operate properly, you must have your version installed on a contemporary version of Windows."
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