Certain fonts now available in Flash CS4

Some of my fonts, namely Trebuchet and the entire Swiss family do not show up as options in Flash.
I've also noticed this happens with Dreamweaver CS4 as well.
I do admit I moved all of my fonts to mostly one location so I'm wondering if I violated some ridiculous Adobe requirement.
Does anyone know where Adobe expect the fonts to be?
I'm on two Mac Pro's, one has Snow Leopard.
I moved all of my fonts to the user/Library/Fonts folder except for the system fonts.
Is there a preferred place to store fonts for Adobe apps?

i think flash uses your system fonts. if you change fonts available to your system, you change the fonts available to flash.

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What are the names of those fonts?
Clearing the system font cache might fix the problem.
Quit all applications, open Terminal application (available in /Applications/Utilities), then type
atsutil databases -removeUser
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Hi Eric,
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Fodderstompf wrote:
> Thanks guys,
>
> I don't have Flash MX and it turns out the font is a
Postscript Type 1.
>
> Didn't realise about the true-type thing, bit of
nusiance (and completely the
> opposite of the hassle I normally have with print
work!).
>
> I'm gonna look and see I can get a true-type version of
the font (Tabitha), or
> is there any other work around?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
Is your text in a dynamic text box, or static text box in
flash?
I don't think the issue concerns the "true-type" or not
"true-type" font.
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to the dynamic text box, via actionScript.
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MX or Flash8, and if indeed we're
talking about a dynamic text box, your only option is to use
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jdehaan <[email protected]> wrote:
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