CS3: Fonts missing even though installed in Windows\Fonts

Question

Fonts are "missing" when opening a CS2 Indesign document in InDesign CS3.
For example, a document uses Adobe Caslon Pro Bold. Under InD CS2, this font was located in Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Fonts. That directory is now empty (except for some additional fonts that weren't part of CS2). I guess uninstalling CS2 cleaned out this directory.
When opening the document in CS3, I get a message about a missing font. The only available Caslon face is "Regular".
There are 5 Adobe Caslon faces installed in Windows\Fonts (regular, bold, italic, bold italic, semibold, semibold italic). But CS3 doesn't recognize anything but "regular".
I had made backup copies of all Adobe fonts that I had installed with CS2, so I copied those backups to Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Fonts. Now InD CS3 finds them.
Has anyone else had this problem? What is the solution? I have re-installed CS3 but this doesn't fix it.

Answer 1

First up, ATM. ATM4.0 (Light or Deluxe) is not supported under W2K or XP and should be uninstalled. After that, the 4.1.2 patch should be run, which just edits the registry, since removing ATM leaves Windows unable to install Type 1 fonts. Uninstalling ATM4.1 on any Windows platform prior to Vista (which it's not supported under) causes PFM files to be left unassociated with the system font applet preview page. The patch fixes that too. These are the only problems with having ATM on XP and they're usually easily fixed.
My first step would be to remove ATM because you're running an unsupported version.
> I did not try the current "light ATM" release because the release text on the Adobe site did not suggest the necessity to upgrade.
Well, that version of ATM will not state anywhere that it supports XP (given that it predates XP), so the prudent course would be not to install unsupported software until you're sure it will do no harm. And entering the terms "ATM" and "XP" into Adobe's search engine quickly turns up advice not to install any version prior to 4.1.
> Is there any reason one should only use OT fonts in ID?
If you're working cross-platform (as you are), then OT is definitely the preferred option, but ID can utilise Type 1 and TrueType fonts with no problems.
I have most of the BT Futura fonts you listed, though I only have the T1 versions to hand, though I could dig out the TT ones and might. But there are a couple I'm not clear on from your list: BT (do you mean you have BT Regular or Roman and BT Book installed and accessible in FrameMaker?); Medium/Extra Bold Cond (is this medium condensed and extra bold condensed, because you have also listed MdCn BT?); TMed (what's the full name of this?).
Apart from those three, all the fonts showed up in ID, once I had deactivated the TT versions that came with Windows. Most were listed as variants under Futura BT, including the roman of LtCn BT and MdCn BT. The last two fonts showed up as separate entries in the font list, but only the itals variant, as you saw.
There is a bug in ID that leaves it sometimes unable to distinguish between regular and book weights, but the issue here seems to me to be one of strange style links in the BT fonts, not anything to do with ID.
To summarise, remove ATM, check you don't have the Windows TT versions active, and then check all the variant drop-down menus. Then report back here.