Embedded Fonts Illustrator CS3

Hello All,
I have an illustrator file from a freelancer, who says the fonts are embedded. When I open the file, the "Find Font" menu comes up with the option to replace the fonts with fonts from the document or the system.
All the fonts have an asterisk by them. To replace the fonts I had to quit the "Find Font" menu and replace them from the regular font menu in Illustrator, some of which, I could not locate.
Am I doing something wrong or were all the fonts not embedded correctly.
Tom

Fonts are either .dfont (Apples own fonts), .otf (OpenType fonts), .ttf (true type fonts) or a file with .afm (which is kerning info for a particular font and not a font itself and is not a must be there file). The Postscript type 1 fonts do not have file extensions to their suitcase-files even if your Finder settings is set to show file extensions so I wouldn't add one. Which font file is what you can see in the Finder by sorting them as a list in Type order.
Other Adobe apps are a bit particular as to what is in the Adobe font database and AdobeFntXX.lst files.
You might want to use a tool-application that can clean up font caches to get it straight. Which one you use depends on which OS version you are running. Go to versiontracker.com and search for fontcache and you will get some alterantives. With InDesign that has to be done regularly if you keep activating and deactivating fonts or adding and deleting as the fontcache gets all screwed up after a while. ID then also gets problems of finding the font and insists it is not there even when it is. Font cache cleaning usually remedies that. I guess Illustrator needs the same treatment (I don't do much fonts in Illustrator, I use it for drawing primarily).

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