Font Menu in CS5 AI

The font menu in Illustrator has gone haywire. Is there a fix for it?

Let me guess. You just updated your OS to 10.10 and can't read the fonts. Try going to System Preferences>Accessibility and click in the checkbox that says Reduce Transparency. You can also try using the Dark interface (which I personally hate).

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Illustrator/Photoshop CS5.5 crashes when I'm in the font menu

Hi there, I've seen another discussion about this, but unfortunately it didn't solve my problem. I'm running Yosemite and Illustrator CS5.5 (I've had some similar problems in PS too). When I go into the font menu in Illustrator, I'll start scrolling and it crashes. Sometimes I don't even get to scroll before it crashes. Admittedly I've downloaded a lot of fonts lately, so I thought it might be a corrupt font. Sure enough, I found a couple of bad ones, and some sketchy ones, and I removed them. Then I went and cleared my font caches using Onyx. Neither of these things seem to help. I know I'm not the only one who is having this problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

bexicon,
Did you try item 1) in 5) of the list? That implies moving all the fonts out, then see, then move half the fonts in again, or something similar, to find every substandard font that might hide somewhere.
The following is a general list of things you may try when the issue is not in a specific file (you may have tried/done some of them already); 1) and 2) are the easy ones for temporary strangenesses, and 3) and 4) are specifically aimed at possibly corrupt preferences); 5) is a list in itself, and 6) is the last resort.
If possible/applicable, you should save current artwork first, of course.
1) Close down Illy and open again;
2) Restart the computer (you may do that up to at least 5 times);
3) Close down Illy and press Ctrl+Alt+Shift/Cmd+Option+Shift during startup (easy but irreversible);
4) Move the folder (follow the link with that name) with Illy closed (more tedious but also more thorough and reversible);
5) Look through and try out the relevant among the Other options (follow the link with that name, Item 7) is a list of usual suspects among other applications that may disturb and confuse Illy, Item 15) applies to CC, CS6, and maybe CS5);
Even more seriously, you may:
6) Uninstall, run the Cleaner Tool (if you have CS3/CS4/CS5/CS6/CC), and reinstall.
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html

Illustrator CS5 crashes when scrolling through font menu.

Hello Adobe Community,
I am in desperate need of help with my Illustrator CS5 program. It has suddenly started to crash when I scroll through the Font menu from the Type menu at the top of the program. I am using a late 2013 Macbook Pro 13" with retina display on OSX 10.9.2. I am using Illustrator CS5 v15.0.0. I have read through scores of forum threads and tried every solution that was suggested and still cannot resolve this problem. I am stumped and my back is up against the wall. My work flow has now slowed to crawl since I have to now search through fonts using FontBook then manually type in the font I need in the font character field. I believe this problem is due to a corrupt font. The trouble started after I installed a new font. I have since deactivated and deleted that font but the problem persists. I am not a "tech head" so I don't know how to generate those long code pages that some can. I can make pretty pictures with Adobe products but I can't service those Adobe products.
Here is a list of things I have tried so far (at least what I remember):
*     I have deactivated and deleted the font I believed to be corrupt.
*     I have validated all my fonts with FontBook and deleted all corrupt files.
*     I have turned off the "enable missing glyph protecting" in the preferences.
*     I have used FontNuke to delete my font caches.
*     I have reset my Pram.
*     I have repaired all my permission with disk utility.
*     I have removed all fonts except for the standard system fonts.
*     I have uninstalled Illustrator and done a clean install (my system was migrated from a backup-however is has worked fine for months).
*     I have deleted my library/preferences/abobefnt.plst.
*     I have change the font preview to small.
*     I deleted all my fonts and restored them from time machine from before I had installed that last font I believed to be buggy.
*     I have prayed to Jebus.
So far none of this has worked. The closest I got was after deleting all the corrupt fonts with FontBook. It worked for a day. Then the next day started crashing again. I am completely lost at this point. I don't know what else to do.
Can anybody please help me figure this out?
BK
Update - I figured out how those crash reports are done so if anyone thinks they can help but needs to see a report please let me know and I will paste it into a reply.
Update 2 - I tried turning off the font preview all together and this seems to have stopped the crashes so far. I think the bug can be isolated to this function. Problem is I need that function.

Hello Adobe Community,
I am in desperate need of help with my Illustrator CS5 program. It has suddenly started to crash when I scroll through the Font menu from the Type menu at the top of the program. I am using a late 2013 Macbook Pro 13" with retina display on OSX 10.9.2. I am using Illustrator CS5 v15.0.0. I have read through scores of forum threads and tried every solution that was suggested and still cannot resolve this problem. I am stumped and my back is up against the wall. My work flow has now slowed to crawl since I have to now search through fonts using FontBook then manually type in the font I need in the font character field. I believe this problem is due to a corrupt font. The trouble started after I installed a new font. I have since deactivated and deleted that font but the problem persists. I am not a "tech head" so I don't know how to generate those long code pages that some can. I can make pretty pictures with Adobe products but I can't service those Adobe products.
Here is a list of things I have tried so far (at least what I remember):
*     I have deactivated and deleted the font I believed to be corrupt.
*     I have validated all my fonts with FontBook and deleted all corrupt files.
*     I have turned off the "enable missing glyph protecting" in the preferences.
*     I have used FontNuke to delete my font caches.
*     I have reset my Pram.
*     I have repaired all my permission with disk utility.
*     I have removed all fonts except for the standard system fonts.
*     I have uninstalled Illustrator and done a clean install (my system was migrated from a backup-however is has worked fine for months).
*     I have deleted my library/preferences/abobefnt.plst.
*     I have change the font preview to small.
*     I deleted all my fonts and restored them from time machine from before I had installed that last font I believed to be buggy.
*     I have prayed to Jebus.
So far none of this has worked. The closest I got was after deleting all the corrupt fonts with FontBook. It worked for a day. Then the next day started crashing again. I am completely lost at this point. I don't know what else to do.
Can anybody please help me figure this out?
BK
Update - I figured out how those crash reports are done so if anyone thinks they can help but needs to see a report please let me know and I will paste it into a reply.
Update 2 - I tried turning off the font preview all together and this seems to have stopped the crashes so far. I think the bug can be isolated to this function. Problem is I need that function.

Illustrator CS5 is crashing every time I open the Font Menu

I'm using one of the new Mac Book pro Retinas. Every time I open the Type>Font menu the program crashes. Sometimes I can scroll down a little ways but sometimes it crashes immediately. Photoshop is loading the previews fine so I believe this is an illustrator problem and not a more general font problem.
Thank you for your help.

Ok, so I am now leaning towards a corrupt font also like Wade Z. suggested. A few things to try if you haven't first though.
1.) Did you repair permissions using Disk Utility in the Applications > Utilities folder? I'd do that and run it a few times until it runs "clean". Meaning that you don't see it repair anything anymore in the list. (I'm assuming you're on a Mac). If you're on a PC this won't help.
2.) You could try resetting the PRAM etc., but I don't think that will help this problem. Sometimes you never know though.
So, if it is a corrupt font, I need to know if you are using a font management program or if you manually place them in font folders? (again assuming you're using a Mac). Post Script Type 1 fonts are known to be more finicky to use in Snow Leopard and Lion. I had some problems with duplicate fonts that were causing havoc on my machine just a few weeks ago. So you may want to try and track down if you have duplicate fonts also. I just used Spotlight to find where any errant fonts were installed. If you install fonts manually I'd temporarily remove them all from the User > Library > fonts folder (or wherever else you may have installed them) and then restart. That way you can test to see if that might be the problem. Then if it is you can add half the fonts back in and do a bubble sort to find which font is corrupt. A bubble sort is a way of taking half of something and testing if it's good or bad. Then if it's a bad half, taking half again to see if it's good or bad. That way you can narrow in on a specific file causing the problem. It can be a little tedious with having to restart, but is one of the best ways of finding a corrupt font. Another method may be to remove all of one type of font and add each set in until the problem shows up again (if removing them is what fixes it).
If you use the built in FontBook you can try this: http://www.lifespy.com/2007/mac-tips-find-and-eliminate-corrupt-fonts-in-osx/
Hopefully you'll get it worked out.

Font Title Not Displaying in Character Panel Font Menu

Just updated to OS X Yosemite and noticed that the font titles don't display in the Character Panel > Font Menu. However, they do display when rolled over with the cursor. This is only happening in Illustrator. All other Adobe apps are correctly displaying font titles. Anyone else having this problem?
Using Adobe Illustrator CS5.1 / Mac OS X Yosemite

fonts, björn, scott,
Unless three step reinstallation helps, you may wish to roll back from Yosemite and wait to see whether the issues will be solved and reported as such.
Weeding out in older plugins seems to have helped some in some cases. It also seems that JAVA Runtime may be involved, for some it seems to help to roll back to an ealier version, for others to update to the newest.
All the above is more or less hearsay so far, with no definite final confirmation.
In any case, there is something to be sorted out by someone.

I do I make all fonts from Windows/Fonts available to CS5 ?

It used to be that I very rarely used fonts within CS5 but recently I have. I realized that all of the fonts supposedly included with CS5 are not available via my drop down menu.
I then found these fonts in Windows/fonts so I copied all of those fonts into Program Files/Common Files/Adobe/Fonts. These unavailble fonts are now listed in that folder but are still not available via the dropdown menu in PS CS5.
I've recently read that the fonts don't really even NEED to be in the Program Files/Common Files/Adobe/Fonts folder and that PS should actually make all of the fonts in Windows/Fonts available via the dropdown menu. Yes, I have restarted PS after copying the files and also tried rebooting my PC after copying the files. The fonts are still not available via the drop down text menu within PS even though all of them are now in both locations.
Can anyone help me with this problem? Thanks!

Sometimes the font names are shown with slightly different names in windows, depending on the program.
For example, in photoshop cs5 if you scroll the font list almost to the bottom, do you see a font named Kozuka Gothic Pr6N
I believe that is the same as the KozGoPr6N font(s) listed in the windows font folder.
The different font styles (Bold, Heavy, Light etc.) are listed under the font styles drop-down just to the right of the font list in the tool options bar.
I believe the font menu in photoshop cs5 sorts/shows the fonts by script.
This script might make it easier to indentify the fonts as shown in photoshop with the names shown in the windows fonts folder.
Show Font Name.jsx
http://regex.info/blog/2007-09-26/583

Why can't I get open type features to work properly with an open type font on InDesign CS5.5?

I installed a very complete set of styles of an opentype font with Font Book – Mac OS X 10.9.4 – but when I tried to format a sample text on InDesign CS5.5 I noticed that I could not use the opentype features on the Open Type menu as I usually do.
Could anyone help me, please?

It's ffScala Sans, but has separate files for small caps, figures, etc.
I was trying to use small caps, lining figures and superscripts when I
noticed none of the OT features are available.
2014-07-30 21:56 GMT+01:00 Miguel Sousa <[email protected]>:
Why can't I get open type features to work properly with an open type
font on InDesign CS5.5? created by Miguel Sousa
<https://forums.adobe.com/people/MiguelSousa> in Adobe Type - View the
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Illustrator crashing every time I open drop down FONT menu

Every time I open my drop down font menu in illustrator it crashes immediately. It is doing this without fail every single time. As long as I don't go into Fonts, it does not crash. But I need to change my font!!!

Apetherbrigde,
It sounds like a corrupt font or corrupt font caches, see items 1) and 11) under 5) in the list.
The following is a general list of things you may try when the issue is not in a specific file (you may have tried/done some of them already); 1) and 2) are the easy ones for temporary strangenesses, and 3) and 4) are specifically aimed at possibly corrupt preferences); 5) is a list in itself, and 6) is the last resort.
1) Close down Illy and open again;
2) Restart the computer (you may do that up to 3 times);
3) Close down Illy and press Ctrl+Alt+Shift/Cmd+Option+Shift during startup (easy but irreversible);
4) Move the folder (follow the link with that name) with Illy closed (more tedious but also more thorough and reversible);
5) Look through and try out the relevant among the Other options (follow the link with that name, Item 7) is a list of usual suspects among other applications that may disturb and confuse Illy, Item 15) applies to CC, CS6, and maybe CS5);
Even more seriously, you may:
6) Uninstall, run the Cleaner Tool (if you have CS3/CS4/CS5/CS6/CC), and reinstall.
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html

Post script font is not being displayed in font menu

Im tying to use a system font (post script) for my website, but its not shown in the font menu in muse. (but it is in every other app on my mac).
installed the latest release and bug fix on os x 10.9.4
any ideas? thanks!

Muse (just like any browser) doesn’t support Postscript fonts.

Some fonts have wrong "internal names," won't display properly in font menu

Several fonts which I have acquired over the years have a peculiar but bothersome problem.
The fonts' "file names" in the Finder are perfectly fine, and the files are named what they're supposed to be named. And when the fonts are "installed," they work perfectly fine in all applications, as they are supposed to. But here's the problem: the fonts are mis-named in each application's "font menu." In my case, most of the font names (which are of the standard English alphabet and have standard English font titles) instead appear listed as a long string of Chinese characters.
As a random example, a font called "Holiday Ranch" made by FontDiner is not listed alphabetically between "Hoefler" and "Impact" in my font menus, where it ought to be, but instead is listed at the end of the font menu list, after "Zapfino," as a long string of Chinese characters. This wouldn't be such a problem if there were only one or two fonts misnamed this way, but when (as I do) you have 25 fonts at the bottom of your font list, all of which are long strings of incomprehensible characters, then it becomes a problem indeed.
The fonts come from a variety of sources, so it can't be a flaw in just one company's coding. I contacted (as per the example above) FontDiner, but so far they have no response. But for other mis-named fonts in my collection, I don't even know who designed them or where they came from, so I can't ask the designer for a solution.
Keep in mind that all of the fonts work perfectly fine, once I've tracked them down in the big morass of hard-to-find misnamed fonts at the bottom of my font menus. They work in all Apple applications like TextEdit, they work in Adobe products like Illustrator, they work in MSWord -- they work everywhere. The only issue is the naming.
Also, the file names are all correct. In the example above, the file name for "Holiday Ranch" is "Holiday Ranch.ttf". And when I inspect the font with Linotype's "FontExplorer X," it is listed properly as "Holiday Ranch." But here's the key: When I open the font file in Apple's "Font Book" (v.2.2.1), the name is indeed listed there as a long string of Chinese characters, and when I install it onto my computer using Font Book, it unfortunately uses that name.
I've tried downloading a wide variety of "font tool" programs, but none have been able to fix this problem.
I also tried (using FontExplorer X) "Cleaning system font caches" and "Cleaning application font caches" and restarting, but that had no effect whatsoever. I don't think it's an error on the part of OSX, I think that the fonts are simply misnamed internally, or that something went awry when the font designer converted the fonts from one format to another, or something like that.
I think the simplest solution would be to just re-name the fonts internally. But how? I can't find a way to do it. Even the optimistically-named freeware program "Font Renamer" did not change the internal names.
Has anyone else ever experienced this problem, and if so, how can it be fixed? Thanks.

As for free downloads to play with: unfortunately, the FontDiner ones are all commercial and thus not free...
They do have some free fonts. At the bottom of the first page (after the lead in page), click the "Free Silverware" link at the bottom. The fonts that come up on that page are all free.
I downloaded four of those fonts at random. All work as expected. That doesn't prove though that the Holiday Ranch font doesn't have something wrong with it.
Kurt, as I noted above, I already did empty all font cache files and restart. Unfortunately, that did not fix the problem.
Oops! Sorry, missed that.
So I think the problem is not that there's anything wrong with my OS, but rather that the person who made the font simply goofed when giving it a name!
It seems to point that way, but you're seeing the issue across fonts from different vendors. I would believe it's either the OS, or Font Book itself.
Your tagline shows you're running 10.6.4. Download and reinstall the 10.6.4 Combo updater. It's surprising how many problems go away when applying the combos.

Why don't some of my .ttf fonts appear in the font menu?

Hello,
I have a number of .ttf fonts installed on my system (located in Win7/Windows/Fonts folder) which do not appear in Flash or other Adobe applications such as InDesign. I did try putting them in the Fonts folder of these programs instead of the default Windows location but that didn't work! The fonts are available in the font menu in Microsoft Word 2010. The fonts all have a dot before the file name, see below. So could that be the problem? I am using some of them to type Vietnamese characters. Can anyone help?

That did it, thanks. Now they still don't.fully load but they do have links at the bottom to get the rest of the message.

Customize format toolbar AND font menu

The "customize toolbar" options are many fewer than all the commands I use. I'd like to add other format commands, such as highlighting text (aka character background fill), to either the text format toolbar or the main toolbar.
Secondly, can I alter the font menu so that it (1) shows fewer fonts, or (2) shows frequently-used fonts at the top, or (3) displays font names in their own typeface?
Thanks very much.

PinocchioComplex wrote:
The "customize toolbar" options are many fewer than all the commands I use. I'd like to add other format commands, such as highlighting text (aka character background fill), to either the text format toolbar or the main toolbar.
Feature unavailable.
Highlighting text is already available in the format bar (white rectangle with a lowercase a).
Secondly, can I alter the font menu so that it (1) shows fewer fonts, or (2) shows frequently-used fonts at the top, or (3) displays font names in their own typeface?
1 = no
2 already available in the Font panel: Fonts > Collections > Favorites
3 already available in the Font Panel: Fonts > Collections > Recently Used and/or Favorites
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Please fix the Illustrator Font menu(s)

I can't find any real discussion on this subject anywhere, so hopefully it's not an over-repeated gripe, but why has Adobe through many iterations of Illustrator CS not migrated the Photoshop and InDesign font menu systems to Illustrator? As a creative designer who uses Illustrator as much as any other CS program, I find the font menu in Illustrator to be unbelievably user-unfriendly. Having either a Type > Fonts menu which you can't scroll through at will (no scroll bar, just slow buttons), or having a Character pane font list with no font previewing in it (I use Windows 7) doesn't make any sense. Unless there's some Illustrator menu preference table somewhere where I can set these options, it's time to fix this chronicly repeated design flaw that persists through every version of the software... please.

why has Adobe through many iterations of Illustrator CS not migrated the Photoshop and InDesign font menu systems to Illustrator?
Code is code and different host APIs require different code. And especially an old hag like AI is going to require a lot of work to adapt even the tiniest bit of resonably contemporary code because the program is so hopelessly behind the curve in too many areas. It sucks, but it's just this way and in light of it's more serious deficiencies like the extremely bad memory handling, this kind of thing is probably one of the lesser inconveniences/ annoyances...
Mylenium

Can't change the font directly in the FONT MENU.

Recently I noticed a strange problem (?) When using my ADOBE INDESIGN CC 2014.2 When I try to use the fonts, I can only see a message asking me to connect with typekit .
But, even after connecting it to my adobe account, I can't access my local fonts. The only way to access my fonts is goint in the menu TEXT > Fonts (as seen below).
From there I can access all the fonts normally.
The program is updated and I have no idea how to solve it.
Can you please help me to solve this issue? Thanks a lot everyone!

Hi Isis,
I'm sorry that you ran into trouble with this. It looks like you have the Typekit filter turned on in the font menu, so it is only showing those fonts you have synced from Typekit. Since you haven't synced any, the list is blank.
To turn off the filter, click the grey T at the top of the menu.
Once the Typekit filter is turned off, you should see all of your installed fonts listed again.
Please give that a try, and let me know if you have any other questions. Best,
-- liz

Font menu hangs

HELP!! I think there might be a problem with the font menu utility running on mail. When I go to change the size or typeface ...anything that requires the use of the font menu, everything grinds almost to a halt and the ball keeps spinning. Sometimes it actually does what I want it to do and sometimes it doesn't ...after an exasperatingly long wait.
Is the application corrupted? I'm using font reserve.
Thanks.
Sarah
1.33 PowerPC G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

This message occurs whenever your installed fonts change. I work for a publisher so was getting it all the time as I turned fonts on and off for different projects.
In Office 2004, do this:
1. Go to */Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Office/Support Files/*
2. Rename or move FontCacheTool. (Requires administrator access)
In Office 2011, do this:
1. Go to *~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office 2011/*
2. Delete *Office Font Cache*
3. From Terminal, type touch" then drag in the Office 2011 folder
4. Back in the Finder, do Get Info on the new, empty *Office Font Cache* file. Make it read only and lock it.
Notes:
1. WYSIWYG menus will now just show the font name in standard font.
2. You may be able to disable the 'optimising' message more easily by going to Word's preferences and turning off the 'WYSIWYG font and style menus' tick box in the General section. This takes affect in all Office applications but doesn't seem as reliable at preventing the caching problem.
4. Newly added fonts should still appear when you next start an Office application.
3. However you have Office set up, it can't see certain fonts. They are the ones logged to Console, e.g.:
12/04/2011 09:58:14 /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/ATS.framewo rk/Support/fontd[21782] ATS Font family could not be created for Abaton ITC Std - Legacy Applications may not see this font

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