Font Preview CS3

Hi All,
My font preview in Illustrator CS3 does not work. I have checked under preferences>type to be sure font preview is checked and it is, but it still does not work.
Any ideas?

Does anyone else see this as asinine? Sorry to say it to you windows folks, but font preview has been available in the type menu, font face drop down (when type tool is selected), AND the character pallet in the Mac version since like Illustrator 8.
I just took a new job where I'm having to use Illustrator on Windows and it's simply infuriating. I've got CS3 right now and optimistically downloaded the CS4 trial in hopes that Adobe would finally bring a decent font preview to Illustrator for Windows. Nope. Wtf guys? Is it really that hard?
Oh and what's with the weird scrolling behavior in the character pallet in Windows? If I attempt scrolling through the list of fonts there, the list does this weird animation scrolly thing where I feel like I'm going to have a seizure and when it stops I don't know where I'm at in the list.
The Type -> Font menu is no better - at least on my windows machine, I can't use the scroll wheel on my mouse to move up and down in that menu, I have to find the tiny arrow at the top or bottom of the screen and click that. Man this sucks. I feel like I'm easily 30% slower on the PC version than I am on the Mac simply because of 1) the extra effort it takes to preview fonts 2) I can't scroll side-to-side like I could on my mac without ctrl-scrolling my mouse's wheel and 3) the time it takes to curse Adobe each time I want to do either #1 or #2.
Ugh. I give up. Any chance someone could write a plugin that would fix all this for us? Call it a Make-Illustrator-Work-Right plugin for me. Thanks.
Matt

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2. The ability to save your fonts within illustrator in sets
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What has changed on your computer since it last worked?
Does the text have any layer style effects?
This could be a situation where Photoshop CS3 is falling out of date with functionality of modern video drivers, though more often it is something that's been installed or configured.
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I've hunted for an answer, but I just can't find one anywhere. I am running windows 7 with illustrator CS4. The font preview does not work (I have font preview checked in the type preferences). How can I fix this? It is a major pain to have to open up photoshop to browse through fonts because illustrator doesn't have a preview.
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Try this. Highlight the text you want to change. With the text highlighted place your cursor in the character window, double click so that it starts blinking without the font name being highlighted in blue. Then hit the up or down arrow key to go through your fonts. The text you highlighted originally should dynamically change as each new font is selected. I used this all the time in CS3 on a pc for me. However I just moved to a mac and upgraded to CS5 and can't get it to work yet. Good luck.

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Hi,
I own a Macbook Pro with retina display. When I last updated it I experienced problems in Photoshop CC with the color wheel spinning often for no apparent reason. I had never had this happen so I saw in the troubleshoot Photoshop article in Adobe help to set the preview size to none. Why do I have to suddenly disable parts of Photoshop on such a capable machine as this? I am glad the color wheel stopped spinning but I'm not glad that I have to find a way around having no font previews in Photoshop CC.
This is something I think should be fixed.
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@Noel
I did those steps and step 4 and 5. They tested good. I think step 6 did the trick but not immediately. I could not do step 7 for some reason. I did not stop to figure it all out. I just kept going to step 8. This is where I began to see Photoshop become much more responsive. I moved all fonts that start with the letter A from ~/Library/Fonts to my Desktop and now Photoshop is faster than I've seen in a while. No spinning color wheel, yet. Now I have to find out which ones of those A fonts are bad by replacing them one at a time.
Thanks for pointing me back to that article. I guess I just got upset.
Sincerly,
Harold Williams

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EDIT: I did select "Large" from the TYPE menu (thought it was in Preferences), but this or "None" or the options did not change things.
Windows 7
On my Laptop, I can scroll through my font menu and see the text change.
Not so on my Desktop. There, I can click in the font name box and use the up and down arrows to do this.
Trying to find why the difference, I found this online:
FROM: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/fonts.html#previewing_fonts
Photoshop Help / Fonts
Updated for Photoshop CC Version 2014
Previewing fonts
You can view samples of a font in the font family and font style menus in the Character panel and other areas in the application from where you can choose fonts.
To turn off the preview feature or change the point size of font names, do one of the following:
(CC, CS6) Choose Type > Font Preview Size, and choose an option.
The problem: on my Desktop version of Photoshop CC, there is no Preference option as stated above.
I prefer seeing the menu scroll and to point and click, rather than having to use the up and down arrows to move through the font list sequentially.
How can I fix this?
Thank you.
Message was edited by: Robert Mcclintock

Ah! Good question.
I had assumed I had the same version on each computer because I always keep both up-to-date.
Also, with the new CC, I no longer knew where to find the version number. Now I know :-)
Here's what I have:
DESKTOP:
Adobe Photoshop Version: 14.2.1 (14.2.1 20140207.r.570 2014/02/07:23:00:00) x64
Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit
LAPTOP:
Adobe Photoshop Version: 2014.1.0 20140730.r.148 2014/07/30:23:59:59 x64
Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit
I am going to guess that is what makes the difference.
Even if so, I prefer being able to see the font menu list, rather than using the up/down arrows.
Looking forward to your feedback/response.
Thanks!
Bob

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