Font Preview CS5

Can someone walk me through the steps to enable Font Preview in Fireworks CS5? I recently went from Fireworks MX to CS5 so I am a behind the times. Thank you in advance for your help.
Regards, Paul

Built into Illustrator you can preview fonts, but only by their font name.
Extensis suitcase is a plug in that allows preview fonts in custom text of your choice.

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My Font Preview not working in AI CS5

I'm new to Illustrator so maybe I'm missing something but my font preview won't work in the Character panel (ctrl + t.) I have checked my preferences and the option to show the font preview is checked. I can see a preview of the fonts if I go to the menu and select Type/ Font but that is the only place the preview shows up.
I am working on a Windows 7 Pro system.
Is there something I can try to get this feature working? Thanks in advance.

I don't believe your answer is correct. Windows can show font previews in all menus and panels because Photoshop CS5 does this already. So if Photoshop can do it, why can't Illustrator do it too?
I'll keep looking for a fix...
(Running Windows 7 Pro 64-bit)
- Glenn

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or some other way around this?

FANTASTICO! Ho perso ore e ore per capire cosa fossi successo...invece, era una cosa semplice...Grazie! Agli maici italiani che hanno aggiornato il loro mac a OS 11 e riscontrono problemmi in illustrator cs 5.1, cioè non vedono i fonti, questa tua risposta è un solievo illustrator CS5.1 Font Preview fails with OS X Yosemite upgrade

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I have a similar problem - just downloaded Yosemite (10.10.2) and I already had Illustrator CS5 and the rest of the creative suite installed. Illustrator crashes every time I scroll through the font preview in the character menu.
One solution (not ideal) in to go into Illustrator>>Preferences>>Type>>and uncheck font preview.
Others have suggested clearing the font cache or deleting (possibly corrupt) downloaded fonts. Check out this link:
Illustrator CS5 crashes when I open fonts menu - Graphic Design Stack Exchange
I tried some of these. Cleared my cache using fontnuke. No avail.

Photoshop CS5 crashes when font preview on

If this isn't the right forum please let me know.
I have had this issue ever since I purchased photoshop over a year ago and never have found a solution. I have followed the suggestions that I have found given to others but nothing helps. Once I have turned on font preview the only way I can get Photoshop to open and stay open is to manually delete the preferences. The font test script claims that I have no defective fonts. I have twon computers bothe running 64bit windows 7 pro. one with 12G memory 2TB disk space, quad core 2.5gHz processor with only 350G occupying the HD, and I have a laptop with only 4G memory, 222Gb HD (half full), and a 2gHz single core processor. Photoshop only has issues with font preview on the more powerful machine.
Now when I run the font test script it says I have 1600 fonts on my system, but I only show about half that in my font folder. Is photoshop reading fonts from elsewhere than c:\windows\fonts

Photoshop will only see fonts that are installed in your system.
Fonts do not have to be corrupt to cause errors and problems. Some are just poorly written, and Photoshp cannot deal with them. Some are generally OK, but due to their writing, Photosho cannot display them. Photoshop is very sensitive to fonts, unlike many programs, such as a wordprocessor. This article, while written for Titler in Premiere Pro/Premiere Elements, has some tips that apply to PS, as well: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/479026?tstart=0
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Character palette not showing type preview – CS5.5 (Mac)

Hello, I had a problem that appeared literally out of nowhere with Illustrator CS5.5 on the Mac – I've been running 10.9.5 without issue until now when the contextual menu that usually shows a preview of the fonts available stopped showing all but two or three previews (attached an image to show the issue). I tried re-installing Illustrator which didn't make any difference, I then tried going to Illustrator > Preferences > Type and in the options there turned "Font Preview" off. The list of fonts then re-appeared but disappeared when that options was turned back on. I then tried altering the Font Preview size to small and that finally brought back the proper font previews in the contextual menu. They were also present when the large option, however they will not appear with medium selected as the font preview size. I then closed Illustrator, and trashed the preferences by holding down Command, Shift, Option and Control when starting Illustrator backup. I'm not sure if anyone else has had this issue or similar, but hopefully it'll help what can be a frustrating glitch!

This is a problem on Mac OS. Go to System Preferences/Accessibility/Display and check the box that says Reduce Transparency.

Font Preview suddenly missing

Yes, my Font Previews are missing. I have it cheked/turned on in Preferences-Type, as Large. Trying an other size (like Medium, Extra Large) makes PS crash.
The only thing I can think of that caused it is that I added Fireworks and Illustrator (from the original CS5 Web/Design CD's). The Font Preview in Fireworks CS5 and InDesign CS4 do work, not in Illustrator CS5. All elements are updated. I'm working with Windows XP SP3.
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Edit:
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Font Preview

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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Hello everyone, I have Illustrator CS5 on a Mac and I just updated the OS to Yosemite 10.10.2 and since then I am experiencing problems to see the fonts preview on the Character panel. Instead of seeing the preview, the list is in blank, but if I put the cursor on the list I can see the preview but I want to fix this and I want to see the preview as always. I will appreciate your comments. Thanks!

Valeta,
I believe this may solve it:
Open System Preferences and go to Accessibility. Next, select Display from the source list along the left, then check the box labelled Reduce transparency.
It was first presented in this post #15 by TheUlser:
https://forums.adobe.com/message/6854594#6854594
It has been described on this Adobe page:
http://capitalmacservice.com/font-preview-working-illustrator-cs-5-yosemite-fix/
It may also depend on the monitor, as it appears from post #29 by Loncar in the same thread.
Obviously, this also influences some other things so there may be a downside to it, Obviously, the reduced transparency influences the appearance of other things, but so far no one has complained about drawbacks.

Illustrator CS4 and my drop down menu displaying different typefaces is no longer displaying font preview.

I am using Illustrator CS4 and my drop down menu displaying different typefaces is no longer showing all of them, just blank spaces where they would be...that is unless I put my cursor over it and I can then see the typeface. This is more of a nuisance than anything and didn't happen until I updates OS X to Yosemite. I currently am operating OS X Yosemetie 10.10.2
I have attached a screen shot. You can see that the font highlighted as the cursor is over it I can see the preview...but one I move the cursor it appears like all the others in the list and is blank.
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Solved using this previous users had the same issue; Font previews not appearing correctly in the character window after upgrading to Yosemite

Photoshop CC font preview had to be set to none after OSX 10.8.3 update.

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.
Sincerely,
Harold Williams

@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

Font preview -- Photoshop CC -- Windows 7

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

Larger Font Preview

Is it possible to increase the size of the font preview?
There is no way to really see the subtle differences between
fonts with such a small preview.
I am currently looking into a font manager but increasing the
size of the font preview in Fireworks eliminate that need for me.
Thank you for your help.

Select your text. On the menu, click on Text> Editor...
If you check the "Show font" and "Show size & color"
checkboxes, the preview will show you how your text will look as
you change fonts using the drop-down box in the dialog.
As you change the font, the text in your image will change.
(You may need to arrange your image and the dialog box.) When I'm
experimenting, sometimes I like to click in the font drop down box,
select the first font, and then press the down arrow key repeatedly
to see text in all my fonts.
Joey's suggestion is to select the text, right-click on it
,and select Editor... It brings up the same dialog. If you're on a
Mac, you may have to hold down a key (Option?) while you click to
get this context menu, I don't know how that works. But the menu
select
will work.

Larger font preview size

How do I change the font preview size in the drop down font preview list in Adobe inDesign cs6?

It's in the Type section of the prefs...

Text / Font Preview

This may have been mentioned before, but I wanted to get it out of my head before I forgot it.
Dream: A font preview system within illustrator.
1. Type in your sample text within a dialog and preview typed characters on all the fonts of your system.
2. The ability to save your fonts within illustrator in sets
These two features would save so much time scrolling thru font selections.
Robert Good.

I don't recall a setting that would cause that behavior, but does anyone really know all the many, many settings?
What operating system are you running?
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.
Some things to try:
Try resetting the Character tool by making the Character panel visible then using the menu at the upper-right:
Try resetting your Photoshop overall preferences to defaults (Ctrl - Shift - Alt immediately after starting Photoshop from its icon or menu item) just to be sure it's not a heretofore undiscovered setting or an invalid combination of settings.
Make sure you have the latest video drivers, or in some case a driver that's been rolled back to an older version (might be more applicable in this situation). Experimentation may be in order.
-Noel

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