Fonts not nested in Flash Menu

Hi,
CS3 flash professional 9.0 (...created 18th Dec 2007)
This is similar to the days of suitcase and Quark, but OSX i
thought these problems were gone. Im using fontbook and every
application works fine, all my fonts are nested in their folders in
the font menu, but in flash they are all loose, and its hard work,
has anyone got this problem or overcome it?
ta

This has come up a lot on here. I thought they might have fixed it in CS4. At least they fixed the problem where fonts would not appear in the list if you activated (using a font management app) while Flash was open. Used to have to restart Flash.
In any case, Flash does treat fonts differently than other Adobe applications. I'm sure someone will jump on here and defend Flash but the truth is in the pudding. Loaded fonts do not always appear in Flash when they show up fine in the other apps.
I hope Adobe gets it together in CS5. Still waiting for them to fix the issue with font baselines shifting in FLA's between Mac and PC.
Best thing you can do is post a request:
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform&product=15&6213=9

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> An associate suggested that sometimes Flash doesn't like
the names to be
> non-standard; in other words, it doesn't like "Heavy",
but prefers "Bold", etc.
> This seems to support the fonts not being displayed in
the Flash font menu, as
> they are AvenirLTStd-Heavy.otf,
AvenirLTStd-HeavyOblique.otf,
> AvenirLTStd-LightOblique.otf and
AvenirLTStd-Oblique.otf. The only two being
> displayed in the font menu are AvenirLTStd-Roman.otf and
AvenirLTStd-Light.otf
> ("Roman" and "Light" are pretty traditional names).
> I've tried renaming the fonts to "Bold" and "italic",
etc., but Windows still
> sees the original names. I've tried opening the fonts in
Notepad and changing
> all references (for example, all "Heavy" to "bold"), but
saving the font file
> (even if I add and remove a space) makes it unreadable
as a font (security
> issues, I think).
> One reason I think it's a naming issue, is I did try
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> and installed it, and Flash saw it as Roman, but it had
the Heavy
> characteristic. This work-around doesn't work, however,
as I need Roman, too
> (and renaming it Roman2 doesn't work).
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