Illustrator CS4 Fails to Display Font List In Yosomite

Illustrator CS4 Fails Display Font List In Yosomite, but displays Individual Font Family Names, I scroll down to about where I think it should be then check each font family till I find Correct one. As I am cutting back on work load in preparation for retirement, I have deleted my Font Manager rather than upgrading it to Yosomite and reverted to "Font Book".

Just discovered what appears to be the fix on another website. It was a fix for CF5 but it appears to work just fine for CS4 as we;
Open the Mac OS X System Preferences and head to ‘Accessibility.’ Once you are in there, select ‘Display’ from the left-hand list and then check the checkbox that says “Reduce transparency.”

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Illustrator CS4 no longer previews fonts in Character palette after Yosemite upgrade..Please Help

Illustrator CS4 no longer previews fonts in Character palette after Yosemite upgrade
Please help...Thanks

inkydmark,
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. Yosemite was made long after CS4, so it may be difficult.
There is a way round an even worse issue shown in post #2 here:
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1610655

Illustrator (CS4) fails to launch in OSX 10.8

How do i get Illustrator (CS4) to launch in OSX 10.8?

And what specifically? Did it ever work? What's the problem? Do you get warnings? You need to explain better and provide more details.
Mylenium

Illustrator CS4 no longer previews fonts in Character palette after Yosemite upgrade

Howdy. Recently upgraded to Yosemite. In my copy of Adobe CS4, fonts no longer preview in the dropdown menu of the Character palette, unless the mouse rolls over them. Very frustrating. Does this occur with any other version of Illustrator? Any way I can fix this?
Here's an image that shows you what I mean:

Tom, Lisbeth,
Bryan,
What ahppens if you 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 seems to work for CS5, see here:
Re: Compatibility with Yosemite — Illustrator CS5

10.5.2 Folders in Dock fail to display as list, hierarchically.

I saw it all over the Mac web that the 10.5.2 update fixed stacks so I could use my old hierarchical dock folders. So I set display as Folder, view content as List, but the output is the same as a right click. I just get the options menu again.
Update - I just figured it out: It's no longer click & hold that activates the hierarchical display. Just click & it works.
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The hatter wrote:
Now if only OS X updates would run that automatically on the first reboot after installing packages.
If it did, tens of thousands of users would freak out because of the length of time permissions repairs take. And since disk repairs can't be done on a mounted volume, the best it could do for this is with something like fsck. As its manual page notes, the corrective actions of fsck can result in data loss, so it should be used as a last resort. It also wouldn't help much if preexisting file system problems resulted in corruption of a critical system file during the installation.
Much of this is related to the "bootstrap" paradox -- an OS can't be used until it is loaded & initialized, which is impossible if its files are damaged enough to require repair before it will do so. The only practical way around this is with a ROM-based kernel, something no modern OS uses, or by booting from a known-good file source, such as OS installer DVD's.

Fontproblems and fontcaches in Illustrator CS4 and CS5

Hello all,
I've been having a serious and severe problem using Ilustrator and fonts.
As this is a very complex problem to explain, I'll try to make it easy to understand.
First I'll tell you the specifications and software used:
Imac 27 inch running MAC OS X 10.6.7 with follow software:
Illustrator CS4 + Illustrator CS5, both installed
Fontreserve (running a central server and macs connect through a MAC-client) http://www.extensis.com/en/support/font-reserve.jsp
So we use an external third party fontsoftware to manage and activate our fonts used in Illustrator.
We only have the required system fonts installed on our systems.
We recently ran in a big issue concerning fonts within Illustrator.
I'll try to explain what the problem really is ...
So normally we boot up Illustrator and we activate our fonts in fontreserve.
The fonts get loaded in Illustrator. So that does work like it should.
But the problem begins when we deactivate fonts.
Font reserve does deactivate them and in Illustrator the deactivated fonts are gone or so it seems ...
After a restart, I only start Illustrator. So our client fontreserve stays closed.
I opened the job I worked on before the restart and Illustrator opens the document and loads the fonts.
You read it right, Illustrator does find all the fonts which, before the restart, were deactivated.
Where does he gets those fonts?
So I started to investigate and tried a couple of things.
1) I physically moved the fontreserve-plugin out Illustrator so it will not be loaded on startup.
That didn't fix it because Illustrator still finds the fonts.
2) I physically plugged out the network cable to be sure Illustrator could not contact our fontserver.
Sadly he still did find the fonts.
3) I used "Tweak Freak" to clear my fontcaches. I also searched for "AdobeFnt" to clean out the cache from Adobe itself.
This did not work either.
4) I tried opening the document again but this time in CS5. And guess what? Illustrator CS5 asks for all the fonts that are missing, which is correct because not one font has been activated.
Strangly enough I decided to reopen Illustrator CS4 (Illustrator CS5 still beiing open as well), and suddenly Illustrator CS4 asks for the fonts too?
A minute ago he still found all the fonts and after opening Illustrator CS5, it does not ...
So Adobe what is the connection between Illustrator CS4 and CS5?
And where does Illustrator store its fontcache?
It would be nice to run a script on shutdown te delete all possible fontcaches.
So after spending a couple of hours fixing this problem, it seems that I still don't quite understand where the problem lies.
I'm hoping you can.
As this is an urgent matter, I hope to get an answer or support as soon as possible.
Thanks in advance.

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Switch to the Open Files and Ports tab, and it should list every open file that Illustrator is using.

Broken Illustrator CS4 "Open With" File Association

I want to open an SVG file, using Illustrator CS4. (I have the Design Premium Suite.) I cannot get it to open from Windows Explorer in CS4. Double-clicking the file opens it in CS3. Here's what I do and what happens:
1. Right-click on the SVG file in Windows Explorer.
2. Choose "Open With." A menu of programs pops up. Illustrator CS4 is not in the list, but CS3 is.
3. So I click on "Choose Program" to find CS4. The "Open With" window opens.
4. "Adobe Illustrator CS4" is not in the "Recommended Programs" list, but it is in the "Other Programs" list. However, I note that its listing has a generic icon, instead of the "Ai" CS4 icon.
5. I click on "Adobe Illustrator CS4" expecting the program to load. Instead, an error message pops up: "<filepath and filename.svg> is not a valid Win32 application."
So I started over:
1-4. Same as above.
5. Click on "Browse" to find the Illustrator.exe program file directly. I did this twice:
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     b. Then with the actual program at: "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CS4\Support Files\Contents\Windows\Illustrator.exe". This takes me back to the "Open With" window with "Adobe Illustrator CS3" highlighted.
What can I do to fix this?
Additional notes:
1. I was able to use "Open With" to specify several browsers to open the SVG file. So the problem seems to relate specifically to the links to Illustrator CS4, rather than any overall "Open With" functionality.
2. Right-clicking on an EPS file, and choosing "Open With," behaves exactly as right-clicking on an SVG file.
3. Right-clicking an AI file show two instances of "Adobe Illustrator CS3"-- one with a CS3 icon and one with a CS4 icon. Clicking on each entry opens the correct program for the icon, however.
How do I also fix this?
Mike
Message was edited by: Mike Wickham

First an update: I compared registry entries with the CS4 installation on my laptop. I saw that quite a few of the Adobe.Illustrator.<etc> keys were
missing, and many of the ones that were there had CS3 paths listed instead of CS4. So I uninstalled Illustrator CS4 and reinstalled it. That fixed some
problems. I also, in Windows Explorer, used Tools> Folder Options> File Types to change Illustrator CS4 to the default program to open AI, EPS, and
SVG files. I chose "Advanced" and "Edit" in the File Type dialog and noticed that some of the entries for open were missing the "Open" action. So I fixed that.
I've got the AI, EPS, and SVG files where I can open them with the correct programs now, but there are still some weirdities using right-click and Open With:
For AI files:
    There are two instances of Adobe Illustrator CS3 listed. One has a CS3 icon. The other has the CS4 icon. The AI file opens with the program
associated with the icon. If I choose Open With, then "Other Programs, there is a listing for Adobe Illustrator CS4, but it has a generic window icon and does not work. I get the "<path><filename>.ai is not a valid Win32 application" error.
For EPS files:
There are also two entries for Adobe Illustrator CS3, again one with a CS3 icon and one with a CS4 icon. Again they both open the program that matches the icon. There is also an Adobe Illustrator CS4 listed, but it has the shortcut icon for CS4 (the one with the arrow). It opens CS4. If I choose
Other Programs, the non-working, generic icon Adobe Illustrator CS4 is also listed.
For SVG files:
There are also two Adobe Illustrator CS3 listings, one with a CS3 icon and one with a CS4 icon. There is also an Adobe Illustrator CS4 listed, but with the shortcut version of the icon. They all open the program associated with the icon shown. If I choose Other Programs, the listings and icons under "Recommended Programs" are correct for both CS3 and CS4, plus there is a CS4 listing with the generic icon.
Is there any way to fix this stuff without uninstalling/reinstalling the whole Design Premium suite? While the reinstall of Illustrator CS4 did fix
some things, it also broke some. It reinstalled a bunch of ancillary programs, like ExtendScript that I didn't tell it to reinstall. I ran Adobe
update and now ExtendScript and and Adobe Drives service update fail to update. I ran the update from Acrobat. Looking in Illustrator, the update
button is grayed out and completely unavailable.
Mike

Illustrator CS4 error: Object label badly formatted?

has anyone received an error in illustrator CS4: Acrobat PDF File Format is having difficulties. Object label badly formatted? I am ON a mac and cannot open files after this error, help?

We now understand the problem, and are testing a solution. Here's my current understanding of all the elements of this issue.
CAUSE: The problem occurs in an interaction between Illustrator CS4, Suitcase Fusion 2 v13.2, and having an Illustrator document with one or more text boxes, containing text, which is *completely* off the artboard—not even the bounding box is touching the artboard. *Additionally*, there must also be at least one text box, with text in it, which is *on* the artboard (even so much as having the bounding box partly on the artboard is sufficient, again). When these conditions are met, saving the document *may* (but does not always) cause the problem.
PROBLEM: Attempting to open an affected document in Illustrator CS4 fails, with an "object label badly formatted" error. The problem can occur with older illustrator documents opened in CS4, as well as native CS4 documents.
UNAFFECTED: Despite any speculation in this thread, this problem does not affect Photoshop, nor has it occurred with any version of Extensis Suitcase older than Suitcase Fusion 2 v13.2, which shipped about eight days ago.
SOLUTION: The problem should be resolved by a 13.2.1 dot release. Although things could be delayed if we find something unexpected in testing, we currently expect to have the fix available this week, probably tomorrow (Thursday).
DOCUMENT RECOVERY: Extensis can fix any Illustrator CS4 document which exhibits this problem. For now, contact Extensis tech support if you need help with recovering any such Illustrator document. Be prepared to send tech support the affected Illustrator file(s). You can use the online contact form at http://www.extensis.com/en/support/contact_prod_support.jsp, or call tech support at 1-503-274-7030.
Special thanks to the users whose suffering and detailed reports helped us figure this out!
Regards,
T
Thomas Phinney
Sr Product Manager, Font Solutions
Extensis, a division of Celartem, Inc.

Files are not opening Illustrator CS4

Any EPS file one of our users Double clicks on in Explorer is trying to open in IndesignCS4 not IllustratorCS4, even if they use Open with : It's still not seeing IllustratorCS4.
They have recently removed IllustratorCS3 from their Vista machine, as it was only opening files in CS3 not the CS4 version.
Has anyone experienced this before?
Should I just re-install CS4 ( seems a bit of a hammer killing nut scenario )?
Thanks

I think your problem is that AI CS4 doesnt open the wanted filetype, and that it isnt listed in the
Open With applications list, am i correct?
If so, you can try this to add Illustrator CS4 to the Open With list:
-Rightclick the file you are trying to open
-Expand the Open With... option
-Click: Choose Default Program...
Then a window pops up, showing you several applications which windows thinks are suited for opening the file [EPS]
-Illustrator Should be in the Recommended Programs list, shown in the top of the window.
If it isnt, press the button to expand the Other Programs list, and see if you can find Illustrator.
If it still isnt there, you can add it manually:
-Press Browse... and browse to: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CS4\Support Files\Contents\Windows, select the Illustrator.exe file, and click Open.
Now Illustrator should be listed in the Other Programs list, and you can select it to open the file.
Make sure you check the "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file", so in the future Illustrator will always open the EPS files for you.
This should fix your problem.
If not, please let me know.

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.
HELP!

Solved using this previous users had the same issue; Font previews not appearing correctly in the character window after upgrading to Yosemite

Not all installed fonts are available in Illustrator CS4

Hi,
I've noticed that not all of my fonts are available in Illustrator CS4. My list appears as usual in the drop down menu, but many of my fonts have somehow become incomplete. For instance, only 3 weights of Helvetica are available, instead of the 20 or so I have installed on my Macbook Pro. I use Linotype Fontexplorer, and all of my fonts appear without problems in the browser window, but not in Illustrator.
I've deleted the Adobefontlist file with no result, and I've also tried uninstalling the fonts and reinstalling them with no result. I've had a few searches to see if anyone else has had the same problem, and some people have similar issues but not exactly the same. I've also tried some of the adobe troubleshooting steps with no result.
Any help with this would be gratefully received. Somebody must have experienced the same problem?
Many thanks
Jono

Thanks Jesseham, a good suggestion. All fonts within the families are ticked like you say, and I've just performed a clear out of the caches but still no success I'm afraid.
I've attached a picture of my font list in Illustrator in the hope that someone might see something that I'm not. As you can see from the list, Helvetica Neue LT Std is in the list as Helvetica Neue LT Std 85 Heavy and only has the option of 'Regular' under the font style drop down menu. It should be just Helvetica Neue LT Std in the font list drop down menu and have all of the available weights in the font style drop down menu.
Any thoughts?
Thanks
Jono

Change font in Illustrator cs4 js

I need to assign specific font to my text and it doesn't work. What am I doing wrong:
var my_OUTSIDE_TextFrame = myInstrLayer.textFrames.add();
my_OUTSIDE_TextFrame.geometricBounds = ["1.6 in", "1 in", "1.85 in", "2.75 in"];
my_OUTSIDE_TextFrame.contents = "OUTSIDE";
var myParagraph = my_OUTSIDE_TextFrame.paragraphs.item(0);
try{
myParagraph.appliedFont = app.fonts.item("Myriad Pro");
catch(e){}
try{
myParagraph.fontStyle = "Bold";
catch(e){}
myParagraph.pointSize = 30;
And it's not placing it where I want it either.
Thank you very much for your help.
Yulia

Hi yulia,
i maked some changes on your script:
- what is it item(0) instruction ??
use instead paragraphs[0]
- moreover you can use fontStyle.. it doesn't exist , it's textFont.stye but only for read, you can't assign "bold" or other style...
to put a differents style, you need to attribute when you call the font name "MyriadPro-Bold".
(** to obtain exact name you need, i have attritube first manually, and check his name with myParagraph.characterAttributes.textFont.name, to be sure avoid error name OR use my second script below**)
- you use paragraphs instruction, but i'm not sure that is really usefull, because you have created a text first and you can thus include your properties (font name and style) exept if you envisaged to change font before a paragraphs
- what is it pointSize ? doesn't exist also.. simply use size if you want change the size of textFont
For this remark, i recommande you to see this post
now, below an updated of your script
#target illustrator
var doc=app.activeDocument;
var myInstrLayer=doc.layers.add();
var my_OUTSIDE_TextFrame = myInstrLayer.textFrames.add();
my_OUTSIDE_TextFrame.geometricBounds = ["1.6 in", "1 in", "1.85 in", "2.75 in"];
my_OUTSIDE_TextFrame.contents = "OUTSIDE";
var myParagraph = my_OUTSIDE_TextFrame.paragraphs[0];
try{
myParagraph.characterAttributes.textFont=app.textFonts.getByName("MyriadPro-Bold");
catch(e){alert(e)}
myParagraph.characterAttributes.size = 30;
Also for 1$ more* i can propose you (for CS4) the same with drop down list below:
#target illustrator
var doc=app.activeDocument;
var myInstrLayer=doc.layers.add();
var my_OUTSIDE_TextFrame = myInstrLayer.textFrames.add();
my_OUTSIDE_TextFrame.geometricBounds = ["1.6 in", "1 in", "1.85 in", "2.75 in"];
my_OUTSIDE_TextFrame.contents = "OUTSIDE";
var myParagraph = my_OUTSIDE_TextFrame.paragraphs[0];
try{
var ressource="dialog { text: 'Font List'}";
var item=new Array();
var dlg=new Window(ressource);
var dd=dlg.add('dropdownlist',undefined);
for( j=app.textFonts.length-1;j>-1;j--){dd.add('item',app.textFonts[j].name); }
dlg.btnRND=dlg.add('button',undefined,'Choose this font.',{name:'ok'});
dlg.btnCANCEL=dlg.add('button',undefined,'Cancel',{name:'cancel'});
dlg.show();
for (k=dd.items.length-1;k>-1;k--){
if (dd.items[k].selected){myParagraph.characterAttributes.textFont=app.textFonts.getByName(dd.items[k])}
catch(e){alert(e)}
myParagraph.characterAttributes.size = 30;
See you, art.chrome
* this is a joke, i didn't ask for money !

Can I transfer the font list into Dreamweaver CS4?

Hi and thanks for reading,
I just installed Dreamweaver CS4 after depending on DW 8 for
the last few years. It's a fantastic upgrade. But I miss my old
font list. I spent a lot of time creating a great list of cascading
fonts for my style sheets in DW 8. Is there any way to grab that
list and import (if that's the right word) it into Dreamweaver CS4?
I'm referring to the list of installed fonts that DW displays
after typing the CSS font property.

> In Vista, does is customized version there or in
> %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Dreamweaver CS4\...
I think it can go either place. The former location is
vulnerable to a
reinstall, though, while the latter is not. I'm assuming
that's what you
are asking....
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>> There is an XML file that contains this information
too, you know?
>>
>> Program Files/Adobe/Dreamweaver
>> CS4/Configuration/Fonts/fontStrings.xml
>>
>> (on PC, of course)
>>
>> I don't know if this is also available in DW8.
>
>
> Must be new with CS4. That was the first place I looked
for CS3, but
> now that I have my (Macromedia) DW8 box running, I don't
see the
> folder there, either.
>
> In Vista, does is customized version there or in
> %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Dreamweaver CS4\...
>
>
>
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MBP Retina Display Font Crash Illustrator CS5

just purchased a new mac book pro with retina display. Everytime I open my illustrator and try to scroll through the font list it crashes. This is a brand new install and a brand new computer - I haven't installed any fonts or brought any files over from my desktop mac - so font should not be an issue. Is Adobe working on a fix? will this issue happen still if I upgrade to 6? I'm not willing to spend the monthly fee unless it will be a guarantee fix.
Thanks.

Take it back and get a refund. What are you waiting for, your new Mac does not work correctly.

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