My font is not available in Illustrator...

I am attempting to use a font that is available to me in Indesign CS5 and is installed on my computer (a PC), however the font is not available in Illustrator CS5. I have attempted installing the font in the Adobe Common File, but that did not help. I don't understand why a font would be available on my computer in general, but not in Illustrator. Any thoughts?

May be Illustrator doesn't like it. Yes, I'm not kidding, Illustrator is programmed to be quite picky accepting fonts in its menu - the fonts must be top quality.
Another thing is to make sure the font is in the Fonts folder in your system and not in some place available to inDesign only like a program's fonts location or if you are using a font manager.

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Below are various screenshots
1. Screenshot from InDesign
2. Screenshot from Font Book to show the fonts are active
3. Screenshot from Illustrator CC 2014 showing these fonts are available there.

I quite InDesign. Then I did a search and trashed all the AdobeFntXX.lst files that had a two digit number. I deleted the files and rebooted my computer. I then launched InDesign and had the same problem.
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Very strange... since everything is okay in Illustrator, Photoshop and even an older version of InDesign CS6.

CrashReporter complains that "LastResort" font is not available

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I've not removed anything myself. I'm concerned about this - how can I fix it?
Thanks.
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Download and manually install the 10.6.5 COMBO update. If that doesn't fix it, reinstall the OS, which only replaces all the OS components and basic Apple apps, leaving everything else in place. If that fixes it, run Software Update, get back to 10.6.5, repair permissions, and restart.

Fonts are not available

There are at least 10 people on this forum asking the same
question, with hardly any helpful responses.
I am missing Trade Gothic among others. It is not available
in the Flash font drop-down. It's there in Illustrator, PS,
etc...It's an Opentype font.
The frustrating thing is my boss uses has it installed on his
computer (same file) and it works on his computer (same set-up,
Linotype Font-Explorer etc..).
Seriously, what is wrong with Flash? I've uninstalled,
reinstalled, restarted, repaired disk permissions etc...
So annoying!!!!!!!

install those fonts on your PC.

AI CS6 OSX - font loaded, not available in AI

So I've got a font family loaded (via Universal Type Server, not that it seems to matter) that is completely available in all applications but CS.
It looks like the font is possibly poorly named and AI is collapsing all 4 members of the family into a single menu entry.
Is there an easy fix for this?

It’s a ttf file – Frutiger. I’ve managed to get it into InDesign, but not Photoshop or Illustrator. Always seem to have problems with this font!
Van: Mike M <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
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Datum: dinsdag 3 december 2013 17:03
Aan: Lesley Chambers <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Onderwerp: Font not available in Photoshop CS6 or Illustrator CS6 (Mac)
Re: Font not available in Photoshop CS6 or Illustrator CS6 (Mac)
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Why am I told that fonts are not available when the file was originally created in Fireworks?

I get the "Fonts not available" message when I open up a document, i.e. open up a png document in the program/computer/etc. where the program was created in the first place.
I don't get this. How can the fonts not be available when I'm using the same program that used these fonts originally? Having said that, the appearance doesn't seem to change.

Are the fonts in question installed on your computer?
Fonts are not part of a program, fonts are installed on a system. Once installed, a font is available to any program that uses fonts. If you're opening a document that was made in the same program, but on a different system, using fonts you do not have installed, then you will get that message.
So... Are you opening a document that you created? Are you opening the document on the same system on which the document was created? Have you made any changes to the installed fonts (installed or uninstalled any fonts)?
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One or more Fonts are not available

I have seen this problem on this and other forums in the past
but I have never seen a response that made sense or lead to a fix:
I created a flash file a few months ago. It uses a font called
"microgramma". I now want to make some changes to it and I get this
message:
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etc...
The font is a truType font, works fine in every other
application on my machine, but now for some reason, Flash doesn't
see it. This is not the first time this has happened to me. It
would be great if Adobe would address this.
Flash CS3 on a MAC ppc with OSX 10.4.11

You should be able to get this to work. (btw - mac guy :) Is
the Font listed in the Flash 'Library' panel, or are you refering
to the main Font menu, and embedding? I'm uncertain, and perhaps
I'm mistaken.
You can create a Font 'file' the resides in the FLA Library.
Have you tried using the small icon in the upper right corner of
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SL 10.6.1 and FontExplorer 1.2.3: ll fonts are "Not available"

After worked fine for weeks, my Mac Pro 2008 quad 2.8 Ghz with 6 Gb ram does not recognize my fonts anymore, just the default system. I can't add neither opentype or truetype or post script. I've cleaned font cache, preferences, sets, reinstalled FontExplorer without luck.
Again, if I install fonts (not in FontExplorer but in Finder) I can see the preview but they are not available in all softwares.
Any idea about the cause?

Hi antonio-milano & welcome to the forums:
I've cleaned font cache, preferences, sets, reinstalled FontExplorer without luck.
Have you used Apple's FontBook to validate the suspect fonts?

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I have several fonts that Font Book shows as installed that are not available to any of my applications, including Word and Quark Express. These fonts include Arial Bold, Arial Bold Italic, and Arial Italic, all of which I believe were installed as part of OS 10.4, along with several other fonts in the Arial family that are available to my applications. How can I get all my installed fonts to be available to my applications?
John Link

HI John,
Try deleting the FontBook pref file: com.apple.fontbook.plist
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Validating fonts
If fonts are not displayed as expected when you open documents or you cannot open documents, it's possible fonts have been corrupted. You can validate fonts to confirm they are still safe to use, and remove any corrupted fonts you find.
Take care not to remove system fonts, located in /System/Library/Fonts; removing system fonts could cause some applications to quit unexpectedly.
To validate fonts:
Open Font Book and select one or more installed fonts to check.
Choose File > Validate Font.
In the Font Validation window, review the fonts listed for warnings or errors. Use the pop-up menu to display warnings and errors separately, if necessary.
For fonts with warnings or errors, click the disclosure triangle next to the font to see which validation rules show errors.
To remove a corrupted font, click the checkbox next to the font. Make sure fonts you want to keep are not checked. Then click the Remove Checked button.
You can also use the Console utility to troubleshoot problems with installed fonts. In the console.log window, type "font" or a font name (such as "Arial") in the Filter field to find font-related log messages.
You can validate font files before installing the fonts. To do so, in Font Book choose File > Validate Files. Browse to and select a font file to validate and click Open. Font Book displays the Font Validation window and indicates whether it found problems with the font.
Carolyn

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Brenda

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Some Font styles not available on solaris

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I am developing a Java application on windows with the plan of running it on solaris eventually. It is starting without error on windows but, when I ftp it to solaris and start the program from an xterm I get the following error which is repeated a number of times:
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I don't have a good answer other than the typewriter functionality was for basic typing, not for fancy topography work. For the latter, you should go back to the original document and do it with a tool designed for that purpose.

I updated my Mac to Yosemite, now fonts I had previously downloaded are not available in Illustrator. How do I fix this?

I just updated my software to Yosemite, and now I cannot access the fonts I need in Illustrator, although they are still in my font library. The problem is just with fonts I've downloaded. How can i fix this?

emmmoose,
Did you reinstall after updating to Yosemite? That is normally recommended. Otherwise, strange things may happen, or fail to happen.

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Thanks for any advice!

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Typekit fonts do not sync to Illustrator CC 2014?

Why I can not sync typekit fonts to Illustrator CC 2014?

I'm sorry that you are having trouble syncing fonts from Typekit, Susanna. Please try these troubleshooting steps to start:
http://help.typekit.com/customer/portal/articles/1649149
If that don't solve the problem, send the Creative Cloud log files from your computer to [email protected] and we will look into it further. There are instructions on where to find the logs on OS X and Windows in the troubleshooting page.
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-- liz

Some fonts are not working in Illustrator

Hello!
I am having trouble with a font I wont to use in illustrator. I have already installed it in the system and it comes up in Flash but it doesn´t appear in illustrator or Photoshop. Can anybody help me? Thank you for your help in advance.

>It shows in Explorer with an Open Type icon even though it's a True Type font (mtcorsva.ttf) from 1998.
A couple of pertinent Wikipedia entries:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueType
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenType
Bottom line: Many Microsoft/Monotype fonts introduced after 1994 were sold/listed as TrueType fonts but, in fact, used 'TrueType Open' technology. Those will show up as OpenType fonts in the newest Windows operating systems.
Install
Microsoft's Font Properties extension
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