New Photoshop Fonts not showing

Question

mark leroy kilwinning Hi im looking for little help and or advice, i recently upgraded to Adobe Photoshop CS5 but I appear to have lost all my downloaded fonts from the CS4 version of the software, when I had CS4 and wanted to add new fonts I just included them into my mico word and for some reason they popped into Photoshop also, I done this with several fonts I downloaded and used often in CS4,
I thought as they where in micro word then they would not be replaced when updating CS4 to CS5, but they do not appear, i have looked in the woord fonts and they are still avalible to use there, but dont appear in the list of fonts for CS5, is CS5 set up a little different, like to i need to copy the fonts over into a file that resides in CS5, any help would be most appreciated mark leroy kilwinning

Answer 1

Noel,
You are correct. PS, and all Adobe programs, rely on the "installed" fonts in the OS. Those will appear in the Windows (in this case) Fonts Folder. Now, one may have many other fonts, and they might be either manually installed, or done so dynamically, by a font management program.
Going way back, many Adobe programs did place fonts into folders, usually associated with Illustrator, Photoshop, or PageMaker, BUT though those fonts were stored in the sub-folder (called directories then), they were also installed into the system.
I believe that many Adobe programs do include some OT fonts, with the programs, probably in a Goodies folder on the installation discs, but it is still the same - to be used, they need to be installed into the system, and the easiest way to do that, if one does not use a font management program, is to use Install Fonts from the system's Control Panel.
In my case, I have about 19,000 fonts, purchased over the years (a few freebies, but only a few special ones). I have those stored in C:\Fonts and then in PS Fonts, OT Fonts and TT Fonts sub-folders. Only a very few of those are actually installed on the system at bootup (about 350), but then I manage mine with Extensis Suitcase, so can dynamically install, or uninstall fonts, as they are needed with what that program calls Font Sets, and I have those by client, by use (such as Headlines, or Video Fonts), or even by Project.
If the OP has lost fonts, it is likely that they were accidentally removed from the system.
I do not know the term "micro word," so cannot comment on that aspect.
Good luck to the OP,
Hunt