No Font Preview in AE in the 2K era?

It's the 2000's and there's no font preview in the Character Panel's drop down of font names in AE?
I would have considered this a default feature for an app in 1995. For it to be missing some 20 years later...
Or have I overlooked something?

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Font previews not appearing correctly in the character window after upgrading to Yosemite

Hi,
I’m having an issue with Illustrator CS5 since I upgraded to Yosemite. When I go to the character window to select fonts they are not displaying the names correctly or to put it a better way they’re not showing at all!
When I scroll up and down the list only the highlighted (where the cursor is positioned) font name and preview will show up as expected, oh and a few random font names. (please see attached image, although strangely the highlighted area is showing blank on this screen grab)
I had to update the Java in order to get this version of illustrator working on Yosemite, could there be a connection to that?
Thanks in advance.

Adgatez,
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 may also depend on the monitor, as it appears from post #29 by Loncar in the same thread.

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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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This is a problem i have across most of my cs6 applications in particular Illustrator but also in photoshop and indesign.
It started after i upgraded my mac to OS X Yosemite from Mountain Lion, i had read else where about it being an issue in cs5 with the new transparency feature of Yosemite and that by checking reduce transparency in the accessibility options that the problem would be solved. This worked partially to correct the problem but there are still glitches with the drop down font preview menus. I have included some screen shots of how the menus look the first is from photoshop and the second from illustrator both after i have checked the reduced transparency option in system preferences.

Having the same problem and looking for fix...

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.
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Sincerly,
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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.
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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

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Is it possible to increase the size of the font preview?
There is no way to really see the subtle differences between
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I am currently looking into a font manager but increasing the
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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
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(You may need to arrange your image and the dialog box.) When I'm
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Joey's suggestion is to select the text, right-click on it
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select
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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.
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Try resetting the Character tool by making the Character panel visible then using the menu at the upper-right:
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If this isn't the right forum please let me know.
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Hunt

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Hi,
Just upgraded to CC on Windows 7 and noticed the font preview is now much smaller than in CS6. I have it set to size large in preferences, but I'm having a terrible time seeing them. Is there anyway to make the preview bigger? I set it to small and medium just to see and I have to wonder what the programmers were thinking when they set previews this small. Why can't they just give us an option to select what point size we want to preview the fonts at?

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