Postscript fonts in Windows 7

Have just migrated CS3 to a Windows 7 PC.
All of the post script fonts are unavailable in the CS3 programs - only truetype and open fonts show up.
All of the fonts, TT, OT and PS show up in other applications. Any ideas?
Thank you.

Known issue. Place in the private Adobe fonts folder.
Bob

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Although we at Adobe certainly do recommend use of OpenType font technology going forward and especially for new publishing projects for any number of very good reasons, Adobe does continue to fully support Type 1 fonts (FWIW, TrueType and OpenType fonts are every bit as much PostScript fonts as Type 1 or Type 3 fonts are) in all our applications as well as in our Adobe PostScript and Adobe PDF Print Engine products and has committed to do so for the indefinite future.
In fact, Adobe still does license and ship Type 1 fonts in fairly high quantities. Every printer sold with Adobe PostScript 3 by Adobe's OEM partners such as Xerox, Ricoh, Canon, Océ, EFI, etc. is accompanied with host software that includes the Windows and Macintosh host versions of all the Type 1 fonts that are also printer resident.
Actually, the problem that the OP of this thread was experiencing is that apparently, the Adobe Type Basics was built without the .pfm files that normally were shipped with all Adobe type packages for Windows. When ATM was required for installation of those fonts, since ATM had the capability of building .pfm files on-the-fly, this omission wasn't noticed at the time by most users (even I wasn't aware of it until today). Otherwise, there was nothing wrong with those fonts and there was nothing about them that was “showing their age.”
Unfortunately, the Adobe Type Basics OpenType Edition is not a superset of the fonts in the original Adobe Type Basics product. Many of the font families of the original product were replaced by totally different font families. Updating to the OpenType-based product would not have solved the OP's problem without possibly needing to license a whole bunch of additional font families individually, possibly costing more than the $99 for the Adobe Type Basics OpenType Edition itself. For existing content (including templates and artwork), it is not simple to move from Type 1 to OpenType without going through existing content and globally changing all font references. The OpenType versions of Adobe's font do not have the same names as the Type 1 versions - this was not an oversight, but done for good reason since there are differences between the products in encoding and metrics that could in some cases cause layout issues.
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Hello TSN,
Test Screen Name wrote:
Picking just one point: PDF -> EPS -> PDF. This could not possibly do more than one page, because EPS is absolutely by definition a single page format. Therefore you must choose a page when exporting PDF to EPS.
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I was thinking Microsoft... which has allowed multi-page eps files for years. But you're correct, this is normally an unsupported .eps format.
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I have quite a few postscript fonts installed on my Windows XP Professional 64-bit computer, but none of my adobe programs are showing them as available. I tried using my old Type manager deluxe, but it won't let me install it on a 64-bit system. I used the windows font installer to install the fonts. How do I get my creative suite to recognize the fonts?

Seems to be a known issue with 64 bit systems. I've seen it myself with
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FIXED mine,
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2. Use the font.
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Hi costask,
Thanks for posting in MSDN forum.
I downloaded a sample using RemoveFontResourceEx at here:
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/42041/How-to-Use-a-Font-Without-Installing-it#addres
Then I download a .otf font file and use it in above sample. On my side, windows 8.1, I can delete the .otf file after I close the sample application. So please show us some code and details.
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Hi,
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"Segoe UI Italic (TrueType)"=""
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[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes]
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This is supposed to be a better program than Win 8.
Did someone from Microsoft Marketing tell you that? Maybe a fanboy? :)
In all seriousness it's not better in any obvious way than Win 8, nor is it really any better than Win 7. It can be tweaked to be just about as good. And to be fair, it's stable.
I mean yes, we all expected Win 8.1 to be better than its predecessors
- software releases are supposed to give you some value, some good reason to upgrade - but that kind of goes away when the software maker feels they have a captive audience as Microsoft does, and especially when they still have plenty of businesses
buying Win 7, which pays their bills.
But like it or not, removed choices or not, apparently Windows 8 is here to stay. Joshua up above says "You fail", but have they really? Once you're patching it up to make it usable they've already got your license fee, and your
alternatives to running Windows are what, exactly?
-Noel
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