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Louda!!!
03-05-2009, 11:40 PM
I just cant seem to figure out how I install new fonts so I can use them in Illustrator (or any other program for that matter). I dont find anything about this in the helpmanual either. Hopefully one of you wonderful souls can help me out here?
garricks
03-05-2009, 11:43 PM
What OS?
What version of the Creative Suite?
Louda!!!
03-06-2009, 12:08 AM
MAc osx and the version is 4, its a trial version =)
garricks
03-06-2009, 12:43 AM
Are you using font management software? There are several, I prefer Linotype FontExplorer. They recently came out with a new, paid version, but you can download the free v. 1.2.3 version here (http://www.fontexplorerx.com/download/).
It's pretty self explanitory, works similar to iTunes. When you activate the fonts, they will be available to all the software on your system.
Hope that helps!
doctorfoz
03-06-2009, 01:10 AM
it may be nothing, but if you're going to use font management software, I seem to recall that Suitcase required some sort of Illustrator plugin (or vice versa).
as you were, people. Nothing to see here...
PrintDriver
03-06-2009, 01:19 AM
If you aren't using font management, there are two main places to stash fonts.
Generally you can use the
Users>(your comp name)>Library>Fonts
But do NOT use the font folder in System>Library
If you have a particularly ornery font (sometimes a truetype or Freeware POS) then you might have to put it directly in the Adobe font folder located here:
Users>(your comp name)>Library>Application support>Adobe>Fonts
Fonts placed in this folder aren't necessarily read by other non-Adobe programs you may be using.
Louda!!!
03-06-2009, 11:10 AM
Thank you so much!
I installed the fontexplorer and imported the new fonts to my "fontbook" and that was it, now I can use all of them from any program.
garricks
03-06-2009, 01:05 PM
Louda, make sure you keep PrintDriver's instructions, too. I have a couple of 'faces that ONLY work from Users>(your comp name)>Library>Application support>Adobe>Fonts
That's what happens when marketing managers with no type experience choose typefaces. :(
:Sigh: Remember when one of the great selling points for Macs was the ease in which fonts were managed.
Audentia
03-06-2009, 03:34 PM
oh... yes the font conflicts that have been created on the new OS (Leopard) drive me crazy! They just had to use Helvetica Neue didn't they. So annoying as it now errors out of my font manager everytime! (and of course it's one of our most commonly used fonts)
PrintDriver
03-06-2009, 05:48 PM
It was worse if you were running Classic along with OSX.
Audentia
03-06-2009, 06:00 PM
lucky for me... I convinced them to ditch classic entirely and just bought a quark 4.1 converter for our archive files. ;)
but yes PD I know... the classic fonts are brutal!
urstwile
03-07-2009, 05:18 AM
My biggest pet peeve with OSX (pretty much any flavor) is all the fonts that get installed with all the different programs...by default! There are freakin' fonts everywhere, and some of them have exactly the same name, but are a different format or version.
PrintDriver
03-07-2009, 02:26 PM
Yes. Frutiger anyone? I think I have projects going in 3 different versions at the moment, and all kern differently. Killer.
garricks
03-07-2009, 02:32 PM
Palatino. Four projects in two different versions. One project is a book with 21 chapters. Every time I open a different project I get a sea of pink. :(
PrintDriver
03-07-2009, 02:38 PM
Pink makes me see Red.
garricks
03-07-2009, 02:55 PM
^^ Well said, PD!
If I had more time I'd redo all of them. As it is I just have to get them to the printer in one piece. I can rework later. (They're annual pubs.)