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    When looking for an appropriate font, we are comfortable of browsing a font to select what is suitable for such typography. My problem is...whenever I browse for fonts after just a matter of 13 fonts, I get stuck and can't move to browse further. And for instance I was browsing for fonts which starts from letter A, it then quickly jumps at the bottom after the Z's fonts (the last fonts which appear after the lines of font list).



    My OS is Windows 7, I use Adobe Illustrator CS5. My other Adobe softwares InDesign & Photoshop has no problem about this.

    Thanks in advance.
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  • #2
    It means you have a bad font. Pay attention to what font trips you up - delete it, reload a fresh non-corrupt copy and you should be all good. Be careful tho - I had this issue a while back and thought it was just one font - but apparently i'd had about 30 fonts go corrupt from my harddrive - was a PAIN! lol

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    • #3
      Ok thanks. But how can I determine that the font is corrupted? Could it be the next font where I was stuck? Does it mean that the fonts was corrupted upon downloading or upon installing?
      Last edited by Merzee; 08-02-2012, 12:24 AM.

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      • #4
        Ok I deleted the fonts next to where I was stuck in Registry Editor because it cannot be deleted in the Control Panel.

        The only problem is I can't determine what was the problem when I was browsing for fonts started from letter A (for instance) then it jumps at the bottom fonts after the letter Z's font. Would it be...again...the last next font before it jumps? (As my screenshot above)

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        • #5
          Usually it was the font i was going to go to next (assuming you're using arrow keys to get around in the font drop down) that's the corrupt one. Although honestly - if you've got one corrupt font - it might be worthwhile to do a scan and check to see if any others are corrupt. Any good font manager program will let you do this.

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          • #6
            Ok thanks so much Jen. I already did that and I deleted the 45 corrupted fonts (most of them are dingbats). Browsing is hazzle-free now!

            In my PC with Win XP OS 32-bit those fonts are usable. But in this new Windows 7 OS of 64-bit it is not readable. Well I guess it only means that these fonts are not intended and not usable for 64-bit Windows 7.

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            • #7
              Actually...I found out...just now that those fonts are not actually corrupted. It just happened that those fonts has no equivalent character of what I'm browsing. For instance I typed an alphanumeric character which has no equivalent to a wild character font, it has nothing to display so it just stuck and unable to move. That's why it's most of those error fonts are dingbats.

              And...that it is not supported by 64-bit Win 7 OS?

              What do you think guys?

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              • #8
                Hmm strange. Hadn't run across that one before.

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                • #9
                  Yap, me too. I've been using AI for years and this is the first time it happened. To think that when I thought I've deleted all error fonts there still many times I got stuck...difficulty of browsing.

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                  • #10
                    I finally know now that those fonts are not corrupted. It has just no equivalent of what I typed so it stops browsing. I found the setting in the type preference, Missing Glyph Protection must be disabled to get rid of this error. Here...



                    It's the final solution
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                    • #11
                      I have this problem constantly, myself. And I discovered precisely what you did: incompatible characters. Even simple ones. I have a lot of crappy fonts that I need to clear out, so whenever I have any kind of punctuation in the text, it makes for rough browsing.

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                      • #12
                        What font handling software are you using?

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by kemingMatters View Post
                          What font handling software are you using?
                          As for me, I guess none as far as I know. But the concept sounds immensely helpful and promising.

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                          • #14
                            The solution is to disable the "Missing Glyph Protection" in the Type Preference. It was default as enable in AI CS5 version. But in other lower version I'm not sure but I did not encounter this before...maybe it's disabled already by default in CS4 and lower.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Merzee View Post
                              The solution is to disable the "Missing Glyph Protection" in the Type Preference. It was default as enable in AI CS5 version. But in other lower version I'm not sure but I did not encounter this before...maybe it's disabled already by default in CS4 and lower.
                              Oh, groovy. I'm glad you were more persistent than I was in finding a solution.

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