I have about 1,000 fonts installed in my Vista install (I had the same number

in XP previously). About 1/3rd are TT, 1/3 OT and 1/3 Adobe Type 1.

 

I have all 1000 fonts installed in my font file. They all show up in

Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark and similar programs. But they don't all show

up in MS Word. I was using Word XP (2003) and had this problem and then today

I upgraded to Word 2007 and the same thing is happening in the newer version.

 

It appears to be the Type 1 fonts that aren't showing up -- but not every

Type 1 font is missing.

 

As an example: I have the font Univers installed. It's an Adobe Type 1 font.

I've triple checked and know that it is installed (its in the font folder and

works in other programs). However it is not on the font list in Word. I can

even type "Univers" in manually into the font box in Word and it will apply

the font. But its not on my font list.

 

What's going on with this and how can I fix this?

Creativepart wrote:

> I have about 1,000 fonts installed in my Vista install (I had the same number

> in XP previously). About 1/3rd are TT, 1/3 OT and 1/3 Adobe Type 1.

>

> I have all 1000 fonts installed in my font file. They all show up in

> Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark and similar programs. But they don't all show

> up in MS Word. I was using Word XP (2003) and had this problem and then today

> I upgraded to Word 2007 and the same thing is happening in the newer version.

>

> It appears to be the Type 1 fonts that aren't showing up -- but not every

> Type 1 font is missing.

>

> As an example: I have the font Univers installed. It's an Adobe Type 1 font.

> I've triple checked and know that it is installed (its in the font folder and

> works in other programs). However it is not on the font list in Word. I can

> even type "Univers" in manually into the font box in Word and it will apply

> the font. But its not on my font list.

>

> What's going on with this and how can I fix this?

 

You might get someone here who knows the answer (not me, sorry) but you

have a better chance of getting an answer if you post in one of the Word

newsgroups. Here's a list of all the MS newsgroups:

 

http://aumha.org/nntp.htm

 

 

Malke

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Malke wrote:

> Creativepart wrote:

>

>> I have about 1,000 fonts installed in my Vista install (I had the same

>> number in XP previously). About 1/3rd are TT, 1/3 OT and 1/3 Adobe

>> Type 1.

>>

>> I have all 1000 fonts installed in my font file. They all show up in

>> Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark and similar programs. But they don't all

>> show up in MS Word. I was using Word XP (2003) and had this problem

>> and then today I upgraded to Word 2007 and the same thing is happening

>> in the newer version.

>>

>> It appears to be the Type 1 fonts that aren't showing up -- but not

>> every Type 1 font is missing.

>>

>> As an example: I have the font Univers installed. It's an Adobe Type 1

>> font. I've triple checked and know that it is installed (its in the

>> font folder and works in other programs). However it is not on the

>> font list in Word. I can even type "Univers" in manually into the font

>> box in Word and it will apply the font. But its not on my font list.

>>

>> What's going on with this and how can I fix this?

>

>

> You might get someone here who knows the answer (not me, sorry) but you

> have a better chance of getting an answer if you post in one of the Word

> newsgroups. Here's a list of all the MS newsgroups:

>

> http://aumha.org/nntp.htm

>

>

> Malke

 

I believe type 1 "master' fonts are the problem. You might try

installing adobes font manager. Don't know if that will solve your problem.

Be informed though that adobe is dropping support for type 1's.

Frank

Several Adobe applications handle their own font management and rendering,

instead of using the built-in font facilities of the Operating System. So,

it is not too surprising you see fonts in Photoshop and Illustrator, which

do not appear in Word. These apps look after fonts themselves whereas Word

largely relies on the underlying Windows OS to handle fonts.

 

As to why some Type 1 fonts are listed in Word and some aren't ... that

part, I dunno. I would recommend asking in a Word-oriented forum, such as

microsoft.public.word.printingfonts. For what it's worth, I have several

Type 1 fonts installed on my main desktop PC and they all appear and work

normally under Vista (ie, Vista has no objection to Type 1 fonts in general

terms).

 

You might want to run WordPad (Start, Accessories, WordPad) and see if the

fonts are listed, there. WordPad uses a simpler mechanism for listing

available fonts. This would help determine whether the problem was more in

the general OS-level font-handling or something specific to Word (which I

think still does some of its own funky stuff with the font list, based on

current default printer driver etc).

 

Doubtless you're already sick and tired of the "Type 1 fonts are dead"

conversation, but ... you know Type 1 fonts are (almost) dead, right? They

cannot be displayed in any application built on WPF from Microsoft's .NET

3.0 Framework (which is not many apps, yet certainly not Office, which will

remain pure Win32 for the foreseeable future).

 

Hope this helps a bit,

 

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Andrew McLaren

amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au