Adobe Fonts in Vista?

[Don B.]

I have several Adobe Postscript fonts I purchased a few years ago. They were
easily installled in Windows XP; but I can't find a way to install them with
Windows Vista. When I click on Add New Font and direct the program to the
drive with the CD containing the fonts, thee Add New Font window say no
fonts are found on that drive. The fonts on that CD are recognized by
Windows XP.

 

[Jerry]

You can try this, copy the fonts and paste them into Windows Fonts Folder.
This is NOT the official way, but it has always worked for me.

 

[Joe Morris]

I have several Adobe Postscript fonts I purchased a few years ago. They
were easily installled in Windows XP; but I can't find a way to install
them with Windows Vista. When I click on Add New Font and direct the
program to the drive with the CD containing the fonts, thee Add New Font
window say no fonts are found on that drive. The fonts on that CD are
recognized by Windows XP.

PostScript fonts, unlike TrueType ones, aren't conveniently packaged in a
single file. A standard commercial PS font from Adobe provides the outline
in a .PFB file and the metrics etc in a .PFB file. I've had no problems
installing such PostScript fonts under Vista; just click "Install New
Font..." on the FILE menu of the FONTS control panel and point the search
box to the folder containing the .PFM files (in all kits I've seen, the PFM
folder is at the same folder level as the .PFB files). Example, in folder
"035" on my font storage disk I have:

035 (folder)
+----cr______.inf
CR______.PFB
info.txt
pfm (folder)
+----CR______.PFM

Pointing the "Install New Font..." dialog to the PFM file causes the Carta
font to be installed under Vista -- which is quickly verified using Wordpad.
(For the curious: info.txt is a readme file; "035" is the Adobe package
number.)

However...some fonts come not with a PFM file but with an AFM file. I have
no problems under XP with such fonts (via Adobe Type Manager) but they don't
seem to be acceptable to Vista.

A couple of months ago I ran across a reference -- which I can't put my
fingers on at this instant -- explicitly stating that Vista supports PS
fonts only if they have a .PFM file attached to them.

Do your fonts come with .PFM or .AFM files?

Joe Morris

 

[Joe Morris]

I have a similar problem. I recently purchased a laptop with Vista.
After I installed my Adobe InDesign CS to it, I found out several Adobe
fonts, including MyriadPro don't work in it.

The problem, it seems, is not with the font file itself, since I've
copypasted them several times to the font folder, but the fact that
regular and bold, for example, seems to be missing from MyriadPro. In
other words, there are no separate files for regular etc. The InDesign
in XP, however, doesn't seem to need them.

Does enybody else have similar problems with Vista and Adobe fonts, or
with older Adobe program versions? Do I have to purchase CS3 in order to
get the problem fixed? Or would getting hold of newer versions of the
font in question do the trick?

I can't directly answer your question since I don't have CS2 installed under
Vista (and have no plans to purchase CS3in any case), but just now I dug out
my copy of the Myriad Pro font kit.

The Adobe package I use ("Adobe Type Basics OpenType Edition") contains
eight files for Myrad Pro:

Regular, Italic, Bold, BoldItalic
BoldCondensed, BoldCondensedItalic
SemiCondensed, SemiCondensedItalic

Dropping these into my Vista testbed (installing them using the option in
the context menu) and building a document with WordPad I can get to all
eight fonts, plus fake bold flavors of the two SemiCondensed fonts.

Again, this doesn't directly address your question, but the fonts definitely
work as expected, at least in Wordpad under Vista.

Joe Morris

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

I can't directly answer your question since I don't have CS2 installed
under Vista (and have no plans to purchase CS3in any case), but just now I
dug out my copy of the Myriad Pro font kit.

The Adobe package I use ("Adobe Type Basics OpenType Edition") contains
eight files for Myrad Pro:

Regular, Italic, Bold, BoldItalic
BoldCondensed, BoldCondensedItalic
SemiCondensed, SemiCondensedItalic

Dropping these into my Vista testbed (installing them using the option in
the context menu) and building a document with WordPad I can get to all
eight fonts, plus fake bold flavors of the two SemiCondensed fonts.

Again, this doesn't directly address your question, but the fonts
definitely work as expected, at least in Wordpad under Vista.

Yeah, as they are OpenType fonts included with CS, I don't know why this
would happen for the OP.

ss.