Unwanted Postscript fonts appearing in Illustrator 8.0.1 font menu

[annadesigner]

I have several fonts that are being managed by ATM 4.6 that are appearing correctly in the font menu of Illustrator 8.0.1., but then also have a postscript dodgy version of the font appearing immediately underneath the TT font in the menu.

For example I have Century Gothic (with all it's weights) then underneath is CenturyGothic (no space between) that automatically is italic - with no other weight options. It is not the correct italic - it is more angled. More frustratingly though is the problem that I am currently working on a file using Century Gothic, that when I save and leave the file, when I return all Century Gothic usage has turned to the postscript dodgy font version.

I have tried to find the postscript font to delete it - but cannot track it down anywhere.

Anyone got any suggestions how to resolve this one - without reinstalling Illustrator? (don't have it anymore).

Cheers

 

[jmgalvin]

Disable CenturyGothic in ATM.

 

[annadesigner]

Thanks for replying JM

I have done that and all that does is leave CenturyGothic (the postscript dodgy italic version) there.

I have done a search for the postscript font but cannot find it on the computer. Do you have any ideas what other name it could be saved as?

 

[annadesigner]

I know that this is an Illustrator problem because I have checked it out in Photoshop and there is no problem there. Is there a way of forcing Illustrator to refresh its font list?

 

[jmgalvin]

You might try a new Ill doc and see if that font is there. Your old doc could have it selected someplace - even in old deleted text. If it shows up on a new doc then you can go further.

If you're on a mac, you could quit ILL, go to Hard Drive/System Folder/Preferences and trash the prefs. Relaunch Ill and see what happens.

If you're on a pc scroll down this Ill forum to this topic; "limited tool bar and lost filters in Illustrator 7" and read responses from dimoj. He knows more about Windows than I do.

My guess is that, somewhere yu have a copy of this centurygothic thingy. You might look through all fonts and all collections just to make sure it's not someplace. You might look on you computer to see if you have a FOLDER named Century. If so, look in there to see if you see the centurygothic. Sometimes fonts get packagted that way instead of the TT suitcase and the T1 separate fonts.

 

[annadesigner]

Hi JM,

thanks for all that... I am on a Mac, and have tried trashing the prefs (the Illustrator ones), but no joy. Are there other preferences that I could be trashing too? I can't see what else I could throw, but maybe something font-related?

I had already done quite an extensive fontname searching process - including looking up folders/files named Century, or Century ITC etc, but to no avail.

I think I'm going to have to just find a copy of Illustrator 9.0 and install that instead.

Any more suggestions would be gratefully received - thanks again for your help though.

anna

 

[jmgalvin]

It has to be somewhere. It cannot appear from nowhere. When you use Find, try Name Contains rather than Name Is and see what pops up.

I just fooled around with that and came up with a TT Cenury Gothic in a "fonts folder" within the MS Office folder.

 

[jmgalvin]

Fogot Name - Contains - Century

Don't put naything else so you get the widest results

 

[annadesigner]

I'll try that and let you know in a minute!

 

[annadesigner]

I cannot find it AHHHHHHHHHHH. This is driving me mental - I have spent SO much time on it now.

I have tried (as you suggested) Century, and also Cent, and Gothic and short of going through every font folder on my computer (which would take another day of my life) I don't know what else to do?

Where could postscript fonts be hiding - cause I know I've got a group of weird ones hanging out somewhere...Century Schoolbook is doing the same, and so is Letter Gothic.

?

 

[jmgalvin]

Are you sure you used Name - Contains - Century (and nothing else) on the Mac Find gizmo? Name - Is - Century, will not give as many results and could miss it.

Another thing you could do is search by type and select font. That will give you a zillion results, but they should be in alpabetical order. When you're in any folder containing fonts, it's usually easier to use List view, sort by name. Maybe you'll see the version of Century that way.

 

[annadesigner]

I actually went through all the postscript fonts that way - put a search in for file type "font" and then ordered it in 'kind' and went through the postscript fonts.....

couldn't find them.

I'm using an alternative font now - and trying to get hold of a fresh copy of illustrator because I just cannot think of anything else to try.

Thanks for all your suggestions though!
cheers,anna