Type 1 Font issue on Vista
by Christian Wheel
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Aug 12, 2008 at 10:32:25 pm
I have a Type 1 font called Antique Olive that is used in a comp I created a few months ago. I created this project on WinXP and never had any problems with it.
Recently I've upgraded to Vista and ported all my fonts over. I have verified that the font is installed. Antique Olive is available in Word and even Sony Vegas.
However it doesn't show up in AE. In fact I'm missing the font when I open my comp. I've tried copying it over to my (ancient) WinXP laptop and it works there, seems it's specifically on Vista that there's a problem. Working on my old laptop (pentium 3 with 256mb of ram) is not an option, needless to say.
Anybody run into this problem before or have any solutions?
Edit: Upon closer inspection, it appears NONE of my Type 1 fonts are available in AE. Now this is becoming a bigger problem than just this project.
Re: Type 1 Font issue on Vista by Dave LaRonde on Aug 12, 2008 at 10:47:56 pm
This isn't so much a recommendation as it is an observation.
I'm getting a Windows box for home, despite being a Mac guy at work. Well, actually, I'm having a nice Windows box built for me. Now, Mac guys hear all the horror stories about Vista, and how it doesn't work with anything. So before I settled on an OS, I did a little investigating: what do the Big Boys use for an OS?
I checked out the specs for those big, high-horsepower, faster 'n lightning, oodles o' storage HP Workstations. You know, the ones that the HP ads want you to believe are being used to make 3D cartoon pandas.
You know what those top-of-the-line HP workstations run? Windows Vista DOWNGRADED to Windows XP. No fooling. Says so right on the web site.
Needless to say, they're installing Windows XP on my new machine.
Dave LaRonde
Sr. Promotion Producer
KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA
Re: Type 1 Font issue on Vista by Christian Wheel on Aug 13, 2008 at 4:18:47 am
After considerable research, I've found that depending on the api call a program uses to read its font list, Type 1 fonts may or may not work under Vista. The actual problem is that adobe is using a legacy API call to build their font list in the CS3 apps that functions correctly under XP (and maybe even Vista x86, not sure), but not under Vista x64.
The only workaround was to drop some cash on a program called TransType Pro that let me batch convert all my Type 1 fonts to TrueType fonts.
P.I.T.A. but it's done now.
----- Christian Wheel -----
Radio Host, 104.3 MyFM, Los Angeles
Audio Production & Imaging
MS Visual Studio Developer
After Effects Enthusiast
