Confused about TrueType fonts

[dops7107]

So I have installed a font (Foundry Sterling Book) on my Mac (10.4.9) and it appears in Font Book. It is a TrueType (.ttf) font - the filename is "Foustbk_.ttf". I can use it in Text Edit. Why can I not see it in the font menu in Word 2004?

Are some TrueType fonts PC compatible, and therefore not fully Mac compatible? I don't understand why some apps see it, and others don't.

Thanks.

 

[wrldwzrd89]

Do any other applications besides MS Word not see the font? If it's just Word, the cause is most likely an outdated font cache. Word builds its own font cache in order to display the pretty WYSIWYG view in the fonts pull-down menu.