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RedElectro

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Sep 26, 2010
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United Kingdom
Hi,
I've recently downloaded a font from the Google Font Directory to do a mock-up of a website. I intended to use the font in the CSS for all heading etc.

After installing the downloaded font (Orbitron) I used it successfully to create a mock up of the webpage, then while working on another document, Photoshop quit unexpectedly and when I restarted, only one member of the Orbitron font family would work - reloading the mock-up of the web page told me that fonts originally used were now missing.

I've tried all the usuals. Restarting the computer, validating the fonts in Font book, removing the fonts and reinstalling, resetting the Photoshop preferences... nothing seems to work, it's like after the crash, photoshop isn't interested!!

Weird thing is, the font is still available in other software... well apart from Illustrator. TextEdit and Pages can see all the fonts in the Orbitron family fine.

Oh by the way, it's a .ttf (don't know if that matters) I could really do with getting this working again. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.
 
I think I've solved this, if anyone's interest or had the same problem?

For some reason, the font has installed in my account only - although this doesn't explain why it worked at first.

I copied the fonts into

Macintosh HD>Library>fonts
and deleted the originals at

User>Library>fonts
then in

FontBook I validated the fonts just to be sure.

Everything's working fine.
 
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