Type Tool stuck in "Monotype.com"

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fred fep
Sep 22, 2004
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Hi. I was hoping someone would be able to help me with the following problem that just popped up.

I make baseball cards in Photoshop. I use the type tool a lot..

In looking through my fonts I found one called Lotus Postal Barcode. It has 10 keys to press to have fonts that look like part of a bar code. I thought this would be cute to add at the bottom of a card I was making.

So I clicked on that font and the font that showed up was not it. And son I realized that whatever font I clicked on was the same font. After turning everything off…I realize now that the type tool is stuck in a font that is called Monotype.com

Monotype.com

I am not sure I had this font before, but Type Tool opens to it now only and no matter what I choose in font name the only letters or numbers appearing are this monotonous monotype….

How can I return my type tool in my photoshop to normal so all the fonts but just one work again?

Monotype is almost the most boring of my hundreds of fonts and I can’t continue with this nonsense or else I will have to do everything in Paint after scanning it and that’s a bore.

Which I am doing now and it sucks this way really. So anyone know how to unstuck, unstick my type tool in Photoshop

Thanks,
fred Fep
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Danhiel – SoupOrNews Admin
Sep 22, 2004
in article 8v44d.9125$, fred fep at
wrote on 09/21/2004 6:24 PM:

So anyone know how to
unstuck, unstick my type tool in Photoshop

Thanks,
fred Fep

Go to http://www.artistmike.com and your questions will be answered.
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fred fep
Sep 22, 2004
This was no help at all, doesn’t anyone know?
"Danhiel – SoupOrNews Admin" wrote in message
in article 8v44d.9125$, fred fep
at
wrote on 09/21/2004 6:24 PM:

So anyone know how to
unstuck, unstick my type tool in Photoshop

Thanks,
fred Fep

Go to http://www.artistmike.com and your questions will be answered.

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Danhiel – SoupOrNews Admin
Sep 22, 2004
No problem.

in article yd74d.9377$, fred fep at
wrote on 09/21/2004 9:30 PM:

This was a great help, thanks!

Go to http://www.artistmike.com and your questions will be answered.

FF
fred fep
Sep 22, 2004
I said it was no help at all
"Danhiel – SoupOrNews Admin" wrote in message
No problem.

in article yd74d.9377$, fred fep
at
wrote on 09/21/2004 9:30 PM:

This was a great help, thanks!

Go to http://www.artistmike.com and your questions will be answered.
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Combaticus
Sep 22, 2004
Yes…so do you want a cookie?

in article U284d.9423$, fred fep at
wrote on 09/21/2004 10:27 PM:

I said it was a great help.

"Danhiel – SoupOrNews Admin" wrote in message
No problem.

in article yd74d.9377$, fred fep
at
wrote on 09/21/2004 9:30 PM:

This was a great help, thanks!

Go to http://www.artistmike.com and your questions will be answered.

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Andrew Morton
Sep 22, 2004
You can reset the preferences in Photoshop by pressing ctrl+alt+shift just as it is starting; this solves many problems in PS, but you may want to note down your colour settings and any other preferences you’ve changed before doing that.

Andrew
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tacitr
Sep 22, 2004
This was no help at all, doesn’t anyone know?

Step 1: Ignore Artist Mike. In fact, if you killfile him, this newsgroup inproves dramatically.

Step 2: Check for a corrupt font. Corrupt fonts can cause all kinds of problems in Photoshop. To do this, quit Photoshop and disable the font that is causing the problem. Then launch Photoshop again. Does it work?

If not:

Step 3: Move Photoshop’s Preferences files to your Desktop and relaunch Photoshop. It will build new Preferences files. If that solves the problem, then you can trash the Preferences files you moved to the Desktop.

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fred fep
Sep 23, 2004
"Tacit" wrote in message
This was no help at all, doesn’t anyone know?
Step 2: Check for a corrupt font. Corrupt fonts can cause all kinds of
problems
in Photoshop. To do this, quit Photoshop and disable the font that is
causing
the problem. Then launch Photoshop again. Does it work?

Weird. I deleted that font. I turn on Photoshop and now that monotype.com font was not there but still every font looks like that font still in Type Tool window…

So I uninstalled Photoshop and reinstalled Photoshop and tonight was doing all sorts of font work again for hours and…

well there must be some reason because it has done this again. I don’t know which font this time maybe the last I was using,,,maybe called er, but I’m not sure. Now why would it do this again witha reinstalled one? Could a virus do this? This is driving me nuts now…
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fred fep
Sep 23, 2004
"Andrew Morton" wrote in message
You can reset the preferences in Photoshop by pressing ctrl+alt+shift just as it is starting; this solves many problems in PS, but you may want to note down your colour settings and any other preferences you’ve changed before doing that.

This didn’t work this tiem now that it is happening again after reinstalling and using it all night.

And where do I finf the Preference files? How would I move it to the desktop if I can’t locate it so far?

Andrew
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Andrew Morton
Sep 23, 2004
fred fep wrote:

And where do I finf the Preference files? How would I move it to the desktop if I can’t locate it so far?

I think you meant to reply to Tacit’s response, however:- http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/312917.html

Andrew
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tacitr
Sep 23, 2004
Weird. I deleted that font. I turn on Photoshop and now that monotype.com font was not there but still every font looks like that font still in Type Tool window…

Definitely sounds like you have corrupt fonts on your computer somewhere. These are always a big hassle to find; the process usually involves disabling your fonts, verifying that Photoshop works, then re-enabling them until you find the damaged one(s).

If you have any free fonts, downloaded fonts, or fonts from one of those "50,000 FONTS FOR $5!!!!!!!" collections, suspect those ones first.

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fred fep
Sep 23, 2004
I realize now that it is only the Type Tool window….if I OK it, it appears as the correct font on the artwork…Not that this makes this acceptable…

"Andrew Morton" wrote in message
fred fep wrote:

And where do I finf the Preference files? How would I move it to the desktop if I can’t locate it so far?

I think you meant to reply to Tacit’s response, however:- http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/312917.html

Andrew
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fred fep
Sep 24, 2004
"Andrew Morton" wrote in message
fred fep wrote:

And where do I finf the Preference files? How would I move it to the desktop if I can’t locate it so far?

I think you meant to reply to Tacit’s response, however:- http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/312917.html

If I delete the preference settings what do I replace them with?

Somewhere someone asked my OS..Sadly until a few weeks from now it is still Windows 95, so this is PhotoShop 4.0 I have..

Don’t laugh. I do a surprising amount of work on it. Where are the preferences there?
fep

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