One two machines I have PhotoShop CS installed + OS X 10.3.5 and the font menu is incomplete. There are a large number of fonts installed, but the show correctly in Illustrator and InDesign (and everything else).
Please do a forum search on key words like Photoshop font limit. It has been discussed here innumerable times.
Bottom line: You have way too many fonts active. That’s a bad idea in the first place. Get a font management utility (like FontAgent Pro) and activate only those fonts you need for the job.
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I’m curious as to what happened at Adobe in this area. Why would only PS not support numerous fonts but all the other apps seem to handle them fine. Whether your preference is to have 6 fonts or 6000, I think on a more fundamental level, PS should have the same expected behavior as the other Adobe apps.
While I very seldom use text in Photoshop, I agree with you. This font limit has been there at least since Photoshop 7, and Adobe certainly knows about it. I’m not aware of any comment in this regard coming from Adobe.
Perhaps Chris is right. PS may not have a font limit, but perhaps PS also does not work well with Apple’s home-grown FontBook utility. PS is unable to show all my fonts on both my work and home machines. Somewhere there is an explination I’m guessing.
Ramon – more like a menu limit that’s not so easy to deal with, plus FontBook (which we try to work with), plus fonts with bad encodings, plus fonts with bad info (usually shareware), plus…..
How do InDesign and Illustrator deal with this? All fonts show up there.
I have only good quality fonts (mostly Adobe) and I saw this in Photoshop 7.0.1 in Mac OS 9.2.2 (no FontBook there) when I had too many fonts activated.
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