Font Management-I have a zillion Fonts but can’t see them all in Photoshop.

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Laurel_Bellon
Sep 19, 2006
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I read that Photoshop has "an unacknowledged font limit", so I tried turning off most of my fonts in Font Book.
What I get is all of my fonts, whether they are turned on or off, up until the letter P-no more fonts after P. An not even all of the P’s-only up to fonts that start with PI. I can see them all in other programs, like Word.
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Cybernetic Nomad
Sep 19, 2006
That’s becasue you still have more fonts than the PS limit.
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Buko
Sep 19, 2006
I have have 4500 fonts. the most fonts I have active at any time is between 50 & 60. All of these active fonts show up in Photoshop.
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Laurel_Bellon
Sep 19, 2006
Maybe I’m not understanding something about Font Book, because I thought I had turned most of my fonts off, but I’ll have to look again.
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alan_ruta
Sep 19, 2006
don’t know much about geography, or fontbook, but just in case I would try a restart. Perhaps the fonts are still cached.

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Michelle_Nolen
Sep 21, 2006
You probably need to delete the adobe font lists each time you change which fonts are enabled. To do this, search for adobefnt*.lst in spotlight and delete all of them (while PS is closed). When you restart PSCS2 it will recreate the font lists. Be careful NOT to delete adobefnt.db.
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katyp
Sep 21, 2006
I would look into getting a font management program, such as Font Agent Pro. I had lots of problems with my fonts until I got it and it has nifty plug-ins that you can download to auto-activate fonts that are in your InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop files.

http://www.insidersoftware.com/
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Laurel_Bellon
Sep 21, 2006
solved it.
I thought I had turned off most of my fonts and either: I did, and they got turned back on somehow, or it didn’t happen at all.
I went into font book, turned the majority of my fonts off, and was able to select the active fonts I wanted from the drop-down in PhotoShop.

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