Limited User Accounts/New Fonts/Rebooting =(

Does anybody else here run Photoshop via a Limited User XP account (ie. not Administrator) and get sick of having to reboot the system when they install new fonts?

You have to login as Admin to install new fonts of course, but they’re only visible to the Admin account, not to Limited User accounts already logged in. You’d think relogging those LU accounts would allow them (and therefore Photoshop) to see the new fonts but no, you have to reboot the whole system.

…unless somebody knows of a solution to this.
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Try this, Photoshop checks the directories containing fonts for updates in the background. Make sure the type tool is the front tool (the background checks are more aggressive then), switch over to Explorer and put the font into the Adobe common fonts folder location (Program Files\Common\Adobe\Fonts), then switch back to Photoshop. Depending on the number of fonts copied there, it can take a minute for the updates to all be processed and the menu itself updated.

One may as well begin with Toobi’s letter to adobe.photoshop.windows…

Try this, Photoshop checks the directories containing fonts for updates in the background. Make sure the type tool is the front tool (the background checks are more aggressive then), switch over to Explorer and put the font into the Adobe common fonts folder location (Program Files\Common\Adobe\Fonts), then switch back to Photoshop. Depending on the number of fonts copied there, it can take a minute for the updates to all be processed and the menu itself updated.

Oh what an excellent tip! I can drop fonts in that directory and Photoshop finds them when it’s restarted. I can even access that directory from a Limited User account, so no need to login as Admin, no need to install new fonts globally, no need to reboot, excellent!
Thank you so much! =)

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One may as well begin with Toobi’s letter to adobe.photoshop.windows…

Try this, Photoshop checks the directories containing fonts for updates in the background. Make sure the type tool is the front tool (the background checks are more aggressive then), switch over to Explorer and put the font into the Adobe common fonts folder location (Program Files\Common\Adobe\Fonts), then switch back to Photoshop. Depending on the number of fonts copied there, it can take a minute for the updates to all be processed and the menu itself updated.

Oh what an excellent tip! I can drop fonts in that directory and Photoshop finds them when it’s restarted. I can even access that directory from a Limited User account, so no need to login as Admin, no need to install new fonts globally, no need to reboot, excellent!
Thank you so much! =)

You’re welcome, if you want your fonts to be available in other apps though, you will need to install them to the Windows\Fonts directory.