Newly installed fonts are not recognized
In the past, when I activated or installed one or more new fonts with my font management program, Illustrator would indicate after a few seconds that the fonts had been recognized.
If I do that today, I have to restart Illustrator so that the fonts are displayed as active in the program.
Not nice.
Can anyone help or is this a bug within Illustrator?
Andreas
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The team has a fix for this problem, intended to be pushed into the MAX release
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Jhuli Alves commented
After recent updates, when a font is installed while the program is in use, it does not appear in the list. You need to close the program and open it again. This wasn't a problem before.
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Andreas
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Hello Egor,
The font management program I use is called MainType 8.0 / (high-logic.com). I've been using MainType for over eight years now. But this problem is new. I first noticed it a few weeks ago after an update.
I'm using a PC with Windows 11. The system has the fonts supplied with Windows installed, and I activate or install fonts when I need them for a project. These are located in a folder on the "C" drive. These are mostly OpenType fonts these days.
Even if I install a font directly from C, I still have to close and reopen the file used in Illustrator. Only then is the font active. That's frustrating. -
Andreas, the team would need to know what font management program are you using, where are these fonts located, what are these fonts exactly? How many of these do you have installed?
If you install these using the default method (with putting files directly into c:\Windows\Fonts\) — do these get added faster?Personally, I’ve been having a similar problem for decades now. Sometimes these do get added 'fast' (less than 10 seconds), sometimes it goes up to 30 seconds. Most of times Ai goes unresponding while these do get added. And yes, I do recall this behavior, with not seeing added fonts at all — but it stopped maybe a half a year ago...
Working on Mac feels a lot faster, but I never had the same amount of active fonts there.