Hi,

Just got a new pc. I installed my entire font library, and now every file is
saying I don't have Futura, when in fact I've got the entire Futura family. --
I installed every single font from my former computer, so how is this
happening? Now, all files are out of whack as it's substituting Arial!

Is there a regular Futura font I will now need to purchase? When I researched,
there seems to only be Futura Book, Futura Bold, etc, etc....but again, this
doesn't make any sense because it's the same fonts from my old computer!

Please advise! I don't want to have to manually select every single text box
in thousands of files to update. ~ thank you!

> Just got a new pc. I installed my entire font library, and now every file
> is
> saying I don't have Futura, when in fact I've got the entire Futura
> family. --
> I installed every single font from my former computer, so how is this
> happening?

a) Freehand sucks
b) I think (someone correct me if I'm wrong) Freehand has a limit as to how
many fonts it finds on your system. If you have hundreds and hundreds of
them, you may be hitting that limit.
c) I don't think Freehand can see OpenType fonts.
d) Are these your files? If not, perhaps the files are using a different
version of Futura than you have.

-Darrel

Hi,

I agree, but unfortunately it's the way the files were originally set up &
designed...in FH.
I tried to open a few of my Illustrator files, in Illustrator, and now the
same issue is happening when pertaining to the Futura font family.
It's definitely something with my new PC...can you recommend any kind of
system trouble shooting I can try?

Thanks!

> I tried to open a few of my Illustrator files, in Illustrator, and now the
> same issue is happening when pertaining to the Futura font family.

If that's the case, it sounds like

a) the Futura that was used in the documents is not the same version of
Futura you have installed on your machine.

or

b) something is wrong with your system and not seeing the typeface.

The fact that Illustrator has the same problem seems to rule out Freehand as
the culprit.

Can you access the font otherwise from your font pull-down menus? In both
illustrator and freehand?

-Darrel

Absolutely...but when I go to open previous files that contain it, it's not
recognizing. Freehand, in particular, is acting as if there's a regular Futura
font, aside from Futura Book, Bold, etc, etc...But this is not the case as I
can see what fonts I've always had in my fonts folder. They're TrueType and
when I double-click each in the fonts folder, all previews well. It's installed
properly.

Any other ideas? Or a recommendation my IT dept can try to troubleshoot the
new PC?

Thank you!!

OK, figured it out. There are two fonts folders on a PC. The system prefers
fonts to be installed to the fonts folder within the Control Panel vs. the
fonts folder within WINDOWS. ~ It was confusing the two.

get a Mac.

> get a Mac.

And ponder if the software you use is compatible with OSX Leopard, OSX Ocelot, OSX Weasel....

Jukka

> And ponder if the software you use is compatible with OSX Leopard, OSX
> Ocelot, OSX Weasel....

Silly. Weasels aren't cars!

I think OSX Tabby is next. Followed by OSX Feral Alley Cat.

-Darrle