• VEGAS Pro

  ProType Titler font question

  Posted by Larry Brewer on November 6, 2007 at 6:57 am

  Vegas 8 has 4 CGs. Video Factory Text (Legacy) , Text (Legacy), Text (Vegas 7?) and ProType Titler (Vegas 8).

  I have about 1200 fonts loaded into my PC and they all show up in Adobe PS CS2 and Vegas text (Vegas 7). But I only see about 50 fonts in my ProType titler. It appears that ProType titler doesn’t see any of my Adobe font libary (.PFM) fonts.

  Does ProType titler only use .TTF fonts?

  Is there any way to get the ProType Titler to use the rest of my fonts?

  It appears that the Legacy text generators have the same limitation. TTF only.

  Larry Brewer replied 18 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 7 Replies
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  Edward Troxel

  November 6, 2007 at 3:31 pm

  I know it uses “Open Type” fonts. These are typically .ttf or .otf. See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenType

  Edward Troxel
  
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  Larry Brewer

  November 6, 2007 at 5:41 pm

  Wikipedia sayz..
  OpenType is intended by Microsoft and Adobe to be the successor to the TrueType font format which was developed by Apple Computer

  Wikipedia doesn’t shed much light on the problem, actually makes it more confusing.

  Somehow it’s backwards because my ProType Titler works fine with TTF fonts but ignores the entire Adobe library, which is OpenType.

  I’ll keep digging.

  Thanks for your suggestion.

  Larry Brewer
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  Steven Broido

  November 7, 2007 at 5:14 am

  I had the same exact problem and resolved it by copying and dragging adobe fonts into the Windows font directory.

  For example, when I did a search for Adobe Caslon Pro, it lived in a Adobe directory (Adobe CS2), dragging Adobe fonts to the general Windows font area did the trick for me.

  S
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  Larry Brewer

  November 8, 2007 at 5:31 am

  Thank you for the suggestion. The fix won’t work for me though because the fonts are already in my C:windows/fonts.

  They appear in PS CS2, Vegas 8 “text” media generator but not the ProType titler.

  All the TTF fonts in my windows font folder work with ProType Titler but none of the .PFM fonts. While both type work fine in the Vegas 8 “text” media generator.

  Is the ProType titler limited to TTF fonts only?

  Larry Brewer
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  Steven Broido

  November 8, 2007 at 12:43 pm

  I’m stumped… I’ve also noticed that some fonts don’t seem to carry over from my system to the Pro Type Titler… Perhaps somebody else has a fix?
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  Steven Broido

  November 8, 2007 at 12:43 pm

  I’m stumped… I’ve also noticed that some fonts don’t seem to carry over from my system to the Pro Type Titler… Perhaps somebody else has a fix?
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  Larry Brewer

  November 8, 2007 at 4:08 pm

  What extension do the fonts that don’t carry over to ProType titler have? .TTF? .PFM?

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