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Strange Font mix up
Hi guys,
In AE7 we copied accross a project from another computer (on which it was created) to another. We then opened the copied project and it says Missing Fonts even though they are definately there.
It looks like AE definately got confused and picked the first Helvetica Neue type font in the list and substituded it with what it was supposed to be. Strangely it shows up in AE as having the correct name (Family and font) but it is definately the wrong one. This has happened with about 10 fonts.
Whats going on
Thanks
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3 Replies
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I think what you may need to do is select the font change it to arial (or anything else) and the change it back to the font you want. Then save and close and open up the project again and see if the warning comes up. I seem to remember that happening a few months back to me.
OR, if your original was on a different platform (PC to Mac or visa versa) it may be something else, but the above is where I would start.
T
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Are you sure your fonts are 100% identical? Doesn’t sound like it is to me. Maybe one of the weights you are using is not properly installed or you are using different versions of the font on different systems (maybe PS on the one and TTF on the other)? In that case it would be impossible for AE to keep your project intact as different fonts always produce different font IDs on the host OS as well as inside AE.
Mylenium
[Pour Myl
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Interesting. No I’m not sure the Fonts are identical, but they share exactly the same name!
Everything is installed fine… It seems it had something to do with which type of fonts were originally installed on the ‘new’ machine. All of the fonts used in the project were transfered, but because other fonts already installed on the ‘new’ machine clashed with those being transfered AE pulled out the wrong ones!
The only solution was to manually change each of the fonts with what we thought it should be!
This seems rather a poor aspect of AE. surely there’s an easier way!
Cheers
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