Computer Graphics with Photoshop - Type Tool stuck in "Monotype.com"

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Type Tool stuck in "Monotype.com"

fred fep

2004-09-22, 11:14 am

Hi. I was hoping someone would be able to help me with the following problem
that just popped up.

I make baseball cards in Photoshop. I use the type tool a lot..

In looking through my fonts I found one called Lotus Postal Barcode. It has
10 keys to press to have fonts that look like part of a bar code. I thought
this would be cute to add at the bottom of a card I was making.

So I clicked on that font and the font that showed up was not it. And son I
realized that whatever font I clicked on was the same font. After turning
everything off...I realize now that the type tool is stuck in a font that is
called Monotype.com

Monotype.com

I am not sure I had this font before, but Type Tool opens to it now only and
no matter what I choose in font name the only letters or numbers appearing
are this monotonous monotype....

How can I return my type tool in my photoshop to normal so all the fonts but
just one work again?

Monotype is almost the most boring of my hundreds of fonts and I can't
continue with this nonsense or else I will have to do everything in Paint
after scanning it and that's a bore.

Which I am doing now and it sucks this way really. So anyone know how to
unstuck, unstick my type tool in Photoshop

Thanks,
fred Fep

Danhiel - SoupOrNews Admin

2004-09-22, 11:14 am

in article 8v44d.9125$mb6.1059@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net, fred fep at
luckyshow@mindspring.com wrote on 09/21/2004 6:24 PM:

>So anyone know how to
> unstuck, unstick my type tool in Photoshop
>
> Thanks,
> fred Fep

Go to http://www.artistmike.com and your questions will be answered.

fred fep

2004-09-28, 7:15 am

"Andrew Morton" <akm@in-press.co.uk.invalid> wrote in message
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> You can reset the preferences in Photoshop by pressing ctrl+alt+shift
> just as it is starting; this solves many problems in PS, but you may
> want to note down your colour settings and any other preferences you've
> changed before doing that.

This didn't work this tiem now that it is happening again after reinstalling
and using it all night.

And where do I finf the Preference files? How would I move it to the desktop
if I can't locate it so far?

>
> Andrew
>

fred fep

2004-09-28, 7:15 am

"Andrew Morton" <akm@in-press.co.uk.invalid> wrote in message
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> fred fep wrote:
>
>
> I think you meant to reply to Tacit's response, however:-
> http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/312917.html

If I delete the preference settings what do I replace them with?

Somewhere someone asked my OS..Sadly until a few weeks from now it is still
Windows 95, so this is PhotoShop 4.0 I have..

Don't laugh. I do a surprising amount of work on it. Where are the
preferences there?
fep

>
> Andrew

Tacit

2004-09-28, 12:15 pm

>Weird. I deleted that font. I turn on Photoshop and now that monotype.com
>font was not there but still every font looks like that font still in Type
>Tool window...

Definitely sounds like you have corrupt fonts on your computer somewhere. These
are always a big hassle to find; the process usually involves disabling your
fonts, verifying that Photoshop works, then re-enabling them until you find the
damaged one(s).

If you have any free fonts, downloaded fonts, or fonts from one of those
"50,000 FONTS FOR $5!!!!!!!" collections, suspect those ones first.

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fred fep

2004-09-28, 7:16 pm

I realize now that it is only the Type Tool window....if I OK it, it appears
as the correct font on the artwork...Not that this makes this acceptable...

"Andrew Morton" <akm@in-press.co.uk.invalid> wrote in message
news:4152bdc9$0$21893$afc38c87@news.easynet.co.uk...
> fred fep wrote:
>
>
> I think you meant to reply to Tacit's response, however:-
> http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/312917.html
>
> Andrew