Half the fonts available to adobe software are shown

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I am a new (paid) user 2.21.0 win 11

Approx. half of the 917 fonts i have installed are being shown in font base. 468

the fonts are mostly adobe fonts - they show up in another font manager i have installed and i can use them in adobe software - how do i fix this?

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Hello again John,
Could you please describe by the process by which you’ve installed the fonts you mentioned?

Thank you again,

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Via the adobe fonts website

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Thank you for the quick reply John :pray:
FontBase is designed for managing fonts added directly into it (you can find more information here FontBase — Learn). If you’ve installed fonts via other means, then the likelihood of FontBase working properly with those files is quite low, as many conflicts between different applications may occur.
The fix would be to keep fonts you want to manage via FontBase separate from those you would like to manage directly yourself (e.g. installing manually into the system Fonts folder) or via other software.

Hope this helps :pray:
Thank you again,

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Probably due to the fact where these fonts come from. I’ve had same issues when I tried using some adobe fonts. There are issues when the metadata isn’t in the correctly added.

I used FontForge to open and check the fields and then adjust it. But doing so much fonts as you, that’s a nightmare

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Font base is amazing - like truly amazing but i can’t use it if it it can’t see adobe fonts that are already installed. I use a free ware font manager by AMP that is terrible BUT it can see everything that is on the system. I love Font base - so i don’t know …

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@wandrews sorry, I forgot to ask - the fonts that FontBase does not see - what format are they?

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Heya! Came to the forum to search for info on Adobe Fonts activation. On all of the related topics you replied that FontBase doesn’t provide support for it.

Are the reasons of technical nature? I don’t think it is licensing because one rival app is having this functionality(Typeface for mac) and I just don’t see a solo developer paying a fee to Adobe for usage in the app.

Thx

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Hello @fluxxus, thank you for the post and welcome to the forum :pray:
As discussed above, sadly, the most likely cause is technical in nature, yes.

Thank you again,