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February 23, 2012
Question

Symbol font missing

  • February 23, 2012
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Hi Adepters:

I've installed AE 6.0, 64-bit, M030, on my machine for the first time. It seemed to not play well with leaving AE 5.4 installed (in a different location, of course). So, I then uninstalled AE 5.4. After that, when I launch the editor I get an error window proclaiming:

Warning: Could not find the application's symbol font.
It will not be possible to display certain symbols and icons.

So, yes, my nifty para icons are not displaying. I tried to do a repair install, but that didn't help. I checked in the AE 6.0 fonts folder and there are 4 symbol fonts, just as there are for AE 5.4. My Windows 7 fonts folder also has 2 symbol fonts. Or, is it just complaining about the para icons, wherever those live?

Any ideas how I can get my symbol font back?

Dave

    6 replies

    18-Opal
    February 23, 2012
    Hi Dave--



    I think this actually refers to the font arbortext.ttf. Make sure that's
    configured correctly and you should be good to go.



    --Clay





    Clay Helberg

    Senior Consultant

    TerraXML


    1-Visitor
    February 23, 2012
    Thanks, Clay. The font "arbortex.ttf" (and "arbortex.pfa") is in the fonts folder. What more would I need to do to configure it?

    Dave
    18-Opal
    February 23, 2012
    Make sure it's installed so Windows can recognize it. Try right-clicking
    the TTF file and select "Install" from the context menu.



    --Clay





    Clay Helberg

    Senior Consultant

    TerraXML


    1-Visitor
    February 23, 2012
    That was it. Thanks, Clay!
    1-Visitor
    April 24, 2013

    NOTE: The filename for me is arbortex.ttf, NOT arbortext.ttf.


    Our custom install has it off on our 😧 drive under Epic/fonts/ for version 6.0 so I ended up searching for the wrong filename and not finding it.


    Hope that helps someone else - and thanks Clay!

    18-Opal
    April 24, 2013
    Thanks for the clarification on the file name, John. Must be a holdover
    from the bad old days of 8-character filenames. 🙂



    --Clay



    Clay Helberg

    Senior Consultant



    TerraXML

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