Note: OpenType fonts can be internally Truetype flavoured or Postscript-flavoured (in other words, the font outlines are stored as quadratic or bezier splines, respectively). Unfortunately, C4D doesn’t appear to understand postscript-flavoured OpenType files. If you choose postscript, you get a file dialog and you can pick a postscript font file from disk (which most people are relatively unfamiliar with doing). This is actually an improvement on earlier versions of C4D, that would crash if you did this. The trick, though, is that if you choose a postscript font (or postscript-flavoured OpenType font) from this dialog, you will get nothing. If you choose Truetype, you get the standard font dialog, where all you fonts are listed. You have to choose whether you are loading a Truetype or a Postscript type 1 font. I think this is just due to C4D’s unfortunate font rendering approach. If the Futura font in your system is a OpenType font, Cinema won’t load it (because OpenType fonts contain special decryption keys unknown to the Cinema font engine). I’ve seen cases, where an external font manager didn’t give Cinema access to the font glyphs (for whatever reason), but most likely it’s not a question of complexity, it’s a question of font format.Ĭinema supports TrueType and Postscript fonts. Is anyone else out there experiencing this, or is it just me? I know I can just make the text in Illustrator and export it out, but it would be nice to not have to take the extra steps. This happens on both of my machines, a Quad G5 and a MacBook Pro, both running C4D 10.5/OSX 10.5.3 though as I recall this issue has been persistent ever since I started running Leopard. Suitcase Fusion will install the Connect Fonts desktop application and reopen. Suitcase Fusion will download the Connect Fonts desktop application when its done, click Install and Relaunch. I used to occasionally run across issues like this with more obscure fonts, but it now seems as if only the default Helvetica and a small handful of others are useable. If Suitcase is already open, go to Suitcase Fusion > Check for Updates. Even simple fonts like Futura result in the text object completely disappearing. So, lately I have noticed that Text Objects (and Text Splines) in C4D don’t see the vast majority of the fonts on my system.
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