If you have ever used that font in Adobe Software, such Adobe Reader, or Adobe Photoshop, or Adobe Illustrator or Adobe InDesign.. You must be found the fact that actually, "Arial Narrow Bold", and "Arial Narrow Italic" is not shown up..
I have encountered this problem and wasted much time to find the solution.. Adobe and Microsoft seems can't fix this problem..
I have found a solution called HotFix Office.. But this solution only available for Office 2007 (in time I write this post).. And my Office is 2010..
So I uninstall my office 2010, and instead install the Office 2007.. But it's still zero..
In my Illustrator, I still can't use Arial Narrow Bold or Italic..
So after few hours, trying every solutions I can find in Google, I have found one way, and this is working.. :D
You dont need to install hotfix whatever.. Here I want to share with you guys, so you guys dont need to wasted so many time figuring the solution out.. :
Here you go :
1. Go to this link :
http://www.shootingsoftware.com/ftp.htm
and download the Arial Narrow TTF..
The site provide Arial Narrow version 2.37..
(If the site is down, let me know, and I will uploaded the font for you guys.. :D)
2. Search your computer, and delete all files which is named "AdobeFnt*.lst"..
AdobeFnt*.lst is the cache files for Adobe program.. we will delete the old cache, and force the Adobe program to generate the new one (with our new fonts)..
The * mean random number.. Here I search my computer and found 4 files :
WARNING : Only delete LST files, and dont delete "AdobeFnt.db".. Because AdobeFnt.db is not the cache files..
3. Delete your font files..
Go to C://WINDOWS/Fonts/
and delete Arial Narrow font files..
There are 4 files you need to delete :
Arial Narrow
Arial Narrow Bold
Arial Narrow Italic
Arial Narrow Bold Italic
4. Remember the files you download in the Step 1?
Unzip them to a new folder and paste all of the 4 new font files to your Font Directories..
C://WINDOWS/Fonts/
5. Enjoy.. :D
As you can see, now Arial Narrow become separated from Arial..Because what you do is to make the Arial Narrow a different version from the original Arial, so the Adobe automatically make them separated..
Hope this tutorial help you guys.. :D
Regards,
Jaya