Arial Unicode Ms Bold Italic

[Pang Murdock]

Ijust had the problem to create a VF page that renders as a pdf and outputs polish text. The only font that supports polish characters is Arial Unicode MS but with this font, I can't output bold or italic, the renderer simply ignores it. The other fonts work as expected but there the special characters are missing.

Added font emulation for bold and italics variations when there is no direct support in the font files themselves. Fonts like Microsoft's Arial Unicode MS only come in one version: plain text. In order to have bold, italics and bold+italics the font must be modified on-the-fly by the PDF display software.

It's also possible(but unlikely) that you don't actually have the arial bold font file on your computer. To check, open a command prompt, move to c:\windows\fonts and type dir arial*.*. My computer show this

The 4 first files correspond to Arial regular, bold, bold italics and italics. If you only have the arial.ttf, then the others aren't installed. Note. You have to do this in a command window, because Windows applies a special format to the fonts directory in File Explorer and you can never show all font file names

You can still get a bold effect in programs like Word, without the specific files, the because the Windows font rendering system can use the regular font and simulate bold and italics. Though I'm not privy to the inner workings of the Alteryx rendering engine, I think it's probably trying to specify the font files to be included in the output document and can't find the arialdb.ttf file.

I will check if I have Arial bold installed. I was under the impression that if I could use it in my word document, I would have it installed on my pc. I will check that route on Monday, and I will definitely let you know.

This problem arose suddenly. Whenever I try to write Arial in any Microsoft Office application (including WordPad) the text appears italic. Changing it to italic and back just does nothing, the text remains italic in both settings.

This is not a system wide issue with the font itself, for example webpages for which I set the font to Arial in 'Inspect Element' show up as expected. If I upload the same Powerpoint file to OneDrive and view it in the WebApp, it is also displayed normally. Printing the local file as PDF (I don't have a physical printer), however, also exports it italicised, even if viewed in different applications (Edge, Adobe Acrobat) or uploaded to OneDrive.

Update: After having solved it, I believe that it also didn't render the webpage with Arial, but used some fallback that looked very similar (or maybe pulled it from somewhere online?). Nevertheless, it appears like it actually was a system-wide error and the Word WebApp used a remote version of Arial to render it correctly.

Change value to the filename as displayed in cmd dir C:\Windows\Fonts and (I'm not sure if strictly necessary) the name to the respective name of the font, as seen in the font preview window when double-clicking a font file, with an added "(TrueType)" if it supports it.

Looking at the fonts setting (in Settings), I saw that it was installed, but when navigating to the global fonts folder C:\Windows\Fonts did not list the default Arial font, but only its variations, such as bold and italic.

Notably, viewing this specific folder in Explorer does not actually show the folder's contents on the disk; it only shows correctly installed fonts. Looking at the folder from CMD with dir C:\Windows\Fonts shows the actual files at that location. CMD showed that arial.ttf was present but not installed according to the folder view in Explorer.

For headlines and headings, the Black fonts such as Arial Black, Gill Sans Ultra Bold, and Rockwell Extra Bold are better than simply using bold fonts at larger sizes. They are especially designed for headings, whereas bold fonts are designed for emphasis in running text. In addition to Black, Extra Bold, and Ultra Bold fonts which are designed to look better for headings than bold fonts at large sizes. Likewise, special regular-only fonts such as Big Caslon, Cooper Black, Impact, and Perpetua Titling MT are designed to look great at large sizes of 72 pixels or greater.

Here is a list of the fonts on my computer (and probably yours too) that have a decent repertoire of special characters. Some of these font families only have a regular font while others have a complement of regular, italic (or oblique), bold, and bold italic (or bold oblique) fonts. The font families listed in bold have extensive character repertoires. The fonts with an asterisk after its name are the only ones that contain ligatures (which I will explain in a moment).

I have been using CS5, had problems with the Arial Narrow font not showing up as four variations but only one, and eventually got it resolved somehow so that I had a separate font listed as Arial Narrow in the font name drop down list and four variations listed in the other drop down list (all distinct from the Arial font with its four variations). I know I deleted a lot of AdobeFnt*.lst files. I know I tried the hotfix that I found through a lot of Google searching, but it said it didn't apply to my system. Beyond that, I don't know what fixed the problem and I remember it feeling like a lot of trial and error, but eventually I got it solved.

I have three sets of TTF files for Arial Narrow, each set with four files for regular, bold, italic and bold italic. One set is version 2.20, one is version 2.37 and the other is version 2.40. My system is running Windows 7 Professional, 64-bit.

Does anyone have any idea of what will fix this problem on my system? I have a lot of InDesign documents that use Arial Narrow, so now whenever I open one of them, I have lots of missing font references. If I could get Arial Narrow reinstalled properly once again, they'd all go away.

I'm sorry I didn't make it clear about the versions of the font. I have those three versions in a personal folder, but I only have one version installed at a time. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the font multiple times, using the older versions, again with only one version installed at a time, but without success.

I have version 2.30 here and it works fine. You should move two of the redundant versions out of the fonts folder. I think the older versions are more likely to work than the newest, but you'll have to give them a try.

I found a solution for myself. Regenerate in ttf by defalt all 4 arial narrow fonts with Fontlab Studio without any changes to fonts info or structure. Then install them into system (Windows/Fonts). Clean old arial narrows files before. Then do search for adobefnt*.lst on system disk. Delete those files (only .lst not .db or any other). Great! Works perfectly in all adobe apps! Shows all names in arial family submenue.

This problem is due to the offending fonts having the wrong "Preferred Family" and "Preferred Subfamily" names and it can be corrected using a Font Editor, such as the free version of Type light which can be downloaded from

I tried what you had instructed, but still the fonts do not read correctly. Not sure why when i see others were able to solve the problem. I did a search on

AdobeFnt*.lst but nothing showed up in search. At a loss as to how to proceed. Would hate to change the font on all our labels in indesign. Any other ideas?

These files definitely need to be deleted for the solution to work. If they are not found when InDesign is next started up, new versions are created with the updated font list, otherwise the old versions prevail and the changed fonts do not show up.

I found the directories with no difficulty, but the only folder that actually had anything in it was Illustrator. File was called IllustratorFnt.lst. Should i remove that as well? I am assuming then that somewhere in adobe the lst file is there but i haven't found it by manually searching.

Sorry, you have just past the limit of my capability in this area. Its very odd there is no AdobeFnt*.lst files if you have opened and used InDesign. Maybe one of the Adobe experts here can help (eg Peter Spier) ?

I don't think the files used by ID are in the user profile, however. Since you haven't provided the version of Windows or ID it's hard to get specific, but you should also be looking in Program Files [or Program Files(x86)]\Common Files\Adobe and the various Fonts and type support subfolders, and Program Files [or Program Files(x86)]\Adobe and the various application private fonts folders contained there.

After looking through every directory under Program Files(x86\Common Files\Adobe with several reboots and clearing temp files, I have Arial Narrow working in InDesign but not Photoshop or Illustrator. I use the old fonts as well for arial narrow (1998 version 2.0) as i'm familar with the problem with office and windows 7 grouping fonts. Not sure why Illustrator still is causing problems. Again, the only file that I'm unsure about is IllustratorFnt.lst under C:\Users\lorryh\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CS6 Settings\en_GB\x64. Any ideas on this latest would be great thanks.

Ok, i will try that. Just and FYI, I double checked notepad and found arial narrow doesn't work there as well. Am consulting with microsoft as that may be the problem since indesign is working. will let you know how I make out

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