I noticed a strange error while trying to open a project I created on OS X 10.6.6, right after upgrading to 10.6.7 and applying the Snow Leopard Font Update. When launching After Effects CS5 it popped up a dialog error message stating After Effects warning: Unable to create font. I searched Google and found that After Effects will error out if it does not find the Verdana font installed on your system. I also use Suitcase Fusion and opened that up to find that Verdana was in fact not activated. So I reactivated Verdana, closed and relaunched After Effects CS5, and to my surprise it worked fine again.
I suspect that after the Snow Leopard Font Update, it somehow deactivated Verdana. I wish After Effects CS5 would pop up a more descriptive window stating something like, “After Effects Warning: Verdana font not installed. Please re-install.”, but at this point I’m just happy to have it working again.
I hope this helps someone out there.
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Thank you very much!
WORKED!
Nico
Thank you so much for all!
Worked for me too. Thank you
thanks! worked for me!
Eric,
I thank you for helping us really has a problem like his, to enable the Verdana suitecase worked normally, thanks!
Thanks budy..
Thank you very much, Eric.
Thanks mate!
Awesome, thank you so much for posting this.
It works!!! thanks a lot…….
amazing.. thank you.
Eric! Your the man thanks so much. After searching the internet for 3hrs I found your site and it totally worked. Thanks again!!!
No prob guys. Happy this is helping some of you.
Thanks man, shoulda looked for a sollution before reinstalling AE..XD
Thanks a lot ! Found your lifesaving article in 3 sec.
You saved me a lot of time !!!
Thanks. It makes me want to start posting to help
not that it has anything to do with anything but hope this helps someone out there
when using photos in flash from photoshop to keep the color correct make sure the color setting in photosshop are set to generic before saving.
You’re a life saver. I wouldn’t have never figured out that a lack of Verdana was causing the issue…
You’re incredible! Thanks so much for this thoughtful post!
I was very lucky to find this on my first try. Thanks for creating the luck!
Worked! thanks Eric.
Oh my! Thank you thank you! I knew it was a font misbehaving but I would never have guessed!!!
You saved me! Thank you so much!!!
Thanks a million. I did the new update today 2/16/2012 and had this problem. Thought I was in trouble, but found your site quickly.
Dude, THANK YOU!!! Love all the generous souls who bestow this info on the interweb.
I have the verdana installed…. but still does not work… I have the 10.6.8 update, and Never touched the verdana before… should I download it from a certain website?
no problem… I was missing the italic and bold… I just copied them from my windows partition and it was just fine!!!! perfect