dots AND lines

My Illustrator recently gave me a headache when it suddenly does not capture the fonts installed in my PC after I repair my Windows XP Pro. The fonts did appear in top menu but not in the Character pallette. It had me searching few days for solution.

And I found it. It only solves partially though because the Chinese, Japanese and Korean character type are still not in the list. But it still good enough.

Here is the solution. Go install Adobe Reader. It helps. Somehow, it will reinstall/repair some of the necessary Adobe system files into your PC and fixed it as well. I am not sure if installing other Adobe applications will do a better job, but can try.

Else, maybe just format the PC and reinstall Windows follow by Illustrator. Start clean. Haha!