WooleyTip: Fixing Adobe!
Greetings! I present to you, the first and finest WooleyTip. I figure everyone needs a catch word for at least one thing or another, so I’ve “wooley’d” up the word “tip.” Anywho, onto the tip.Recently, I ran into a problem with Adobe InDesign CS2. For some reason, upon startup, it errored out and told me that it was “Missing required system fonts or cmap files.” I searched around until I came to a handy dandy site that had all the answers.It took a few posts, but someone had the right idea. Apparently, some common files (a font in particular) is required for InDesign (and other Adobe programs) to start at all. The idea given on the site was to download the tryout of InDesign and use the commonFilesInstaller.msi (found in all Adobe Tryouts) to re-install the missing fonts and all the other common files.The trouble with this, was that with updates that have come out, newer common files have been released and the common file installer will not install older versions of itself. So, I searched around and found I still had the Adobe After Effects 7.0 Tryout on my hard drive. Since it’s the newest product I’ve downloaded, I used its commonFileInstaller.msi and voila! it worked!So, in summary: To fix missing fonts or CMap files for Adobe products, use the latest commonFilesInstaller.msi you can find (whether that is on an installation CD or a downloaded product Tryout).Hopefully this will help someone now or in the future!