Application compatibility

Photofont Start has been tested and found compatible with following applications: Adobe Illustrator CS for Windows, Adobe Illustrator CS2 for Windows, Adobe Illustrator CS3 for Windows, Adobe Illustrator CS4, Adobe Photoshop CS, Adobe Photoshop CS2, Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Photoshop CS4, Adobe Photoshop Elements 3, Adobe ImageReady CS, Adobe ImageReady CS2, Corel Draw 12, Corel Photo-Paint 12, Corel Painter IX, Jasc Paint Shop Pro 7/8/9, Corel Paint Shop Pro X. If your application is not listed but the application vendor claims that your application supports Photoshop plugins/filters, Photofont Start may be compatible with your applications, so you're welcome to try it out.

Photofont Start is not compatible with Adobe Illustrator for Mac, Adobe Fireworks CS3, Adobe Fireworks CS4, Macromedia Fireworks, Macromedia Freehand, ACDSystems Canvas / Deneba Canvas, Corel Painter Essentials 3.

Photofont Start has not been tested but may be compatible with Adobe PhotoDeluxe, Adobe PageMaker, CiEBV Photoline 32, Corel Photo House, imageN, IrfanView, Megalux Ultimate Paint, Microfrontier Color It, Microsoft Photodraw 2000, Micrografx Picture Publisher, Right Hemisphere Deep Paint, SPG Colorworks: WEB, Ulead Photo Impact, Ulead Gif Animator, Ulead PhotoExpress. Please let us know if you have found an application that works well with Photofont Start that is not yet listed here. Please also inform us about compatibility problems you have found.

Installing Photofont Start for Mac

The following sections summarize installation procedures for the most popular image editing applications on Mac OS X that Photofont Start is compatible with.

Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, ImageReady for Mac

Run the Photofont Start installer and follow the instructions on screen.

Note: When working with Photofont Start, we recommend to create a new layer (using the Layers palette) before applying the plugin.

Adobe Illustrator CS4 for Mac

Run the Photofont Start CS3 installer. After it completes, start Illustrator CS4, go to Preferences / Plug-ins & Scratch Disks, in the Plug-ins Folder section click on Choose and select the folder /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Plug-Ins/CS4/ and if does not exist, select the folder /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Plug-Ins/CS4/.

Note: When working with Photofont Start in Illustrator CS4 on Mac, we recommend to use the Rectangle Tool. Draw a rectangle (with no stroke and no fill) and apply the plugin. Illustrator CS2 supports transparency in photofonts even across different objects! You may observe one inconvenience with Photofont Start in Illustrator: when you draw a rectangle, run the plugin and set some text using a photofont, the text will not appear inside of the rectangle but outside it, offset by some distance to the top and left. We hope to fix this problem in a future release.

Note: If your application is not listed above but you know that it supports Photoshop plugins, please consult ThePluginSite.com for additional instructions on installing Photoshop-compatible plugins.

Installing Photofont Start for Windows

The following sections summarize installation procedures for the most popular image editing applications on Windows that Photofont Start is compatible with.

Adobe Photoshop 6 and later, Photoshop Elements, ImageReady for Windows

Run the Photofont Start installer. When the installer asks you for the folder, choose the Plug-ins (or Plugins) subfolder inside of the Photoshop, Photoshop Elements or ImageReady application folder. For Photoshop CS3, it would be typically c:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS3\Plug-ins\

Note: When working with Photofont Start, we recommend to create a new layer (using the Layers palette) before applying the plugin.

Adobe Illustrator CS-CS4 for Windows

Run the Photofont Start installer. When the installer asks you for the folder, choose the Plug-ins (or Plugins) subfolder inside of the Illustrator application folder. For Illustrator CS3, it would be typically c:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CS3\Plug-ins\

If you want to use the Photofont plugin in both Photoshop and Illustrator, install the plugin into the Photoshop plug-ins folder (see above). Then, in Illustrator go to Preferences / Plug-ins & Scratch Disks, in the Plug-ins Folder section click on Choose and select the Photoshop plug-ins folder.

Note: When working with Photofont Start in Illustrator CS-CS4 on Windows, we recommend to use the Rectangle Tool. Draw a rectangle (with no stroke and no fill) and apply the plugin. Illustrator CS2 supports transparency in photofonts even across different objects! You may observe one inconvenience with Photofont Start in Illustrator: when you draw a rectangle, run the plugin and set some text using a photofont, the text will not appear inside of the rectangle but outside it, offset by some distance to the top and left. We hope to fix this problem in a future release.

Corel Photo-Paint and Corel Draw for Windows

Run the Photofont Start installer. When the installer asks you for the folder, choose the Plugins subfolder inside of the Corel Graphics folder. For Corel Photo-Paint 12 and Corel Draw 12, it would typically be c:\Program Files\Corel\Corel Graphics 12\Plugins\

If you want to use the Photofont plugin in both Photoshop and in Corel Photo-Paint, install the plugin into the Photoshop plug-ins folder (see above). Then, in Corel Photo-Paint go to Tools / Options, select Workspace / Plug-Ins from the list box on the left, press the Add button and choose the location of the Photoshop plug-ins folder. Close the Options dialog and the plugins will appear in the Effects menu (in Photo-Paint) or Bitmaps / Plug-Ins (in Draw).

Note: Photofont Start in Corel Draw only works on bitmap objects. Either import a bitmap, or create any object and convert it to bitmap using Bitmaps / Convert to Bitmap. When converting to bitmap, choose RGB Color (24-bit). Corel Draw only supports transparency in photofonts within the same bitmap object.

Corel Painter for Windows

Run the Photofont Start installer. When the installer asks you for the folder, choose the Plugins subfolder inside of the Corel Painter folder. For Corel Painter IX, it would typically be c:\Program Files\Corel\Corel Painter IX\Plugins\

If you want to use the Photofont plugin both in Photoshop and in Painter:

• for Painter versions earlier than IX, install the plugin into the Photoshop plug-ins folder (see above). Then in Painter, choose Preferences > Plugins... from the Edit menu and select the folder where the 8bf files are located. After restarting Painter, the plugins will appear on the Effects menu.
• in Corel Painter IX, simply copy the contents of the FontLab subfolder from the Photoshop plug-ins folder into the Painter plug-ins folder.

Note: When working with Photofont Start, we recommend to create a new layer before applying the plugin.

Corel Paint Shop Pro / Jasc Paint Shop Pro for Windows

Run the Photofont Start installer. When the installer asks you for the folder, choose the PlugIns subfolder inside of the Paint Shop Pro folder. For Corel Paint Shop Pro X, it would typically be c:\Program Files\Corel\Corel Paint Shop Pro X\PlugIns\FontLab\

If you want to use the Photofont plugin in Photoshop and in Paint Shop Pro, install the plugin into the Photoshop plug-ins folder (see above). Then:

• in Corel Paint Shop Pro X and Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8-9, choose Preferences / File Locations from the File menu, select the Plug-ins item from the list box, press the Add button, press the Browse button and select the select the Photoshop plug-ins folder. After pressing two times OK, the plugin(s) will appear in the Plug-in Filters sub menu of the Effects menu.
• in Jasc Paint Shop Pro 7, choose Preferences / File Locations from the File menu, press the Plug-in Filters tab and select the Photoshop plug-ins folder. After pressing OK, the plugins will appear in the Plug-in Filters sub menu of the Effects menu.

Note: When working with Photofont Start, we recommend to create a new raster layer before applying the plugin.

Note: If your application is not listed above but you know that it supports Photoshop plugins, please consult ThePluginSite.com for additional instructions on installing Photoshop-compatible plugins.