Adobe Photoshop CS Text Tool Error

If you receive the following message when trying to enter some text on a image

 “Could not complete your request because something prevented the text engine from being initialized.”

then try Resetting the Tool. You can find that option next to the tool. If it didnt work, try to allocate more RAM as photoshop is highly resource consuming.

After all the tries, if the text tool still gives error, try to delete all the extra fonts you installed in the system and keep only the fonts required by the system. You can follow the below guide for that.

List of Windows Fonts

Microsoft Windows 2000	Microsoft Windows NT	Microsoft Windows XP
Arial Arial Black Arial Bold Arial Bold Italic Arial Italic Comic Sans MS Comic Sans MS Bold Courier 10,12,15 Courier New Courier New Bold  Courier New Bold Italic  Courier New Italic Georgia Georgia Bold Georgia Bold Italic Georgia Italic Impact Lucida Console  Lucida Sans Unicode Microsoft Sans Serif Modern MS Sans Serif 8,10,12,14,18,24 MS Serif 8,10,12,14,18,24 Palatino Linotype Palatino Linotype Bold Palatino Linotype Bold Italic Palatino Linotype Italic Roman Script Small Fonts Symbol Symbol 8,10,12,14,18,24 Tahoma Tahoma Bold Times New Roman Times New Roman Bold Times New Roman Bold Italic Times New Roman Italic Trebuchet MS Trebuchet MS Bold Trebuchet MS Bold Italic Trebuchet MS Italic Verdana Verdana Bold Verdana Bold Italic Verdana Italic Webdings WingDings	Arial Arial Bold Arial Bold Italic Arial Italic Courier 10,12,15 Courier New Courier New Bold Courier New Bold Italic Courier New Italic Lucida Console Modern MS Sans Serif 8,10,12,14,18,24 MS Serif 8,10,12,14,18,24 Roman Script Small Fonts Symbol Symbol 8,10,12,14,18,24 Times New Roman Times New Roman Bold Times New Roman Bold Italic Times New Roman Italic WingDings	Arial Arial Black  Arial Bold  Arial Bold Italic  Arial Italic  Comic Sans MS  Comic Sans MS Bold Courier 10,12,15  Courier New  Courier New Bold Courier New Bold Italic  Courier New Italic  Estrangelo Edessa  Franklin Gothic Medium  Franklin Gothic Medium  Italic  Gautami  Georgia  Georgia Bold  Georgia Bold Italic  Georgia Italic Impact  Latha  Lucida Console  Lucida Sans Unicode  Microsoft Sans Serif  Modern MS Sans Serif 8,10,12,14,18,24  MS Serif 8,10,12,14,18,24  Mv Boli  Palatino Linotype  Palatino Linotype Bold  Palatino Linotype Bold Italic  Palatino Linotype Italic  Roman  Script  Small Fonts  Symbol  Symbol 8,10,12,14,18,24  Tahoma  Tahoma Bold  Times New Roman  Times New Roman Bold  Times New Roman Bold Italic  Times New Roman Italic  Trebuchet MS  Trebuchet MS Bold  Trebuchet MS Bold Italic  Trebuchet MS Italic  Tunga  Verdana  Verdana Bold  Verdana Bold Italic Verdana Italic  Webdings  WingDings  WST_Czech  WST_Engl  WST_Fren  WST_Germ  WST_Ital  WST_Span  WST_Swed
Microsoft Windows 95	Microsoft Windows 98	Microsoft Windows ME
Arial Arial Bold Arial Italic Arial Bold Italic Courier Courier New Courier New Bold Courier New Italic Courier New Bold Italic Modern MS Sans Serif MS Serif Smallfonts Symbol Times New Roman Times New Roman Bold Times New Roman Italic Times New Roman Bold Italic Wingdings	Abadi MT Condensed Light Arial Arial Black Arial Bold Arial Bold Italic Arial Italic Book Antiqua Calisto MT Century Gothic Century Gothic Bold Century Gothic Bold Italic Century Gothic Italic Comic San MS Comic San MS Bold Copperplate Gothic Bold Copperplate Gothic Light Courier Courier New Courier New Bold Courier New Italic Courier New Bold Italic Courier 10, 12, 15 Impact Lucida Console Lucida Handwriting Italic Lucida Sans Italic Lucida Sans Unicode Marlett Matisse ITC Modern MS Sans Serif MS Serif MS Sans Serif 8, 10, 12, 14, 18, 24 MS Serif 8, 10, 12, 14, 18, 24 News Gothic MT News Gothic MT Bold News Gothic MT Italic OCR A Extended Smallfonts Symbol Symbol 8, 10, 12, 14, 18, 24 Tahoma Tahoma Bold Tempus Sans ITC Times New Roman Times New Roman Bold Times New Roman Bold Italic Times New Roman Italic Verdana Verdana Bold Verdana Bold Italic Verdana Italic Webdings Westminster	Arial Arial Alternative Regular Arial Alternative Symbol Arial Black Arial Bold Arial Bold Italic Arial Italic Comic San MS Comic San MS Bold Courier 10, 12, 15 Courier New Courier New Bold Courier New Italic Courier New Bold Italic Impact Lucida Console Marlett MS Sans Serif 8, 10, 12, 14, 18, 24 MS Serif 8, 10, 12, 14, 18, 24 Smallfonts Symbol Symbol 8, 10, 12, 14, 18, 24 Tahoma Tahoma Bold Times New Roman Times New Roman Bold Times New Roman Bold Italic Times New Roman Italic Trebuchet Trebuchet Bold Trebuchet Bold Italic Trebuchet Italic Verdana Verdana Bold Verdana Bold Italic Verdana Italic Webdings Westminster