Hi Bill, Well, I can confirm that I don?t have any of those weird numbered fonts on my system. Getting rid of them should be easy provided that you are logged in as root, otherwise your user font folder may be the only folder you can manipulate. I?d be curious what utilities like Font Doctor or Font Agent would report. Also, font problems manifest themselves quickly when running Office X (the apps will launch and immediately quit). Having Console running in the background will generate detailed feedback specific to font irregularities if damaged fonts are the root of your problems.
Ward Oldham (I apologize for the broken thread. I?m not clear what?s going on here but apparently Glenn Hoehler forwarded this to me) On 10/10/2002 10:03 PM, "Glenn" <glenn at insightbb.com> wrote: > > ---------- > From: Bill Rising <brising at Louisville.edu> > Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 14:25:14 -0400 > To: "MacUser Group" <macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > Subject: MacGroup: font troubles > > Hey Folks! > > I had to reinstall Mac OS X b/c my system partition got corrupted. > > After finishing the install, I symlinked /Users back over to the old > /Users which I had on my data partition. > > Now I'm having *severe* trouble using Terminal. Launching Terminal causes > ATSServer to use up huge amounts of resources. In fact, any application > which needs to get font info does the same (including web browsers). > > The Macfixitforums claim that this is a symptom of bad fonts (even though > the fonts I use are the same as the ones *before* I reinstalled, I think). > > When I look in the font lists, for example, in TextEdit, I see fonts like > --font8335-- (there are about 140 of these thingies). Anybody know what > these fonts are, and how I can get rid of them? I'm suspecting that they > could be part of the problem. > > Thanks in advance, > > Bill > (P.S. having separate data and system partitions saved me completely, > since OS X allows wiping out a single partition on a harddrive without > having to wipe out the whole hard drive.) > > The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be August 27. > For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of > activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>. > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20021011/4fd0ac20/attachment.html
