On 10/11/02 10:07, Ward Oldham wrote >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) >
Hmm... I wish I remembered what I did. Luckily I wrote something down about it and saved it - here is what I had posted back to the list later (with some editing): >>I found another thread on the MacFixit Forums which stated that these are >>what Postscript font collections look like when looking at the fonts in >>Mac OS X. (actually they said that this is what suitcases look like). >>Well, I had some font suitcases which had been put together under Mac OS >>7 (or maybe 8) from a long, long time back. I put the suitcases (which >>had screen fonts) and what I guessed were their associated printer fonts >>into some folders, and stuffed them (so that they couldn't be found as >>fonts). I then ditched all the fonts, causing first the Classic layer to crash, >>and then causing the Finder to crash, and then causing myself to be >>logged out. After restarting - voila! no problems any more with terminal. >> >>What a waste of time. >> >>Bill The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be October 22 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
