Allan Atherton wrote: >Tony LaFemina <remacs at optonline.net> wrote: > >>Allan Atherton wrote: >> >>>What should I do about corrupted fonts in Word? >>>I am using Word X under OS 10.2.1 >>> >>I don't think you have corrupted fonts. I thing the program is getting >>bogged down. Try allocating more memory to it in 10M increments and see >>what happens. If it goes back to normal, you're going to have to see >>what useless information it's storing that's causing it to get so heavy. >> > >I have 768MB of RAM, and OSX gives each application all the memory it wants, >on the fly, depending on whether the application is resting or working. So I >doubt that I have a memory problem. >Allan Atherton > You may be right, but I'm not familiar with native OS X software. I'm still using 8.6. Pre OS X, software programs have 2 heap zones. When they collide, it don't matter if you have a zillion megs of RAM. You have to quit the program and restart it. If you want to avoid the problem, you give the program more memory. If the new software works differently, then it depends on how the programmers set up the work area in the program that determines how memory is allocated.
Another thing you can look at is, compare the number of fonts to the number of lines in the Font menu. Maybe that will give you a clue to what's going on. -- Tony LaFemina Major in Layout & Design Techniques Minor in Software Fundamentals http://hometown.aol.com/visitmacland/index.html mailto:remacs at optonline.net The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
