Keep needed to trash Prefs

[rande]

Thats it. I don't use it alot but seems to get it to work I need to trash the prefs folder.
Just today, tried to open a file in 6.5 couldn't so I closed it.
Drug the file to QX7 starts to open then quits.
Tried opening just QX without the file; same thing.
Trash the prefs; fine.
Why would this keep happening?
Is there something wrong?
thanks

 

[beermonster]

i've heard of similar and corrupt fonts caused it

 

[rande]

I'm not a font expert. I notice when I had to redo a job from quark into Indd that the font were different.
In these new systems it seems there are fonts everywhere and Quark has Jaw dealing with fonts.
My question is, are there quark fonts that it defaults to that might be corrupted or is it using the fonts I have loaded in suitcase fusion? I had the same font loaded when I rebuilt the job in Indd. Can you shed any light on this for me?
thanks for the response.

 

[beermonster]

does that font software have some kind of "doctor" to scan and repair fonts? run that over system and installed fonts - see if that helps

i dont use that font software - have a go at bypassing the font software and installing straight into system (users>library>fonts) - see if that helps - its helped me a few times - some fonts just dont want to play with font software

if fonts are different from one to another its possibly safe to assume they use different fonts - i'd make sure you are in fact using the correct versions each time - just in case ya missed something.

as for which fonts quack or indy are using - thats tough without sitting at your machine - sorry.

ohh - and while we think about "maintenance" (kind of) do a cache clean (i use onyx), use font finagler if poss, repair permissions and start afresh

good luck - hope this helps in some small way

 

[Lsmith3280]

this happened to me on a lot of files over time. You can try the following:
open the file. Reduce the file to "thumbnail".
Open a new file, reduce the file to view in "thumbnail".
Carry over the "old file" to the new file.
See if that works.
If it doesn't, try this:
Open the file.
Review all fonts being used in the file.
Open a new file page.
drag one element at a time to the new file and try to print it.
Drag each piece until the same error occurs.
When that happens, you will know whether you have a corrupt font or piece of art.
Hope this helps.