Corrupt Fonts??

[Julia]

I have posted this problem in Apple's discussion site and for a short
while my problem was fixed, but now it is back.

I have a Power mac G4 with both system 9 and system 10.4. Few months
ago I installed Microsoft Word 2004 package. When I try to open a Word
application it wants to delete my fonts saying they are corrupt.

In my previous visit to Apple's discussion forum I was advised to
restart in system 9 and open the word application there. Then to close
the application, restart back to system 10 and problem should be fixed.
I did try this advise, and it did work, but my problem is back again
and I am not able to open any of office files in system 9

Thank you in advance for your help.

Julia

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Hi Julia,

This is a recurring problem, but there are other fixes to try, which should
work for a while. See the information here:
http://word.mvps.org/Mac/CorruptFontErrors.html

Thanks for reporting a new fix.

 

[jejennings]

Julia,

This problem has plagued me since I upgraded to Tiger and there appears
to be no solution in sight from either Microsoft or Apple. The result
is that I have all but abandoned Microsoft Offiece and consider my
considerable invest\\Jackment in this software to be wasted money.

When I MUST use Word, I use a utility "FontExplorer X" available free
from Linotype, I first clean the application font caches, then the
System font caches. Upon restart I can use any Office application
until the computer is shut down and again restarted, then the "font
corruption" bug reappears.

Jack

 

[jejennings]

Julia,

This problem has plagued me since I upgraded to Tiger and there appears
to be no solution in sight from either Microsoft or Apple. The result
is that I have all but abandoned Microsoft Offiece and consider my
considerable invest\\Jackment in this software to be wasted money.

When I MUST use Word, I use a utility "FontExplorer X" available free
from Linotype, I first clean the application font caches, then the
System font caches. Upon restart I can use any Office application
until the computer is shut down and again restarted, then the "font
corruption" bug reappears.

Jack