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  • Excessive fonts bug out the font selector drop down

    Posted by Keith Koby on July 20, 2015 at 4:32 pm

    Does anyone else see an issue where the fonts selector drop down menu in the inspector goes blank and/or has issues displaying all of the fonts?

    We see this on computers where the user has installed a large number of fonts. It is not a problem on a computer with only a few user fonts installed.

    FCPX 10.2.1

    Keith Koby
    Sr. Director Post-Production Engineering
    iNDEMAND

    Doug Metz
    replied 11 years, 2 months ago
    4 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Noah Kadner

    July 20, 2015 at 6:57 pm

    Not sure how many you mean by excessive but you might be running into RAM limit issues depending on the quantity.

    Noah

    FCPWORKS – FCPX Workflow
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  • Bill Davis

    July 20, 2015 at 7:08 pm

    Also, fonts are an area where its super easy to get a rogue bad file – particularly if like me, you’ve been computing for a long, long time and have accumulated a mountain of fonts from a huge variety of font development eras. After all, who knows when I’m going to need to create a ransom note – and only the original San Francisco bit-mapped aesthetic will do!

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  • Doug Metz

    July 21, 2015 at 1:11 pm

    [Bill Davis] “Also, fonts are an area where its super easy to get a rogue bad file – particularly if like me, you’ve been computing for a long, long time and have accumulated a mountain of fonts from a huge variety of font development eras. “

    This point cannot be overstated. Fonts can cause big trouble in a heartbeat…
    I think your first step is to verify and / or repair every font on the affected system(s). Will probably clear up peculiarities with other apps as well – just watch out for that Microsoft Office font folder!

    Doug Metz

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