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#1 2008-01-26 6:44 pm
- btyo462
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Office 2004 - "Corrupt fonts". Um...no.
Hi all. A few weeks ago, I added a somewhat sizeable folder of fonts to my font library for work (about 1,500). Things ran smoothly for all of my apps (Photoshop, MS Office 2004, Flash, etc.) for the next week and a half until one day I tried opening Word...or any Office app for that matter. For some reason, the splash screen stays up and stuck in the "Optimizing font menu performance" process and just starts spitting messages at me telling me my fonts are corrupt. Oddly, all these "corrupt" fonts are only ones from that particular aforementioned folder and they are never any fonts with names starting with any letter before M. Additionally, I'm confident that these fonts aren't corrupt for two reasons. (1) They work flawlessly in any other apps and (2) they end up working just fine if I disable that entire collection before opening Word, then individually enable them via FontExplorer X. It seems that Office gets choked up when it gets to that particular spot in loading the font collection. Anyone have any tips? I don't want to have to disable an entire collection every time I open an Office app, so any input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a ton.
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#2 2008-01-26 10:41 pm
- D'Eyncourt
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Re: Office 2004 - "Corrupt fonts". Um...no.
You might try the suggestion given here by Art Busbey III:
The only one that really seems to work is to remove the Office application that 'detects' all the corrupt fonts. Look for the application called FontCacheTool (it is somewhere in the MS Office folder - just do a find) and pull it out (delete or move to desktop or whatever).
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#3 2008-01-27 8:33 am
- pottymouth
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Re: Office 2004 - "Corrupt fonts". Um...no.
Do you really need 1500 active fonts? That's a pretty ridiculous number. My first guess would be that Office is just choking.
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#4 2008-01-27 2:57 pm
- FutureDreamz
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Re: Office 2004 - "Corrupt fonts". Um...no.
1,500? 
could you PM me a link to any free ones that their license allows this?
Thanks for clicking.
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#5 2008-01-31 7:58 pm
- Light Speed
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Re: Office 2004 - "Corrupt fonts". Um...no.
You have too many fonts loaded and ofice uses live font viewing in dropdowns so that is causing the problem.
Try loading just the fonts you actually plan to work with.
I have about 2500 fonts but have put ones I actually use into sets that I use for different things. I have a pretty large set of about 300 fonts that I use during logo design and things like that and I have a core set that I use everyday which is closer to 75 fonts.
This allows me to turn off the fonts I don't need when I am not designing and makes my system happy 
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