X8 Font Issues

Already tried that. Shows the same 11 fonts.

Hard tour! New re-install of windows 10.

You don't have to reinstall windows, there are simpler ways to achieve this. But it requires manual registry changes.

thanks a lot; its working now; if you want, you can access my system

With the IMMENSE help of Sanjeev Narang, I believe we found the root problem.

I believe that crash is caused by Type 1 fonts installed as link from a location with a very long path. For example, In Sanjeev's case, the font ZapfDingbats was installed from a path like this : "C:\Users\grapi\AppData\Local\Extensys\Suitcase Fusion\Suitcase Fusion.fontvault\SB\L\PS\INTARNATIONAL TYPEFACE CORP\ZAPFDINGBATS\001.004\1345771107\ZAPFDINGBATS.PFM"

So anyone who has that crash, check your installed fonts for a Type1 font link. Delete the links and then see if that addresses the issue. This would not affect fonts installed normally : only Type1 installed as link.

UPDATE : On some Operating System : YOU WILL NOT SEE that Type1 are installed as links. I'd recommend to uninstall them all and then reinstall them via CFM or via windows.

Hi Claude

I don't know where you got the long path, if you typed it in or cut and paste but there is a typo    Intarnational   I believe  is supposed to be International so it may be a bad path that is the problem I haven't tested.

Ross Blair

I intentionally modified the path in an attempt to preserve Sanjeev's privacy.

Anyway, Sounds like this issues will affect most people using or that used Suitcase Fusion to install Type1 fonts. Suitcase Fusion seems to be using a very complicated folder hierarchy to store its fonts.

Now that we know what the problem is, we will be able to address it. I do not know when it will be addressed however as I do not make these decisions. But I would recommend to put it in SP1 at the very least if not in an hot fix.

Pogo had the same Type1 issue but it was worse for him because those Type1 fonts would not even show up under the windows\fonts folder.

I had to manually edit the registry to take them out.

So you might have to run regedit.exe, locate the key : "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Type 1 Installer\Type 1 Fonts"

and delete any entries in there that have long paths : or remove everything. This will not remove the actual files.

Then reboot the system to make those changes into effect and launch CFM : it should be ok then. (if not launch with F8 down and reset the database).

Then you can use CFM to reinstall Type1 files properly.

Thanks to Claude my font issue is now fixed.

I'm having the same issue. Did anyone find a solution? Claude I ran though your suggestion above and nothing changed. 

I now see some replies that I didn't see before. I'll try a few of those suggestions too.

How do you remove type 1 fonts without going to registry....Thanks