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[mailed and posted]

"Rob Harle" <rkh23@hermes.cam.ac.uk> writes:

>Well, basically, the fonts randomly become corrupted, and totally illegible
>during an office session.  Closing the app reveals that the entire Win95 has
>been corrupted, with all type unreadable.  It looks as if the fonts are
>still there, because I can see small parts of the letters, and they can be
>highlighted, changed, and printing is fine etc.

Do you have the TrueType font "MT SORTS" (or "Monotype Sorts") installed
on your system?  If so, remove it (by dragging it from the FONTS control
panel to the Desktop), reboot the system, and see if problem goes away.
(If not, just drag it back from the Desktop to the FONTS control panel.)

Certain versions of this font file (I've seen conflicting information
about which ones) send the TrueType glyph rendering engine out of
its tree, producing the symptoms you describe.  The symptoms can occur
even if no application uses the font; the mere presence of the file
in the C:\WINDOWS\FONTS folder is enough to trigger the failure.

Joe Morris