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Subject: FileMaker Pro font problem?
From: Mike Lee, mikelee@oregon.uoregon.edu
Date: 8 Dec 1992 17:31:52 GMT

In article <mikelee-081292091652@fp1-pubs-7.uoregon.edu> Mike Lee,
mikelee@oregon.uoregon.edu writes:
>After moving my fonts to an external hard disk (linking with Suitcase),
>FileMaker Pro now hangs on startup. I can get it to run by closing the
font
>suitcases, starting it, and then reopening the suitcases -- but does
anyone
>have a less cumbersome solution?

I experienced similar crashes once. The reason was a corrupted font 
suitcase.

>This problem only happens when the font suitcases are not on the startup
>hard disk, and only with FileMaker Pro. (My other applications have no
>problem with the font location.) The obvious solution is to move the
fonts
>back to the startup disk, but I like them where they are, and I don't
want
>to move them back unless I have no alternative.
>
>By the way, what is the "Claris Fonts" file that FileMaker Pro creates
when
>it runs? Does this have anything to do with my problem?

FilemakerPro (as well as other Claris programs) display the items in the 
font menu in their real typeface, not in Chicago. The data needed to
accomplish this is stored in the "Claris Fonts" file.

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Stephan Bublava                          stephan@iguwnext.tuwien.ac.at