Tryingtodothis wrote:

 

I am having the same problem, and have uploaded the reports.

But you haven't put links to them here, so we still have no way to help you.

I wonder why John never popped in...

Sorry, I missed this on the first go 'round, and this has been a fairly busy week for me. Finally catching up.

As Peter suggested, this is definitely font related. Try Larry's suggestion because it is easier, but I doubt it will help.

It appears that there is a problem of some sort with some font that you have. The hang takes place in the AdobeCoolType module, but we don't know what it is doing (or trying to do). Merely that it is stuck.

The general answer is to remove all your non-system fonts and confirm the problem is gone, and then add the fonts in by halves until you find which one is triggering the problem.

You might be able to narrow this down more easily if it only happens with certain InDesign documents (that contain certain fonts).

Are either of you well-versed in the Terminal? I could give you some recipes to try if none of the above work, bt it'll be a pain in the neck.

Oh, actually -- what happens if you package the document up (including fonts) and try it on another machine? Or is that not feasible (either because you cannot get it open for long neough to package it, or bceause you don't have another machine)?

Well, that's a pretty good bet that it's one of the fonts in your document, then. Try removing all of them except one and confirming that it still packages (with fonts).

You're welcome.

But of course, this behavior still isn't acceptable for InDesign in the face of problematic fonts. What can you tell us about the fonts?

The FontDoctor report said "These Bitmap Font files appear to be incompatible with this OS. "

Does this mean they are corrupt? I've been using them for years with no problem.

The Font Doctor manual says:

Bitmap Fonts

Mac OS X does not support older bitmap fonts (usually from System 6 and earlier). FontDoctor, however, does

support these older font formats and can update them for you.

This matches my recollection. Typically an old font would ship with a bitmap ("screen font") and then a postscript font. Under System 6 (wow, brings back memories), MacOS would use the screen font on the scren and the postscript to print. But starting with System 7, the bitmap font was ignored and the postscript (Type 1) font would be used on the screen and in print as well.

So as long as you have the Type 1 font, the bitmap should be superfluous.

Whether the bitmaps are causing the problem or not is a seperate question... they shouldn't be, but who knows?