I know that on a PC, bad, poorly-written, or corrupt fonts will cause Titler to hang, or crash. Not sure how different fonts might be on a Mac. Could be the same, or totally different. This ARTICLE goes into some detail, but you might have to "read between the lines," as I wrote it for the PC.

Many Adobe programs, such as Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign, are very sensitive to fonts, and Titler is sensitive to another level.

Good luck,

Hunt

PS - If you narrow things down to a "bad" font (not one that is corrupt), please update this thread, and I will add that one to the article.

So have you done the other standard procedures when things get funky on a Mac...Trash Prefs and Repair Permissions ?

I did however manage to make the thing load when I started OS X in Safe Boot mode, as only the fallback fonts are loaded when in that mode.

Hm-m, sounds like a classic "bad font" issue, but I could be wrong.

Good luck,

Hunt

Jim,

Being a PC-only guy, I am obviously not familiar with that program, but have seen fonts that "passed muster" with some pretty good PC font repair tools, that still were written in such a way, that Titler crashed (can happen with Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator, but those programs seem to be more lenient, than Titler). In two cases, I just found that replacing them with a commercially available version, fixed things. Where the font was not corrupt, but still caused a crash, I have just found something similar commercially, and used that, instead. Some foundries just design better fonts, than others.

Good luck to the OP,

Hunt

Jim,

It's the same here. I do a DVD backup of my fonts, keeping the old ones (once were on CD's), just in case I have to re-install them. It also helps, when I get a new machine, due to all the fonts that I have bought, or collected over the years.

I use a font manager, so only ~ 350 are installed at any one time (unless I have a lot of different clients' Projects going at one time), so it is easy (or relatively so) to track a bad, or corrupt font on my system. If I load a client/Project font set, and get a crash, then I know that one of those is the culprit.

Going back some years, I ran Font Dr. (Extensis) on ALL of my fonts. Most were not loaded, and obviously, when they had been, I was working in less sensitive programs, as I was getting no crashes. There were a couple of dozen, that needed repair, but only ~ 12 (out of then many thousands), that could not be fixed, and I studied them, as much as I could, and just bought any, that I found useful. Some, I just deleted.

Hunt