[Fwd: Intel MAC crashing with EXC_BAD_ACCESS errors]

[Steve Mills]

On Sep 14, 2007, at 00:10:41, Chris Denesha wrote:

> Ok, this is interesting.  I decided to install C8 and update to  
> 8.0.1. I repaired permissions - where most of the fonts I had been  
> messing with  had their permissions repaired. :)  I thought  Aha!,  
> and launched C8.  Created a new doc, and ran the 'Display All  
> TypeFaces' script.  Crash.
>
> Then I realized I had not rebooted.  Now neither C7 and C8 is  
> crashing.  Hmm..
>
> Do you mind looking at the log of my C8 crash anyway, and helping  
> me interpret it??  Does it look font related?

Everything above DrawCFStringGuts (line 15 in thread 0) is OS code.  
Text is attempting to be measured before drawing it into a popup  
control, but something has hosed the fonts or just memory in general.

One thing I don't see in the things you've tried is throwing out the  
font cache folder /Library/Caches/com.apple.ATS/ and rebooting.

One final thing: Display All Typefaces was removed from our  
installers quite some time ago because some 3rd party code had a bug  
that could cause crashes when too many glyphs in too many fonts had  
been displayed. If you need a WYSIWYG font list printed out, either  
do it in batches or use another app. There are quite a few freeware  
apps that do just that.

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