Re: Word 2004 + Macintel + Some Adobe OpenType Fonts = Crash on save

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Hi All, I'm having the same problem! It's great to find a thread about
this and know that I'm not crazy. I couldn't find any information
online when I first had the problem back in February, and a call to
Apple was completely unhelpful. They just blamed it on the font
manufacturer. I initially had the problem with the Postscript font DIN.
I subsequently duplicated the problem with other Postscript fonts. My
company actually purchased the OpenType version of DIN hoping it would
resolve the problem (as Word didn't seem to have problems with several
free OpenType fonts we tested). Well, it turns out we have the same
problem with the OpenType version of DIN; it does show up as type
OpenType-Postscript in Font Book, like the other fonts mentioned on
this thread. What's a little strange is the problem occurs with
DIN-Light but not with DIN-Regular, or at least it doesn't seem to.
Also, when I first had the problem several months ago, I found like
other posters that some documents had the problem and others didn't. I
thought I had narrowed it down to only documents with embedded images.
But reading in this thread that others have found a connection between
the number of characters and Word freezing on Save, I'm thinking maybe
it has to do with the actual size of the Word doc (i.e. in kilobytes).
That would also explain why the number of characters required to
trigger this issues seems to be inconsistent for different users.
Anyway, those are my two cents. I look forward to some sort of
resolution to this issue, as it's causing us some pretty serious
problems; basically every document we produce in our business uses the
DIN font.

Thanks to everyone for this thread and all the helpful suggestions!

Best,
Adam

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