matt
Fri Nov 18 16:56:00 CST 2005
Steve Basile <steve@xebrawerx.com> wrote:
> Here's a separate problem with the same Mac using Entourage and OS X Tiger
> on an iMac G5.
>
> Entourage's "Database Daemon" would consistently lock up when Entourage was
> launched. No way to avoid it.
>
> After reinstalling and updating Entourage the problem persisted. Suspecting
> fonts I went in to FontBook and turned off all the foreign language fonts.
> From that point forward the program works fine.
>
> Are there known problems between Entourage and OS X Tiger's foreign language
> fonts?
Not exactly, but fonts are a notorious source of problems throughout Mac
OS X, and Office just makes it worse because of it adds its own layer of
font caching. You may have turned off a bad or conflicting font, or
maybe just changing the font situation caused things to be recached. m.
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