[softwarelist] Re: OvationPro intermittent crashes?

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          Paul Vigay <lists-nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I /think/ I may have found a cause of Louie's random crashes but I'm a bit
> puzzled so wonder if anyone else who's been having odd crashes with OvPro
> might be able to shed some light on.....?
> 
> I've located what appears to be a corrupted font on the Iyonix, which
> although it appears to display ok, has none the less resulted in no crashes
> so far, since I moved it out of the !Fonts directory.
> 
> It was the "Walrod" font (originally from Harry Decker I think). I removed
> it a couple of days ago and Louie says the machine has not crashed since,
> so I wonder if something odd about this font was causing problems?
> 
> Viewing it in !FontEd displayed a weird 'blob' obscuring part of the "A"
> character (although A appeared fine on screen!!). Using FontEd, I've now
> corrected the font so that it appears and loads correctly into FontEd so I
> may re-install and see if the crashes reappear or anything.
> 
> However, I was wondering if anyone else with the Walrod font is suffering
> from the odd, unexpected crash - in which case it might be worth also
> removing it to see if any improved reliability is observed.....

I don't have the Walrod font but I occasionally get OvPro crashing.

Using:
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Iyonix PC with RISC OS 5.11 rel 3 and 512MB memory
Ovation Pro 2.77 20 Jan 2007

All for now.
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