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Troubleshooting corrupted fonts

At the start-up of the Editor it sometimes occurs that the Editor crashes with a GFontManager error at start-up. This is causes by a font that can’t be processed. Below how to locate the font that causes the problem.

MacOS X:
In order to find and further remove the corrupted fonts, you have the possibility to run the Editor application into the console Terminal:

[…]/Contents/MacOS/[suite name]\ Editor -loglevel 5

This will generate a list of found fonts and loaded fonts, as seen below:

[Debug] FontManager : Loading System Faces
[Debug] FontManager : found font ‘AppleBraille-Outline6Dot’
[Debug] FontManager : found font ‘AppleBraille-Outline8Dot’
[Debug] FontManager : found font ‘AppleBraille-Pinpoint6Dot’
[Debug] FontManager : found font ‘AppleBraille-Pinpoint8Dot’
[Debug] FontManager : found font ‘MyanmarSangamMN’
[Debug] FontManager : found font ‘Sathu’
[Debug] FontManager : found font ‘Silom’
[Debug] FontManager : loading TrueType font ‘/Library/Fonts/AlBayan.ttf’
[Debug] FontManager : loading TrueType font ‘/Library/Fonts/AlBayanBold.ttf’
[Debug] FontManager : loading TrueType collection ‘/Library/Fonts/AmericanTypewriter.ttc’
[Debug] FontManager : loading TrueType font ‘/Library/Fonts/Andale Mono.ttf’
[Debug] FontManager : loading TrueType font ‘/System/Library/Fonts/Apple Braille Outline 6 Dot.ttf’
[Debug] FontManager : loading TrueType font ‘/System/Library/Fonts/Apple Braille Outline 8 Dot.ttf’
[Debug] FontManager : loading TrueType font ‘/Library/Fonts/华文宋体.ttf’
[Debug] FontManager : loading TrueType font ‘/Library/Fonts/华文楷体.ttf’
[Debug] FontManager : loading TrueType font ‘/Library/Fonts/华文细黑.ttf’
[Debug] FontManager : loading TrueType font ‘/Library/Fonts/华文黑体.ttf’
[Debug] FontManager : Finished System Faces

The loaded fonts also contain the path of the fonts. This should enable finding the corrupted font(s).

This log is shown in Console under “All Messages” log and can be filtered on the keyword “FontManager”.
Updated on May 19, 2022

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