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Please help! My fonts have been turned into XML files!
Posted by jazzsammich in
26 Jun 2009 — 5:45pm
26 Jun 2009 — 5:45pm
Hello everybody --
I went to my computer today to do some work and found that a substantial chunk of my typeface library -- approximately 1,800 fonts -- had been turned into .xml files and hidden in the "Jaws" folder of Quark XPress. I have no idea how or when or why this happened, and I have no idea how to fix it. Any and all advice is greatly appreciated.
--Jim K.
PS: Or possibly they had been deleted and the .xml files are left over from something else?? I really have no clue here. :(
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26 Jun 2009 — 5:58pm
System? Hardware? OS? hard to diagnose without the platform at least.
Do you use a font manager (I assume you do, with that many fonts)? Do you have a recent backup?
Sounds like your file directory(ies) may be screwed up -- bigger problem than just your fonts. Try disk utility(s) and see if that works, or at least finds a problem.
26 Jun 2009 — 6:00pm
Not a lot of info to run off of (no system specs) - but can you think of anything that has recently changed on your computer system? Any new applications installed? Any recent updates? Font files don't turn into XML without a reason. Can you open the XML files with a text-editor? Don't save them after opening them but take a look and see if you can see anything of interest. Isn't Jaws the not-officially-licensed-post-script-renderer? Maybe Jaws is converting the fonts - you might check your settings in Quark for that. Also use a web search to see if anybody else has run into something similar.
At any rate, good luck and I hope you can figure out what's happening and how to recover from it.
26 Jun 2009 — 6:43pm
I'm running Mac OS X v. 10.4.1. Disk Utility doesn't spot any problems. Opening one of the xml files shows something like the following:
/Gentium (%psfont%Gentium) (r) file << /ResourceType /sfnt
>> /ResourceDecode filter
definesfntfontset 0 get definefont pop
...which says to me that this wasn't a conversion but that it was left over from some other processes, and the fonts have been deleted somehow.
:(
Thanks for your help anyway,
--Jim