Everytime try to add txt Paint Shop Closes

Hi,

When I open a file in PSP 7 and try to add text, suddenly now it immediately 
shuts down the whole program.  I have uninstalled and reinstalled the 
program.  I have even created a "new image" and attempted to add text
and 
the same thing happens.  Does anybody have any ideas why this is 
happening....any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Lisbet 

Lisbet Liepart wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> When I open a file in PSP 7 and try to add text, suddenly now it
immediately
> shuts down the whole program.  I have uninstalled and reinstalled the
> program.  I have even created a "new image" and attempted to add
text and
> the same thing happens.  Does anybody have any ideas why this is
> happening....any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

The most likely explanation is that you recently downloaded or
acquired a font that is badly formed. Each time PSP tries to
use the Text tool it encounters the font and crashes because of
an error in the font definition. Unfortunately, it is not easy
to identify which font is causing the problem if there is not
an obvious candidate that you recently installed. One way to
find the font is to temporarily copy half of the fonts in your
Windows Fonts folder into another folder. If the problem persists
after this then the bad font is still in your Fonts folder. If
the problem is gone then the bad font is among those you moved.
Halve again whichever group of fonts contains the bad actor and
repeat the test. Keep doing this until you can finally divide
and conquer enough to identify the font that is the bad actor.

Fred Hiltz wrote:
> 
> Lisbet Liepart wrote:
> > When I open a file in PSP 7 and try to add text, suddenly now
> > it immediately shuts down the whole program...
> 
> This is almost always due to a corrupt font.

> If you cannot identify and remove the
> recent addition, the best approach is to move half the fonts out of
> Windows\Fonts to a safe place, see whether the trouble goes away,
> cut the bad half in half again, re-test and so on to pinpoint the
> bad one.

Great minds think alike or, er ..., fools seldom differ :)

Lisbet Liepart wrote:
> When I open a file in PSP 7 and try to add text, suddenly now
> it immediately shuts down the whole program...

This is almost always due to a corrupt font. Have you added any 
fonts recently or installed any program that might have added some? 
PSP is very fragile when it interprets the drawing instructions in a 
font file, crashing when it should advise us of the bad font, 
substitute another, and continue.

You do not have to actually use the bad font, as PSP loads them all 
for its drop-down font list. If you cannot identify and remove the 
recent addition, the best approach is to move half the fonts out of 
Windows\Fonts to a safe place, see whether the trouble goes away, 
cut the bad half in half again, re-test and so on to pinpoint the 
bad one.
-- 
Fred Hiltz,  fhiltz at yahoo dot com 

Trev wrote:
> 
> Spandex Rutabaga wrote:
> > Fred Hiltz wrote:
> >>
> >> Lisbet Liepart wrote:
> >>> When I open a file in PSP 7 and try to add text, suddenly now
> >>> it immediately shuts down the whole program...
> >>
> >> This is almost always due to a corrupt font.
> >
> >> If you cannot identify and remove the
> >> recent addition, the best approach is to move half the fonts out
of
> >> Windows\Fonts to a safe place, see whether the trouble goes away,
> >> cut the bad half in half again, re-test and so on to pinpoint the
> >> bad one.
> >
> > Great minds think alike or, er ..., fools seldom differ :)
> 
> I was thinking it the last one used or maybe was in a image that was
edited
> and is no longer on the computer.
> But I forget how to reset psp 7 to the default install

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