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Opus pro4.5 XE

Clicked into a piece of text on a button, went to Quickbuild> Text> Insert Characters and selected an arrow from wingdings. No problem.

Except that every page of the app now shows a complete sheet of wingdings in a fetching white. Rather spoils the effect I'm trying to create!

Fortunately I saved the 'wingding' app under a different name. Reloaded it, and yes - there are the wingdings on every page!

EDIT: What's happened is that every piece of text in the app has been converted to windings!! AND the app that I thought was safe

Went to Tools> Options> Default font and reclicked on Comic Sans 12 and everythings turns to a font that looks nothing like Comic Sans. The button text that casued the problem is fine

I don't dare open the other five parallel apps I'm working on in case the same happens.

Any suggestions as to why, and solutions, greatfully received.

John

Backed everything up.

Switched off the computer and restarted.

Everything is back to normal

Strange. Still wonder if anyone has a suggestion for what caused this, temporary, scare.

John

I've had something similar happen when producing Opus Flex publications in Opus Pro 04. I've had a few occasions when changing a font upsets all the fonts in a publication until I close Opus down and start it up again. The fonts I use often have additional characters (diacritical marks for another language) that require insertion using the recent quickbuild tool or Windows charactermap.

You are not alone

Andrew

A habit picked up from using Director and Flash -- I always restart Opus at morning and afternoon coffee breaks, and reboot at lunchtime.
If anything seems not quite right with Opus behaviour, I close it and restart.
This will solve problems in many applications that sometimes don't quite feel right when you are using them, especially those apps that move a lot of stuff around in memory.
Some might disagree and say this is not necessary, but operating systems and applications interact in many ways and are not perfect
The amount of time you lose is insignificant, and it is good for your blood pressure.

cheers
Paul

Thanks Andrew and Paul.

Nice to know I'm not the only one who suffers attacks from gremlins

John

I do a lot of work not not only in Opus but several video editing apps and a flash type of program. I re-boot often and I know for a fact that it keeps me and the computer sane. If I forget I can just feel the impending doom coming. I encourage my wife to do so too, and when she remembers it keeps thing in order on her computer too. Maybe re-boot very 3 hours or so.
If I have a temporary lock up, glitch I don't like, or any print problem, I re-boot too. Like said before me it is a very little amount of time for a good fresh start. I know some people that act like it is criminal to have to re-boot and they will carry on with problems and a slow computer to save the 2 minutes for a re-boot.