info-mac@uw-beaver (info-mac) (11/17/84)
From: Mark Zimmerman <mex101@mitre> My wife experienced similar troubles with only a couple of fonts. Disk spins forever (almost), takes forever to respond to mouse, etc. Troubles seemed to be associated with use of multiple big fonts on the same line, as the MacWrite document got too large. We finally decided that the system was swapping fonts on/off disk as memory became too tight. Solution was to edit the font causing the trouble (her personal variant of Cairo with additional musical notation in it) to cut down its size, and to split the document so that MacWrite wasn't so crowded. Otherwise, exotic font characters would show up in default font at random times, when the disk wasn't wearing itself out.