Odd problem with text boxes

[Burncycle95]

I an new to MAC's and ILL but am haveing the following problem. I have 2 MAC's both useing CS2. My files are stored on Mac 1. Recently if a file is edited on Mac 1, saved and then opened on Mac 2, anything that was not edited on Mac 1 works fine. Anything that was edited on Mac 1 (text) acts very strange when opened on Mac 2. If I am on Mac 2 and I try to resize a text box by clicking and draging to the right by just 1/2 inch the text skews way far to the right even off of the screen. At this point if I move my mouse to the left to bring it back it just keeps going to the right getting larger, after a certain point no matter which way I move my mouse the text box comes back to the left and shrinks to a dot.

Also if use the selection tool and click on a text box to edit the text, even tho the cursor is to the right of the last letter, what I type appears to the left of the first letter. If I highlight a text box that was edited by Mac 1 and attempted to delete it, illustrator crashes.

It seems that this problem only exists in files that have color in them. I can open and edit files that are all black and white on either Mac and they work fine.

Any ideas?

 

[jmgalvin]

You might try copying the preferences from one machine to the other so everything is the same, whcihever is giving yu sess trouble.

Quit AI and go to user/library/preferences and make a copy of "com.adobe.illustrator.plist" Move that to the other machine and remve the word "copy" from the title. Or you can drag teh folder between machines if you're fully sharing both. It might behoove you to also move the Illustrator Setting folder in the user/library/preferences.

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4

 

[Burncycle95]

Ok I will try that. Thank you. Also I tried removeing all the fonts form library/fonts and applications/fonts but that did not help. Is there another font folder somewhere? I am thinking that maybe on of the macs has a font that the other doesn't or maybe they have different versions of the same font. Does this sound plauseable?

 

[jmgalvin]

There might be if you did not move them. Hard drive/library/application support/Adobe. There's a fonts folder there.

Whatever you do, DO NOT remove the "req'd" folder in that fonts folder. They're necessary for thevarious apps to work. The others can be moved. I did that long ago.

You could also have a corrupted font cache. In finder go to Find and search for "fnt". Use Name conatains as the parameter. You can trash anything the comes up with the ".lst" extension. OSX uses font caches so the main font file is not damaged in case of a program crash, etc. When you trashes caches, new ones are created as a font is used.

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4