Font kerning problem

I have style text off of the paste board, but when I move it onto the page area the leading visually increases, almost as if its double spaced; any ideas?
Thanks
Alistair

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Kerning will remain incorrect until ID is closed and relaunched.
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Our workaround is to always restart ID before working on a new document.
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I've been transferring documents from my old PC, and one of the things I did was to transfer a large library of fonts across.
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Problem sorted! Used Font Book to check all fonts and remove the dubious ones; found duplicates of Helvetica and Lucida Grande. Can't delete them using FontBook, so went into personal font library and removed them, then downloaded and ran FontNuke (http://www.jamapi.com/pr/fn/) to clear caches. Working fine now.
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I have to create images containing text with font kerning and anti-aliasing.
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sudo atsutil databases -remove
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~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office Font Cache (11)
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We have a manageable list so I just avoided using FontBook or Suitcase.
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