Font Selection Glitch

Anyone experienceing a serious glitch in the font selection tool?
I've got a lot of fonts to scroll through (probably over 200) and halfway down the list (as I'm scrolling) the fonts suddenly dissapear. The menu panel becomes unresponsive and I can't switch to a new font.
Currently I CAN NOT work with ANY TEXT GRAPHICS because of this glitch.
Please help.

Thanks for the reply Tom. I went in to font book and checked for any corrupted fonts. Font book found a few fonts that threw out a 'caution'. I then deleted them.
I installed the most recent release of Final Cut, restarted, then created a new title graphic and have found the issue still exists.
Any other possible fixes?

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This control really only seems to exist in the inbuilt edit modes (eg: id plate and watermark) so I have tried a workround which seems to work OK so far. Maybe it will help someone else out working with webengines.
Mac/OSX only at this stage - good source file in Windows may be font.inf but would require a bit of parsing or get a folder listing somehow.
Basically I read in the contents of the fonts.list file - which appears in the OSX fonts folders - and then massage the contents to get a raw list of the fonts.
This raw list is then read into a lua table and consumed by the UI popup control.
Should there be an obvious way that I haven't seen then just give me time to find a banana to eat ... anyway here goes -
Changing the font type for the cell index numbers.
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Data Model references -   Note:   %s is important for select to work - if %q is used select will work but font won't change ( %q adds quotes to the string ).
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            ["nonCSS.itemNumberFontSize"] = 60,
            ["nonCSS.itemNumber.font"] = "inherit",
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        deffonts = templatepath .. "/pgresources/" .. 'osxdeffont.txt'      -- templatepath is the root path of the webengine - this is the tweaked OSX fonts.list file
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            local fileLines = io.lines( deffonts )
            ff3 = {}
            for line in io.lines(deffonts) do
Filter lines here ...
eg:   -
                line = string.sub(line, 17)   -- remove 1st 16 chrs        (/Library/Fonts//Osaka.ttf)
                line = string.gsub(line, "(.ttf)", "")
                local kline = line
                   local vline = line
                   table.insert(ff3, { title = kline ,value = vline })
            end
        end
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                title = "Font family :",
                bindingValue = "nonCSS.itemNumber.font",
                items = ff3,
                bindingEnabled = "appearance.itemNumber.display",   -- control should be disabled if display checkbox false
                tooltip = "Choose wisely Dave!",
Using this method is not perfect but gives a good selection of fonts - I found that to improve the success rate the default font file was copied into the webengine
resources folder and tweaked. eg: the default file gives Brush Script.ttf but I needed Brush Script MT to work, similarly with Arial Rounded Bold which needed changing
to Arial Rounded MT Bold
Basically to find the correct descriptions you could do far worse than to use the ones in the edit selections used by the ID Plate/watermarking features.
            Well there you go ...
As an aside I did try an undocumented control which on double click popped up a system font selection dialog (the whole nine yards) but couldn't get it to link to the css class so I didn't persist - not a good idea to use undocumented controls but can be fun to play with.
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        font = "Copperplate",     -- showed font as highlighted when picker opened.
        width = 80,
        value = "Arial",    -- appeared on control (title ??) - this value only changed according to the font selected after double-clicking on another hidden control (f:image_well)
        bindingValue = "nonCSS.itemNumber.font", -- linkage didn't work
Again, unless I missed it, it would be really good to have the font_picker documented and working for the web gallery views. Fonts seem to be a murky area -
probably accounts for the hassles I am getting with the watermarking feature as well.
Update :
If the font doesn't work try using the PostScript name as a value which invariably works.
eg: Handwriting - Dakota will not work but Handwriting-Dakota will.
     Arial Bold will not work but Arial-BoldMT will.

I don't think that there is any option to set the default view in the web album. If anyone has found an option to do this, then I will like to know as well.
Quite a lot of the settings in web album seams to be "hard coded" and only a few settings are available for users to control.
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Just clarifying:
Pages '09 has bad support for Hebrew, Arabic etc but will accept pasted text.
Pages 5 has much better support but with bugs.
If you have columns they are in the wrong order ie Text starts in the left column and ends in the right column.
If you type English into Hebrew text it tends to fall in the wrong position eg instead of to the left of Hebrew punctuation it goes to the right.
As Tom recommends the only real solution on the Mac is Mellel.
Peter
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I found from the versions I had 2.21.12-1 was also good. 2.21.14-2 was the next version which was bad.
For reference the most up to date version at the time, which I was originally using, is 2.21.15-1.
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