Windows: Error -30202

Windows: Out of Memory error

Issue

Fontographer crashes with a -30202 error or out of memory error in Windows NT, Windows 2000 or Windows XP

Reason

Macromedia Fontographer 4.1.x for Windows was created in 1995-96, at the time when the current operating system from Microsoft was Windows 95. Currently, the only version of Fontographer available for Windows is the ‘old’ 4.1.5. There are a number of compatibility problems that may prevent Fontographer 4.1.5 from working on Windows 2000 or XP.

Windows: error in FONTG410.DLL

Issue

Error message "fontog.exe caused error in FONTG410.DLL"

The error alert box may appear with the following error message: "This application has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down". It may be necessary to view the error log file in order to confirm that this error is caused by a DLL conflict. To view the log file, the hard drive can be searched for *.log and the log file can be searched for "FONTG410.DLL".

Reason

There is a DLL conflict and font registry problems may occur with some Microsoft products and Fontographer.

Solution

Microsoft Word

To use Microsoft Word and Fontographer, do the following:

• Run Microsoft Word before running Fontographer.
• Type some text in Microsoft Word and then select that text and change it to a different font. This allows Word to read the Windows font registry.
• Minimize the Microsoft application and then run Fontographer.

Microsoft Office

Try one or more of the following:

• Remove Microsoft Office Startup from the Startup menu.
• Restart the system after getting the "illegal operation" error.
• When two versions of Microsoft Office are installed, run both versions and minimize both.
• Use a third-party error handler.
  Two popular utilities are Ramgate and Norton Crashguard .
• If none of the above solutions work then reinstall Microsoft Windows because some Windows system resources may be corrupt.
  

Mac OS X issues

Fontographer 4.1.5 will not run in Mac OS X “native” mode, only in Mac OS 9 or in Mac OS Classic. However, in November 2005, Fontlab Ltd. released Fontographer 4.7 which is a native Mac OS X (10.2 or higher) application. We recommend the upgrade to all users of earlier versions of Fontographer.

Technotes

All users: Please also consult our comprehensive collection of technotes (in PDF format) that cover various technical issues for Fontographer. Note that many of the technotes only apply to the old 4.1 version and not to the current 4.7 version.

Will Fontographer install into Vista? 64-bit Vista?

Fontographer runs on WinXP. Problem is a memory management of this old program.

You have 2 options:

1. Remove DIMM(s) to reduce amount of virtual memory to <2GB
2. Patch the function ASI_SetMemoryLimits() in FONTG410.dll file to set the limit in software.
   
   Patch offset =  0x000812E8
Old data  = 00 00 00 00
New data = FF FF FF 7F