Greetings again folks.

Thanks to the kind respondents for their thoughts. As diagnosed by Pieter
Geert van den Beukel, the problem was that the ArcView  fonts had (for some
reason or other) not properly installed into the winnt\fonts directory.
Copying, then deleting the existing ESRI fonts from that directory, then
re-installing them solved the problem. Other suggestions and comments are
below the original question below .

cheers

JohnL.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Lowry
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 3:28 PM
> To:   'arcview-l@esri.com'
> Subject:      Assertion error
>
> Greetings,
>
> Has anyone else come across the following message, and more to the point
> does anyone know how to fix it / get rid of it ? I have a quick look at
> the archive on the ESRI Knowledge base, but this particular error message
> does not appear to be
> there :
>
>
> Assertion "Status ==1" failed at line 213 of file "..\sym\nfontc"
>
>
> At the moment, this message pops up anytime I go into a view in a project
> with point files in it - and does not display the point files. If I change
> any aspect of the view, it freezes the view.  The same message also pops
> up when I try to print or export the layouts from the project, and
> prevents me printing or exporting.
>
> As you could appreciate, this is immensely frustrating. Any suggestions
> gratefully accepted. Will sum,
>
> thanks
>
> JohnL.
>
>
This message looks like the ArcView fonts are not properly installed in the
Winnt\Fonts directory.
To solve this:

First, reset the Marker Palette. If that doesn't work, check the file system
for an extra default.avp.
The right default.avp resides in
c:\esri\av_gis30\arcview\symbols\default.avp. If there is another
default.avp on your machine (probably in the $TEMP or $HOME folder), delete
this one.

If that isn't the problem, navigate to the Winnt\Fonts directory and make
sure that the ESRI fonts are there. If they aren't, they need to be
installed. If they are there, which is probably the case, select them and
Copy\Paste them into C:\Temp or some other local directory. Then delete the
ESRI fonts from the
Winnt\Fonts directory.
Still in the Winnt\Fonts directory, go to File menu and choose Install New
Font. Install the ESRI fonts from C:\Temp.
Reboot the machine so that the fonts will be registered. Start up ArcView
and open the Marker Palette. You should now see point symbols, and your
point themes should display without error. (I hope...)

regards,
Pieter Geert van den Beukel


Assertion "Status ==1" failed at line 213 of file "..\sym\nfontc"


At the moment, this message pops up anytime I go into a view in a project
with point files in it - and does not display the point files. If I change
any aspect of the view, it freezes the view.  The same message also pops up
when I try to print or export the layouts from the project, and prevents me
printing or exporting.


In my developing experience, such messages are linked to AV bugs. They
mostly appeared when I tried to do some twisted coding, calling DLLs and
such, forcing AV to do things that were not supposed to happen.
Seems to me you are in front of an AV bug here - it may be triggered by a
corrupted shapefile... That's all I can guess.

Hope this helps,
Lionel Davoust

This part of your error:   sym\nfontc
suggests to me there is a missing FONT - something associated with the
symbol you displayed one of your point files with.  I have had cases
where an ESRI font is lost from Windows.  You might try looking at
Start>Settings>ControlPanel>Fonts   See if you can determine if there
is a missing font. That's my best guess.
Of course drop the point themes out of the project if you can and save
without - see if the problem is still there.
Good Luck.

Ralph W.