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The better question is what is the jaws folder for. Explaining that will explain the font stubs. JAWS is the internal PDF engine that QuarkXPress uses to generate PDFs when you export. The JAWS engine uses a jaws folder to keep track of what fonts are active while XPress is open. It does this by writing little font stubs in to the Font Stubs ...

You're welcome! Glad I could help out. Font management issues are a bit**! The only "good" thing about those issues is that they tend to be the most common and therefore have some established troubleshooting rules. Good luck to you! 

Well, then it is a font issue. You just need to find out which font is the problem. Disable all the fonts. Re-enable some and try and open the document. Keep doing this until you run down the font that is corrupt (or not working). Once you find it, disable it, open your document and change the copy used by that font to a different ...

Downloading and installing Suitcase won't solve the problem, although a long-term look at investing in a font manager might be a good idea. I'd move on and try my other suggestions. It may not  be a font issue.

Yeah. I was thinking as much. Apple will tell you that FontBook is great and it has improved over the years, but it's still not in the same leaguee as Suitcase or other commercial font managers. See this thread. In FontBook preferences you want to turn off Automatic Font Activation and Alert Me If System Fonts Change. But before you do this, ...

What font manager are you using? 

1st thing to try if you have not already. Delete preferences. If that does not work then determine if it is a font issue. Disable your font management. Try to open the documents. If they open then you most likely have a corrupt font somewhere. It's also possible that the font you use for the "Normal" style sheet is corrupted. ...

Well, the first idea that comes to mind is the oldest and simplest, but you did not mention you tried it. Have you deleted your preferences file? Note that unlike versions 5.0 and below, version 6.x's prefs file can go corrupt slowly. With version 5.0 and below it just went corrupt and that was it – no start up. 

Have you tried cleanigf font caches. Sometimes XPress will get confused, particularly if you are using different types of the same font. Note too that QXP 6.x does not handle extended attributes of OpenType fonts. FontNuke is a good cleaner, but any of your standard OSX maintenance tools will have this option (Coctail, Onyx, Main Menu, ...

Hi Charlie. We also are a newspaper (two weeklies). I've had slow operation on XPress 7.x (and also 8.x), but on a Mac. The code for QXP 7/8.x was optimized for Intel Macs, but that optimization slowed things down for PPC Macs (which we use). The main cuplrit is multi-column text boxes. In our case, usually our Legal section is 6 columns with ...