If you only use OSX (and don't share Pict files with people use use OS 8-9), choose to render text as fonts. The easiest way to fix the problem is to run this small application. Fix a font default that is probably causing the problem. Create a new user account, and then install Prism 6.0h while using that account. If you still have crashing issues, you have two options. OSX programs tend to import angled text correctly. In most cases, the problem is solved by updating El Capitan. Note that this problem with angled text occurs with Mac OS 8-9 programs only. To change the method Prism uses when copying a graph (or layout) to the Clipboard, open Prism Preferences from the Edit menu, go to the Graph tab and choose to copy vertical text as a Bitmap. If your program cannot properly import (or paste) angled text as fonts, you should configure Prism to render angled fonts as bitmaps instead. But this won't solve the problem for all programs. In some programs (including PowerPoint 2001) you can fix the problem by ungrouping the graph.

However some Mac OS 8-9 programs (such as Picture Viewer, PowerPoint 2001, and Graphic Converter 4.0) do not open angled fonts correctly, but instead show the text twice (angled and horizontal).

But using fonts gives better looking text in most cases. The default is bitmap, as this is more compatible with more programs. Prism 4 offers two ways to render angled text, as a bitmap or as fonts.