Type 1 font handling messed up by December 11, 2012 update KB2753842

Anonymous
2012-12-13T00:15:42+00:00

Programs like Quark Xpress and Coreldraw on Windows 7 and XP have their Type 1 font handling broken by this patch. Characters larger than 15 pt. become invisible. Uninstalling the patch removes the problem. We have 330 machines with this problem. Is Microsoft getting ready to release a fix for this?

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Anonymous
2013-01-02T09:53:51+00:00

Hello all,

Please be informed, that MS12-078 now has been updated – you can read more about the update here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms12-078

Why was this bulletin rereleased on December 20, 2012? ****Microsoft rereleased this bulletin to address a known issue in the KB2753842 update related to OpenType Fonts (OTF) not properly rendering in applications after the original update was applied. Customers who have successfully installed the original KB2753842 update are protected from the vulnerability described in CVE-2012-2556. However, customers need to install the rereleased KB2753842 update to resolve the issue with improper OpenType font rendering and to keep the affected binaries up to date.

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-01-01T19:45:35+00:00

    This issue has been fixed. They released v2.0 of KB2753842 on 12/20/2012

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-01-01T19:29:51+00:00

    I assume MS will eventually fix it, but I'm not sure that will help me. Even un-installing KB2753842 did not solve my problems. I went through the entire drill TWICE (Control Panel, Find KB2753842 under MS Windows Updates, right-click, click Uninstall, wait till the process completes, then restart).

    The first time, after the restart, KB2753842 was still there in the Control Panel, MS Windows Updates list.

    The second time succeeded in getting rid of KB2753842 (at least it no longer shows up in Control Panel, MS Windows Updates), but my fonts still aren't fixed.

    I have 64-bit Win 7, and the font problem manifests itself in some windows and dialogs of Vegas Video 11.0.

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-12-26T14:27:21+00:00

    My problem has been rectified.  I applied 2 updates last week.  The second one is what fixed it for me.  Now, hopefully, I can stop getting the e-mails of people's complaints.

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-12-26T14:19:57+00:00

    I installed the 1 Microsoft update available this morning and launched Corel X5.

    I typed something short and changed it to the typeface Myriad Pro only to watch it vanish as before....

    Am I on Mars?

    PeterFacey: Is this the automatically installed revised version you are referencing?

    KB2753842-v2

    It was not available to me this morning - maybe I need to relaunch Parallels and check...

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