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
    2013-02-20T00:58:31+00:00

    I have this kind of issue with the Windows 8 viewer with fonts not beeing display, even after reinstalling the update. Is this the same issue?

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-01-01T22:47:27+00:00

    REPOSTING...

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-01-01T21:12:08+00:00

    Despite the mis-match in dates, I went ahead and installed the latest updates, via the Start Menu, All Programs, Windows Update. I re-started the computer right away, and sure enough, KB2753842  is now visible in the list of installed updates, with an installed date of 1/1/2013, i.e. today. But I still have the font problem in Vegas Video.

    On another Win 7 PC, where the installation date of KB2753842 is 12/20/2012, the problem does not occur.

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-01-01T20:26:29+00:00

    Okay, so where do I find it? If one enters KB2753842 in Microsoft's search box, the top entry in the list of messages returned is dated December 11, 2012, not December 20. And it's not labeled version 2.0.

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