Multiple Master Fonts stop working in recent Windows XP update

Arnis Gubins arnis at geofx.on.ca
Tue Jan 11 15:02:23 PST 2011


Microsoft's Patch Tuesday release in December broke MM's. See: 
<http://forums.adobe.com/thread/766764>http://forums.adobe.com/thread/766764

You have to uninstall Security Update for Windows XP (KB2296199) to 
get them to work again. This worked on my system with XP SP3 to get 
them to enumerate again. Unfortunately, you will also probably have 
to re-create all of the various instances required.

~ Arnis

At 01:00 PM 1/11/2011, you wrote:
>I don't have a workaround (other than do not install the updaters in 
>Windows) and sandbox the VM FrameMaker is running in.   This is a 
>real pain.   Moving to an OpenType font looks to be the only 
>solution at this point, but that would require 100's of hours of 
>micropositioning work for a 450 page textbook to be redone.   Let me 
>know if you have any suggestions or happen to find a solution.   If 
>I find one, I'll let you know and post to the list as well.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Brad
>




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