Description: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user viewed content rendered in a specially crafted Embedded OpenType (EOT) font in client applications that can render EOT fonts, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office PowerPoint, or Microsoft Office Word. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs, view, change, or delete data, or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights. The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting the way that the Embedded OpenType Font Engine decompresses specially crafted files and content containing embedded fonts. Keep reading →

After you install security update 961371 (described in security bulletin MS09-029), you may experience any of the following problems:

• Web pages that use fonts that have a very long string in the name table display with a default font.
• Documents that use these fonts display with a default font when you print them by using a print spooler.
• Attempts to embed the fonts as subsets in Microsoft Word documents or in Microsoft PowerPoint presentations fail.

EnumFontFamiliesEx may return “Meiryo Bold” instead of “Meiryo” in elfFullName member for ENUMLOGFONTEX structure after KB975929 is installed on Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008.

This article describes an update to the Meiryo Japanese font family for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. This font family now includes the Meiryo UI font and the Meiryo UI Bold font. This new font lets applications display Japanese text more clearly in the new Ribbon UI component. The Ribbon UI component can be used in many applications that run on Windows Vista or on Windows Server 2008.

Description: This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities in a Microsoft Windows component, the Embedded OpenType (EOT) Font Engine. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution. An attacker who successfully exploited either of these vulnerabilities could take complete control of an affected system remotely. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights. The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting the way that the Microsoft Windows EOT component parses files and content containing embedded fonts. Keep reading →

You have some Printer Cartridge Metric (PCM) fonts installed on a computer that is running a 32-bit version of Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008. However, when you try to use these PCM fonts in an application, they are not listed among the available fonts.

When you change system DPI Scaling from “Control Panel > Personalization > Adjust font size (DPI)” on Windows Vista, or from “Control Panel > Display” on Windows 7, you may notice that the displayed font size does not change.

On a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008, you right-click the %SystemRoot%\fonts folder, and then you select the Install New Font option to install some PostScript fonts. In the Add Fonts dialog box that appears, you browse to the folder in which the font files are located. (In the Add Fonts dialog box, you can select the fonts to install from the List of fonts list.) However, if there are more than 100 font files in the folder, for every 100 files that are added to the list, the first font file in the list disappears from the List of fonts box.

Notes For example, the first file disappears when there are 101 files. The first two files disappear when there are 201 files. The first three files disappear when there are 301 files, and so on.

Photoshop CS4 crashes when it opens in Windows Vista 64-bit Edition.

You have third-party fonts installed, possibly including Gas and Guitar.

When you try to select “Arial Narrow” from the font list in Photoshop Elements, it is not available.