Disappearing Text in Corel X5, help please?

[Jon Marshall]

have you read the thread about the latest Win 7 update?

[Gary Birch]

Funnily enough I have had the same thing today with hernandez font which I bought a couple of weeks ago…. I put it down to the font even though it has been used before.

We are on x5 with xp but strangely our pc automatically updated overnight.

Be very interested to find the cause and more importantly the cure

Cheers

Gary

[George Zerbino]

Cause:
microsoft security update KB2753842 (security update for OpenType Compact Font Format)

Cure:
Go to control panel / add & remove programs / click on "show updates" / scroll down to windows updates, look for KB275384 and remove it

When windows update shows the same update again (it will do so), don’t install it

By the way, do all of the above at your own risk. I’ve done it and it works fine for me on all of my pcs, but I won’t be held responsible if anything happens to anybody else’s! 😀

For me it’s a simple choice, a slightly less secure computer whilst a new patch is being made or being able to carry on working? 😮 😮

Cheers
George

[David Rowland]

thank you for this… happened to one of our designers today.

i did system restore, problem fixed.

[Hugh Potter]

I’m not ceertain if this is related or not but I sometimes have fonts (cannot recall which) that when ou add a contour around them, certain letters just will not contour, no matter what you do to them (break, group, weld, whatever). On one or two ocasions I’ve discovered the letter wasn’t completed -ie. the fill was there but the outline didn’t complete. otherwise I’m clueless and sometimes have to freehand draw a letter and pop it in there!

quote Gary Birch:

Funnily enough I have had the same thing today with hernandez font which I bought a couple of weeks ago…. I put it down to the font even though it has been used before.

We are on x5 with xp but strangely our pc automatically updated overnight.

Be very interested to find the cause and more importantly the cure

Cheers

Gary

Hi Gary,
Same here.. it does my head in that despite turning off every automatic update that I cann find, XP still does this.

I’m not sure last nights update has affected anything yet though.

[Harry Cleary]

Just had this happen on X3, solution worked thank the lord!! Thought I was gonna have to re-create a 20 page document!
Thanks folks.

[Jill Marie Welsh]

Happened here as well and if it wasn’t for sign forums and sign folks on FB talking about it I would be up sh!t creek without a paddle.
😕
Would have had to just paint everything like back in the day.
Love….Jill

[Alan Drury]

We are not alone, I’m hoping a response from Microsoft will be here http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/wind … e98?page=1
If you read through Claude from Corel has offered a software fix but only relevant to developers, the rest of us have to diasable sucurity patches – so much for updates that we now cannot implement. Somebody at Microsoft wants their ar*e kicked first for letting it happen and twice as hard for still not fixing after all this time with no sign of it in the future.

[Harry Cleary]

Really annoying that you register this and sign that and then when there is a problem their end they can’t use that freaking email address they are so desparate to get to let you know there is an issue and thereby save a bit of time for their customers. That issue cost me about 2 or 3 hours today before I discovered the solution here.

[George Zerbino]

UPDATE

The security update has now been re-released (v2.0 released today 20/12/12) and now works without problems in Coreldraw, on my pcs it works fine. 😀

Cheers
George

[John Harding]

I was experiencing the same problem in flexi and corel on certain fonts, update has sorted that now 😀