Adobe OpenType Fonts, Windows Xp sp3 and Nvidia
- these are the ingredients for some big big trouble
basically i could not use any OpenType Fonts (otf).
my system installed with Windows Xp sp3 said the fonts are either not there or damaged. i could use normal truetype fonts (ttf) but no otf.
after hours of search i finally stumbled across that on some systems with sp3 and ati cards there could arise these problems.
i had drivers installed from laptopvideo2go.com which are newer then the drivers samsung provides for my laptop (samsung r70) which has a nvidia 8600gs. version was forceware 175.xx.
I resolved the issue with installing the drivers from samsung which are forceware 101.19 from last year. they are freaking old!
i will try some other versions, i read somewhere 16x.xx series should do.
the bug itself seems to be in the driver and in the engine windows uses to render (postscript based) otf fonts witch they licensed from adobe. nice team work guys!
- how the fuck can such things happen and why cant you find anything about it!
- why the hell i can only get drivers from my laptop vendor and why are they so freaking old?
another problem i have (or had) is tearing mostly bad not only in videos.
its also hard to understand why it seems to be impossible to use directx on dual head, means games or movies.
i will certainly look at other operating systems again now…
Thanks! I had to de-install the whole lot but thanks to you it didn’t take some hours.
Comment by Hennie — June 26, 2008 @ 5:48 pm