Filmimpact Transition Packs Bundle Tp1 V3.1.7 & Tp2 V3.2.5 on this page. UPDATE: thanks to the effect, I just stumbled upon. It is: if you have Windows XP and either manually or with some 'hack' managed to download the Windows Update of February 9th, 2015, Arial and Courier get screwed. Windows Vista Users: the same applies, but since Vista is still supported, it happens automatically and always (unless you uninstall the KB3013455 update, and disable it from Windows Update before it self-reinstalls).
Sep 02, 2011 How is the Arial font work with the other. You are not using Windows XP, are you? Cs Portable Version 2.62 Pc Download there. Seems that the Arial installed with Office 2010. Arial Black, Arial.
Original question I have an older PC with XP Pro SP3 installed. All of a sudden two fonts (at least), Arial and Courier New, started looking different. Arial is tolerable if a bit fuzzy; curves sprouted extra pixels, and some characters have enlarged elements (for example the horizontal bar of the 4 is two pixels tall, the bar from the 5 is one pixel only). Courier New has become pretty horrible, and seems to be actually missing whole horizontal scan lines. The extra pixels would make one think of ClearType but those settings are correct (and unchanged since ages ago), and the usual voodoo of setting them to wrong values and then back to the correct ones avails nothing. I checked several and that looked promising but nothing seems to work.
Thinking that the fonts had gotten damaged somehow (all others appear OK - I switched from Courier New to Consolas wherever possible) I replaced them with backup copies. Then I also reverted the system back to a configuration of one week ago, which was surely working. To no apparent effect. Deleting the font cache ( C: WINDOWS system32 FNTCACHE.DAT) has it reappear somewhat smaller (as expected) on next reboot, but does not fix the problem.
The PC is otherwise working properly and all other fonts render as they always did; I managed to retrieve a screenshot of two months ago with some text in several fonts, and by rewriting the same words compared the two images, which are identical pixel per pixel (unfortunately the screenshot did not include either Arial or Courier New - but, to know that those two aren't OK, I need no test). I'm really at a loss as to what could be causing this.
My system rebooted itself at 3:20 am and reinstalled KB3013455 and whacked my fonts again.so I had to un-install it yet again. Windows is not letting me block the KB3013455.
AAAhhhh.Maybe Microsoft should consider fixing this bug before issuing the update. Seems like it should be whacking EVERYONE's Courier New and Arial. (BTW: the FREE 'Dark Courier.TTF' has a shorter line height than vanilla Courier New, so it does not play well with my VB6 lists that are looking for 34 visible rows and getting 37.) so not very good for a direct replacement unfortunately – Feb 16 '15 at 9:49 •.