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dnix71:
So this means you need to be running XP SP3 to be up-to-date here ;)

Double-byte buffered fonts helped solve an OS security issue in Windows. Long ago when computers were slow and dumb "(640kb of ram should be enough for anyone)" BG and MS got it's office apps to run faster and render fonts faster by DCOM (distributed computing) and running font rendering in ram space. Which meant if you hacked a font you could load malware into ram and spread that to every machine on the network.

If all your fonts are double-byte (buffered if they were originally single-byte) then it is easier to protect the stack against a buffer overflow attack.

I had a friend install HP printer software with older single-byte fonts. Windows would throw an exception and place an empty file with the name of the obsolete font it would now refuse to render. it was a U with umlats over it. The friend freaked, because no matter how mant times she would delete the file, it would reappear. She thought she had a virus.

MS has always made money from it's office apps, so compromising safety for the sake of function made sense to them.

TechAdmin:

--- Quote from: dnix71 on January 16, 2020, 08:50:35 PM ---So this means you need to be running XP SP3 to be up-to-date here ;)

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