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Opentype font file causes Windows to restart. Jan 06 2003 03:36PM
Andrew (aconnell xtra co nz) (4 replies)

Re: Opentype font file causes Windows to restart. Jan 09 2003 08:18AM
Kaspar Brand (ot velox ch)

Re: Opentype font file causes Windows to restart. Jan 07 2003 05:16AM
Mark Litchfield (mark ngssoftware com)

Re: Opentype font file causes Windows to restart. Jan 07 2003 02:58AM
Floyd Russell (floyd neospire net) (1 replies)

Re: Opentype font file causes Windows to restart. Jan 08 2003 07:09PM
Chris Ridd (chris ridd isode com)

Re: Opentype font file causes Windows to restart. Jan 06 2003 11:27PM
Steven Tucker (bugtraq-spam atarimax com)

On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Andrew wrote:

> Problem
> -------
>
> The attached OpenType font file will cause Windows to restart
> immediately when the file is opened by the default viewer (fontview).
> I doubt anyone would suspect a "harmless" little font file of being
> able to cause such a thing to happen!
>
> Fix
> ---
> No fix known.

On XP Professional SP1 it causes a bugcheck in ATMFD.DLL. According
to the properties for this DLL this is the Adobe Type Manager driver.

The bugcheck code is PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA @ Base+0x28A75.

You can delete the registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Font Drivers

This will eliminate the immediate problem, but will remove type 1
font support.

Steve

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