Windows 10: Bad font substitution in Windows 11 after KB5044285 Arial to Amiri Quran

HelloI'm a programmer and I use WINAPI CreateFontIndirect function in my app for custom form scaling. Unfortunately some clients using Windows 11 reported that controls have invisible fonts and only Polish letters are visible, but ridiculously large.I programmed a function in my app, that reported font substitutions of affected controls:Affected Windows 11:---------------------------------------- Control: CoboDiagnosta LOGFONTW Structure: lfHeight: -28 lfWidth: 0 lfEscapement: 0 lfOrientation: 0 lfWeight: 400 lfItalic: False lfUnderline: False lfStrikeOut: False lfCharSet: 238 lfOutPrecision:

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Helvetica font not Swapping to Arial font on Windows 10 & Windows 7

Hi,

We are experiencing issue related to the way Windows handle Helvetica font when it is being used in the external files received. When we receive a Indesign file having Helvetica font it gets Swapped to the Arial font automatically on some workstations when
we export the PDF file but on some workstations it did not.

We checked the settings of both workstations on which font swapping happen and where it did not, but we did not observe any difference. Also, we checked the Windows Registry entry at,

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes\

We did not observed any difference on both workstations and the Helvetica was mapped to Arial.

Can you please suggest that how to make the default substitution for ‘Helvetica’ font to be ‘Arial’ font windows. Please suggest the setting which will help us to auto substitute missing Helvetica Font with Arial front while exporting PDF from Indesign file.

We are using Windows 7 & Windows 10 machines.

Adobe InDesign version is CS5.5

Please let me know if any further details are required.

Regards,

Shashank

 

Helvetica font not Swapping to Arial font on Windows 10 & Windows 7

Hi,

We are experiencing issue related to the way Windows handle Helvetica font when it is being used in the external files received. When we receive a Indesign file having Helvetica font it gets Swapped to the Arial font automatically on some workstations when
we export the PDF file but on some workstations it did not.

We checked the settings of both workstations on which font swapping happen and where it did not, but we did not observe any difference. Also, we checked the Windows Registry entry at,

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes\

We did not observed any difference on both workstations and the Helvetica was mapped to Arial.

Can you please suggest that how to make the default substitution for ‘Helvetica’ font to be ‘Arial’ font windows. Please suggest the setting which will help us to auto substitute missing Helvetica Font with Arial front while exporting PDF from Indesign file.

We are using Windows 7 & Windows 10 machines.

Adobe InDesign version is CS5.5

Please let me know if any further details are required.

Regards,

Shashank

 

Font Bug in Windows 10

Unfortunately, while this may be the answer for those getting an incorrect font instead of Arial, that does not appear to be my issue. First, the letters are being replaced with random characters from other languages, instead of another font (and these same
characters are seen in several other cases I've seen on here, which would suggest it's not due to a bad font, unless we all had the same fonts installed - unlikely). Second, on opening RegEdit and browsing the relevant font listing, I've found no inappropriate
listings. No conflicts with the default Arial font.

Good job on the "using the wrong font" bug, however.