Sunday, February 8, 2009

Type 1 and OTF Font Issues with nVidia Graphics Cards

A lot of users who have nVidia Graphics cards configured with their computers experience problems with Type 1 or OTF fonts. These nVidia GPUs cannot load any Type 1 or OTF fonts and the said issue even happens with TTF fonts, although very rare.

For users with a desktop system, they can just download the CUDA driver and usually it resolves the issue however but there is still no driver for portable nVidia video solutions. Here is a workaround from Adobe that will work for either desktop or portable:

Disclaimer: Export a backup copy of the registry before creating this key.

1. Click Start, Run, and type regedit. Click OK.
2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager. Click on the Memory Management folder.
3. Right click in the open right pane. Choose New, DWORD value. For the name, call it SessionImageSize.
4. Right click the new value and choose Modify. Give it a decimal value of 20.
5. Close the Registry Editor. Reboot the system.

The Type 1 and OTF fonts should now open/install without any problems. Dell engineering is still waiting for nVidia to release a video driver update to fix the said issue.


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