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Great! Thanks for the speedy fix.

My mom has early onset Alzheimer's. She was a great artist, an amazing calligrapher, and had several marvelous handwriting scripts. I am getting married early next year and if she were well she would have participated significantly in the preparations, including by addressing the invitations as she ...

This explains why this is now happening... FCOutDrw is a new dynamic linked library (DLL) which is used to draw smooth glyph outlines. If the file is removed, FontCreator will use the old drawing method. The new method uses the even-odd rule when it comes to determining whether an area is inside or ...

The new method uses the even-odd rule when it comes to determining whether an area is inside or outside while the old method uses the non-zero winding rule. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonzero-rule Thanks for the detailed explanation. Just curious, why would the new method use the even-odd r...

If I am not mistaken you can run FontCreator 10.1 without this DLL, but the preview of outlines will not be quite as smooth. Is it your experience that FontCreator runs, or does it fail to start due to the missing DLL? FontCreator does still run, and very oddly having the virus scanner delete FCOut...

So this is weird... the problem has suddenly disappeared... And it disappeared immediately after my virus scanner deleted FCOutDrw.dll because it thought it was the Trojan-Banker.Win32.Banbra.vdfk malware/virus (I posted about that issue in this thread ). In that thread they mention that deleting th...

I installed 10.1 update with no problem yesterday afternoon but this morning woke up to these virus notices and a locked down computer which demanded disinfection from: FCOutDrw.dll Trojan-Banker.Win32.Banbra.vdfk FontCreatorSetup.exe/data0083 Trojan-Banker.Win32.Banbra.vdfk FontCreatorSetup.exe UDS...

I'm very confused. I have two closed curves and when one I overlap them the overlapped region disappears (is invisible). Why would this be? Presumably a related phenomena, when I try to use join on the two curves thinking this would solve the problem both curves effectively disappear, and where they...