FM 7.2p158-Character spacing goes crazy

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From: Steven_Kruger
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:34

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FrameMaker 7.2p158 on Windows XP SP2. Yesterday, Oct 15, 2008, right after a load of Microsoft Windows updates, I started experiencing a strange problem while typing.

No matter what file I opened, even a brand new template file, as I started typing, the character spacing would go crazy. I even saw an "s" superimposed over another "s"!! Sometimes the characters will continue off the margin and then start again on a new line but indented and some of the text is not visible. If I select the text and apply the "Default Font" character tag, all is well. But as soon as I start typing again, crazy reappears.

I've tried applying the hotfix that was recently provided for the missing characters when generating PDF problem, but that didn't help. I cannot move to FM 8.0 yet so that's not an option.

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