Some fonts don't work in Direct3D 9?

[Taofeld]

My game does not have this problem under Direct3D 8.

When attempting to use some custom fonts (most of the ones in here: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/760507/resource.rar) they default to some other plain font. This only happens in D3D9. What gives?

[Paul_Boland]

Is this on the same PC? If not it could be that the fonts are not installed on the Direct X 9 PC.

When working with non-standard fonts, I type up what I want said and then I convert it to a Backdrop Object, turning the message into a graphic with the used font in question. This eleminates this problem on all PC's that use my software.

[Taofeld]

It's the same PC. The fonts are installed, of course.

I use the font to display a frequently changing number. Counter objects have the same issue of defaulting to another font.

In my particular case, I've gone back to Direct3D 8 for other reasons, so I'm set either way.

[Yves]

Apparently these fonts work fine on Vista but make the runtime to crash on XP in Direct3D 9 mode.

I get the exact same behavior with the standard text example that comes with the DirectX 9 SDK... their example crashes.

Maybe there is a problem with the format of these font files? Or maybe DirectX doesn't like them for some reason... The crash happens in the Windows Uniscribe DLL.

[Pkeod]

Legally you should't be distributing these fonts anyway.