Wrong device font in Flash CC

There's a problem with device fonts in Flash CC.
When I create a dynamic textfield in Flash CS6, set the font to Verdana and select 'Use device fonts' as Anti-Alias option without embedding it does the following:
Correctly show the Verdana font without anti-alias, because it's present on my computer.
Now, when I do the same in Flash CC it does this:
That isn't Verdana, looks more to be New Times Roman or similar. What's the deal with that?

Hi
Could you please delete the prefrence files of CS 6 and CC , then open the CS6 file in CC. Let me know whether its working correclty.
regards
Jose.

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Why is getLineMetrics inaccurate when using device fonts* or immediately after resizing a TextField?

1. We need getLineMetrics to return correct values immediately after changing a TextField's width/height or any property that would affect the layout metrics, withouth having to alter other properties like setting the text to itself (p1.text = p1.text). Currently, if you change the width of a text field to match the stage width for example, getLineMetrics will not return correct values until the next frame.... UNLESS you set the text property.
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The second problem is that even when handling the resize event, and for example setting the text field width's to match the Stage.stageWidth property, when the text line wraps, it's not updated until the next frame. In other words, at the exact resize event that causes a word to wrap, calling getLineMetrics in this handler reports the previous line length before the last word on the line wrapped. So it's delayed a frame. The only way to get the correct metrics immediately is basically to set the text property to itself like "p1.text = p1.text". That seems to force an update of the metrics. Otherwise, it's delayed, and useles. I wrote about this in an answer over a year ago, showing how sensitive the text field property order is: http://stackoverflow.com/a/9558597/88409

As I've noted several times, setting the text property to its own current value should not be necessary to update the metrics, and in some subclasses of text field, setting a property to its own value is ignored as the property is not actually changing and processing such a change would cause unnecessary work which could impact application performance. Metrics should be current upon calling getLineMetrics. They are not. That's the problem.
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