I have had trouble with a font that i have been trying to use, I have access to both X3 and X4 and for some reason the problem is reversed depending on which I am using. In Corel X3 it will allow me to use only the bold and italic version of the font, it is aware that the normal roman exists but when used it wont show up in the document whilst in X4 it will only let me use the standard roman version with no bold or italic available at all.
the particular font has its roman version as a .PFB and .PFM type 1 font whilst the italics and bold version is a true type font.
I have tried copying and pasting them directly into the fonts folder and using bitstream navigator where the preview is normal,
anyone have any ideas, thanks in advance
"the particular font has its roman version as a .PFB and .PFM type 1 font whilst the italics and bold version is a true type font"
In that case, you do not really have "the" particular font, you have two conflicting fonts.
Windows cannot (or at least, does not, in my experience) cope with this. It can mix truetype and type 1 when they are completely separate fonts, but is confused if it sees what appears to be two different versions of the same font family.
You can imagine this as the two versions of the font "fighting" each other internally ... is that dualling or duelling ? But it is a "battle" that neither font will win conclusively and, as you've found, the results can be somewhat unpredictable.
I think you need to eradicate both versions of those fonts, and find one font which has all four variants.
You may be on to something here Harry!
Thanks Brute-Fish, it's nice to know others are having the same problem. I now have an even more confusing dilemma.. I think it may be a corrupt font causing it all. But on one of our PC's the windows fonts have all gone haywire and now there is no 'checkbox' next to the folders when we try to 'find fonts'. In fact I can't check any boxes next to any folders to search for fonts. God I hate fonts! I tried to do one thing and have one central location where we deposit all fonts.
This all happened when we scrolled over the font Square BT inside of FontNav.
Something I would like added to FontNav would be a font group for Windows fonts. Then you could un-install everything except for Windows fonts and re-import them all. We have one staff member who has 3,500 fonts installed and there is no way I can quickly revert back to something more manageable.
To conclude, I have one more issue with Windows 7 and font management. My system shows all installed fonts (348 to be exact) another PC in the office shows only 10 fonts, yet FontNav is saying there is over 440? I'm ready to give up, I know eventually this is going to be the cause of a massive production dilemma.
Hi Brute-Fish,
Cheers, I'll give it a crack but it appears it only restores XP and Vista, there isn't an option for Win 7 :(
It's a great Idea that FontNav should incorporate.