This looks very much like the cause of the problem that Mike Ver Duin is having at http://community.coreldraw.com/forums/t/33943.aspx
Is anybody else finding their fontnav (64 bit or otherwise) is diagnosing italic fonts as duplicates?
My details:
X6 installed on newly delivered 64 bit win 7 professional (with all available windows updates).
Asked fontnav to find fonts from D:\Users\Public\Documents\Corel\Content X6\Fonts (as installed from X6 DVD).
The catalogue shows at most two fonts from each family of four:
Going to file > Settings > Duplicate Fonts shows the reason: the regular and italic versions of the font have been improperly detected as duplicates of each other.
It applies equally to the fonts on the Corel CD and those already installed in windows, including standard fonts such as Times New Roman.
OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 ProfessionalVersion 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601Other OS Description Not AvailableOS Manufacturer Microsoft CorporationSystem Name PCS2System Manufacturer System manufacturerSystem Model System Product NameSystem Type x64-based PCProcessor AMD A8-3870 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics, 3000 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 1901, 08/02/2012SMBIOS Version 2.6Windows Directory C:\WindowsSystem Directory C:\Windows\system32Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume2Locale United KingdomHardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7601.17514"User Name PcS2\HarryTime Zone GMT Daylight TimeInstalled Physical Memory (RAM) 16.0 GBTotal Physical Memory 15.5 GBAvailable Physical Memory 13.3 GBTotal Virtual Memory 31.0 GBAvailable Virtual Memory 28.6 GBPage File Space 15.5 GBPage File C:\pagefile.sys
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I am new to the forums, but not new to CorelDraw (I started on Corel 3 - not X3). Yeah, I'm that old. I remember using Font Navigator when it belonged to a company who were bought by Adobe, who sold it to Bitstream, who licensed it to Corel. Back then it just worked. It has had it's problems over the years (mainly with postscript fonts) but the current version running on Win 7 64 is a dog. If I have a family of 8 fonts (light, light ital, reg, reg ital, bold, bold ital, black & black ital) then I get to see and use maybe 4 out of them - and not always the same 4! Some days the bold will be missing, other days it shows regular as thin italic. The problem is not with Windows 7 as I copied the fonts to the Windows Fonts folder as a test. All were available with Word, Illustrator, etc. Opened BFN, went 'find fonts' and it only showed 4 out of the 8. Strangely, all 8 showed up in Corel. It seems to be a problem with BFN not reading the font correctly and therefore not putting the shortcut into the Windows Fonts folder correctly. And it's not just opentype fonts. This problem occurs in truetype fonts as well. Strangely, postscript fonts don't seem to be affected. The best instance I have come across is with a family of only 2 faces - regular & bold. They don't offer italic in this face. Yet BFN offered me an italic version (no regular or bold). It even showed me an 'italic' version - which was the regular version slanted. Now that is talented - persistant little bugger of a problem
Corel have been remarkably quiet on this.