Text Display – CorelDRAW

CorelDRAW should display text objects as if they were curves. I always need to convert text to curves to preview them correctly.

  • No, there's no reason for do it. CorelDRAW must work fine with this option. If not, there's a problem with you system.

     

    Anyway, if want to disable this option, go to the Start menu / run... write REGEDIT and press enter. Then, go to

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Corel\CorelDRAW\14.0\CorelDRAW\Application Preferences\TextTool

    and change the LiveText key from 1 to 0

    • You are right Ariel. The problem is in my X3. It seems that it was fixed in X4 Embarrassed

      Thank you Ariel.

      • OMG!!!

        Ariel, you have solved my main agony with X4 with this new info...

        Now I can get work done in X4 at the speed I am used to in all prev versions of CorelDRAW. This is huge....

        BTW, drag-duplicating texts works again (being able to see the orig. in place)

        Thanks so much!!

        Ariel said:

        Anyway, if want to disable this option, go to the Start menu / run... write REGEDIT and press enter. Then, go to

        HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Corel\CorelDRAW\14.0\CorelDRAW\Application Preferences\TextTool

        and change the LiveText key from 1 to 0

         

        • Hallo Ariel,

          a very good news.

          Thanks!

          • Hi Jeff,

            if you are going to turn off live text, does that mean you don't get the interactive text sizing? If this is the case you might want to try the attached macro I wrote ages ago. You probably already have it.

            It may be a good idea to place the registry hack plus this macro on macromonster.com and let others know they are there. Anyone having speed issues with live text (forunately, I am not one of them) can turn it off and use the macro instead for interactive font resizing.

            Best regards,

            BDFontSizer.gms
            • hi B,
               
              No, turning off live text just stops Draw from constant rerendering real fonts during:
               
              1. moving
              2. sizing
              3. transforming
               
              With LT off, Draw works FAST like it did from V8-X13. For me, anyway... You'll still see blue "proxy lines" (I'll call them that LOL) so you know what's happening during above choices.
               
              Drag-dupe works smoother now too, showing orig fonts in position.
               
              The macro: This seems to do same as Corel's built in default of using CTRL + numpad 8 or 2 respectively. Try it, it's fast way to "nudge" point size with hotkeys, and been in Draw forever, but not known about.
              <Brian> wrote in message news:47266@coreldraw.com...

              Hi Jeff,

              if you are going to turn off live text, does that mean you don't get the interactive text sizing?

              • Jeff Harrison said:

                OMG!!!

                Ariel, you have solved my main agony with X4 with this new info...

                Now I can get work done in X4 at the speed I am used to in all prev versions of CorelDRAW. This is huge....

                BTW, drag-duplicating texts works again (being able to see the orig. in place)

                Thanks so much!!

                Anyway, if want to disable this option, go to the Start menu / run... write REGEDIT and press enter. Then, go to

                HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Corel\CorelDRAW\14.0\CorelDRAW\Application Preferences\TextTool

                and change the LiveText key from 1 to 0

                [/quote]

                 

                Glad to see that this information was useful. The strange thing is that I thought it was something that almost everyone knew...
                • Hi A,
                   
                  I have not seen this before anywhere... and I've looked hard, Corel themselves had no advice...
                  <Ariel> wrote in message news:47299@coreldraw.com...
                  Glad to see that this information was useful. The strange thing is that I thought it was something that almost everyone knew...
                • Ariel said:

                  No, there's no reason for do it. CorelDRAW must work fine with this option. If not, there's a problem with you system.

                  Anyway, if want to disable this option, go to the Start menu / run... write REGEDIT and press enter. Then, go to

                  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Corel\CorelDRAW\14.0\CorelDRAW\Application Preferences\TextTool

                  and change the LiveText key from 1 to 0

                  oh~ thanks Ariel!!

                  it's good for me!!

                  • Ariel said:

                    No, there's no reason for do it. CorelDRAW must work fine with this option. If not, there's a problem with you system.

                     

                    Anyway, if want to disable this option, go to the Start menu / run... write REGEDIT and press enter. Then, go to

                    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Corel\CorelDRAW\14.0\CorelDRAW\Application Preferences\TextTool

                    and change the LiveText key from 1 to 0

                    Hi Ariel,

                    What you have suggested is about turning on/off Live Text Preview. While the request is to display text object as they are displayed when converted to curves.

                    I said you are right; the problem is in my X3. I thought that the problem was fixed in X4 because text is displayed better in X4, but the problem is still there and the request is valid. See the image below:

                  • Hey Ariel It worked like a charm...thanks

                     

                    • Cleartype tuning effects all text everywhere... at least I thought so. I did a test and it appears to.

                      Some of the graphics cards have extra setting too. Nvida for one.

                      Which is text, paragraph and curves... the CGS shell game.

                      You don't really think we would have let Corel off the hook for 14 versions?

                      • Ahmad Ajlouny said:
                        ClearType Tuning does not affect how CorelDRAW displays text objects.

                        Yani said:
                        Cleartype tuning effects all text everywhere... at least I thought so. I did a test and it appears to.

                        I meant ClearType doesn't affect how CorelDRAW displays text objects in the drawing, here on my XP SP3. Image attached.

                        In the previous attached image, CorelDRAW displays Arial better than the condensed Myriad; almost as curves. So, my X4 displays text better than X3, but not as curves.

                        Yani said:
                        You don't really think we would have let Corel off the hook for 14 versions?

                        Glad I'm the only one facing this problem :)

                        • Can you please tell me where will be the option CLEARTYPE TUNING in Control panel

                           

                          regards

                          ram

                          • pkg_sriram said:

                            Can you please tell me where will be the option CLEARTYPE TUNING in Control panel

                             

                            regards

                            ram

                            What OS system do you have, PKG? If you are still on XP then you need to download ClearType Tuner from Microsoft's site. If you are in Windows 7 simply click on your Start button and type the word "Adjust" in the Search Box. The first result will be "Adjust ClearType Text". Click on that and you will be taken to the wizard for tuning how text displays on your monitor.

                            From memory, in Vista ClearType Text was simply turned on or off, but there were no adjustments. Windows 7 takes you through several pages of sample text blocks and on each page you click on the one which looks best to you on your monitor.

                            Best regards,
                            Brian.

                          •  I do not have any where near the experience as you guys with any of the versions but I am having an entirely differnent result. Perhaps Myriad Pro and Myriad Web Pro are different fonts or the point size changes something. The attached is what I end up with. It was produced in X3

                            • Jack and Yani,

                              I apologize for this question, but I have to make sure: are the images you posted exported from CorelDRAW or captured screen shots?

                              • Good question.

                                Mine is exported. I use a CRT.  I can post a screen shot if you wish. The font I used is a True Type. Myriad Web Pro Condensed. It  was created on Oct 4, 2004

                                • Yes, please. Screen shot would be grate. I appreciate it.

                                  No problems in printing or exporting, although sometimes I get better results if I convert to curves before exporting the text to bitmap from my X3.

                                  The request is to enhance the display of text objects, which seems already enhanced from version 1 ;)

                                  • Ahmad Ajlouny said:

                                    Yes, please. Screen shot would be grate. I appreciate it.

                                    No problems in printing or exporting, although sometimes I get better results if I convert to curves before exporting the text to bitmap from my X3.

                                    The request is to enhance the display of text objects, which seems already enhanced from version 1 ;)

                                     

                                    Maybe I am confused by your statement about conveting to curves for bitmaps.  In your attachement above, are you converting all to curves and calling them Text? Mine are both Text and Curves of the same Fonts Exported to a GIF.

                                    Here is a screen capture or both sets of Fonts in Text and Curves.

                                    • And here is a Capture of the Object manager. Note, the object manager is in the same sequence as the posted image above arranged top to bottom.

                                  • I too am having the same problem with my text.  I just bought a new laptop with a NVIDIA monitor and my text is jumbled when zoomed at certain intervals.  I am running Windows Vista with Corel X3 with the Service Pack 2 installed.  I've tried all these options suggested by everyone and nothing has worked yet.  I am thinking that it is the graphics card, but I can't seem to find where to make any changes to it.  I'm also having problems getting my colors to look like the colors that are on my desktop version.

                                    • OK you should have an icon in the tray for the card. Right click that and there are setting...

                                      If you don't have an icon you don't have all the software loaded.

                                      There were a few... you should see something under the geforce tab. Quality Settings.

                                      • Yani said:
                                        OK you should have an icon in the tray for the card. Right click that and there are setting...

                                        If you don't have an icon you don't have all the software loaded.

                                        There were a few... you should see something under the geforce tab. Quality Settings.

                                        1. NVIDIA Driver Download > Option 2 (Automatically find drivers for my NVIDIA products)
                                        2. Run the detector > Download the latest appropriate driver
                                        3. Install

                                        Driver updated and software installed, but I found no option that affects how CorelDRAW displays text objects.

                                        Thank you Yani for your help and patience.

                                    • Ahmad Ajlouny said:
                                      CorelDRAW should display text objects as if they were curves. I always need to convert text to curves to preview them correctly.

                                      Haven't got the time to check through all the posts in this thread, just want to add that I see what you see, Ahmad.
                                      Text as text, looks different than text converted to curves on my monitors, and has always done so (as far as I can remember).
                                      I've always assumed that text was rendered using some built in font antialiasing (hinting), while curves used CorelDraw's antialiasing engine. Just a guess. Some fonts are worse than others.
                                      I can live with it, but it is a bit disturbing sometimes.

                                       

                                      • Thanks Ronney.

                                        I thought it was CorelDRAW's problem too. Glad it's just 2 of us facing the illustrated below.

                                        • Ahmad Ajlouny said:

                                          I thought it was CorelDRAW's problem too. Glad it's just 2 of us facing the illustrated below.

                                          Actually, it's 3 of us;

                                          Zodiac Signs said:
                                          I too am having the same problem with my text.  I just bought a new laptop with a NVIDIA monitor and my text is jumbled when zoomed at certain intervals.

                                          Zodiac Signs said:
                                          I am thinking that it is the graphics card, but I can't seem to find where to make any changes to it.

                                          I think it's CorelDRAW.

                                          • You won't find the features I'm talking about in that dialogue.

                                            You need to load the nVidia tool that is beyond the driver and creates an Icon in the task bar.

                                            I have a similar issue here with the ATI card which I can't fix now because the CCC (catalyst control) won't load since updating .Net.

                                            On the nVidia you can get total perfect text. Look for the extension to the driver.

                                            http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

                                            Sorry I can't be more helpful but without using that card it's difficult.

                                            • Yani said:

                                              You won't find the features I'm talking about in that dialogue.

                                              You need to load the nVidia tool that is beyond the driver and creates an Icon in the task bar.

                                              I have a similar issue here with the ATI card which I can't fix now because the CCC (catalyst control) won't load since updating .Net.

                                              On the nVidia you can get total perfect text. Look for the extension to the driver.

                                              http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

                                              Sorry I can't be more helpful but without using that card it's difficult.

                                              I posted this link in my previous post. As I stated before, driver updated, software installed (driver extended) and the NVIDIA Setting icon () in the try, but I found no setting that affects how CorelDRAW displays text objects.

                                               

                                              Thank you again for your patience. I'll keep you posted...

                                              • There 'were' 2 settings.

                                                One was anti-aliasing, the other anthropic filtering (or something like that)

                                                They had settings like X1 X2 X4 X8

                                                Is this on a laptop or a desktop?

                                                I noticed the 'LE' after the card name.

                                                I think the nivida forum is the go to sort this out.

                                                 

                                                 

                                                • I've tried Application Controlled, off, 2x, 4x, 8x and 16x for the "Anisotropic filtering" (after Anti-aliasing). Nothing affects CorelDRAW text display.

                                                  It's Dell Dimensions 9200 (Desktop with Dell 1907FP monitor)

                                                  I'll check nVidia forums.

                                                  Thank you Yani :)