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\TextTooland 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
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\TextTooland 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,
<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?
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
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Corel\CorelDRAW\14.0\CorelDRAW\Application Preferences\TextTool
and change the LiveText key from 1 to 0
<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\TextTooland change the LiveText key from 1 to 0
oh~ thanks Ariel!!
it's good for me!!
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:
That looks like you haven't set up cleartype font rendering.
Control Panel Cleartype Tuning.
Ahmad. I still have Version 3 on my computer also and I am not having your problem. I can simulate it by placing a hairline outline on the text that is coverted to curves. Have you checked to see if one has an outline and one does not. Could a default setting be different for each.
EDIT: I was off checking the situation and typed this without seeing Yani's post. I would bet he is correct.
Yani said: That looks like you haven't set up cleartype font rendering. Control Panel Cleartype Tuning.
ClearType Tuning does not affect how CorelDRAW displays text objects. Does your CorelDRAW X4 display text as curves?
BTW: You should convince Jeff to use ClearType.
Heh, guys... Live Text feature in X4 has nothing to do with the difference between whether a font is still a font, or converted to curves. That is different issue.
Besides, I use CRT. Clear type is no value for me...
Ahmad Ajlouny said:BTW: You should convince Jeff to use ClearType.
Jeff Harrison said:Besides, I use CRT. Clear type is no value for me...
I didn't know that.
LCD vs. CRT Displays Q. Will ClearType improve text display on CRT monitors? A. Yes, but less so than with LCD displays. Because a standard cathode-ray tube (CRT) screen uses an electron beam to activate pixels, ClearType does not provide the same benefits that you experience on an LCD screen. However, because ClearType still applies a form of filtering similar to traditional antialiasing, you may see some improvement when enabling ClearType on a CRT screen.
Q. Will ClearType improve text display on CRT monitors?
A. Yes, but less so than with LCD displays. Because a standard cathode-ray tube (CRT) screen uses an electron beam to activate pixels, ClearType does not provide the same benefits that you experience on an LCD screen. However, because ClearType still applies a form of filtering similar to traditional antialiasing, you may see some improvement when enabling ClearType on a CRT screen.
Hey Ariel It worked like a charm...thanks
Another example:
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.
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.
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 :)