Corel randomly missing vowels?

I've been using Corel X8 for about 2 months (previous versions for about 18 years) and just today noticed that I am randomly missing vowels. This is *not* the Adobe import / ligature issue. This is text that was copied from a Word Doc sent by a customer, and the pasted in Corel X8. The text appears fine on the screen. But today Employee was mployee, Project was Proj ct, quality was qualit, and programmatic was progr mmatic. It is leaving a blank space, so if the item I lasered was flat and square, I can put it back in the machine. I can take the same text from the same file, and just break it apart until all I have are the missing vowels, and they engrave fine. I haven't updated the print drivers for my Xenetech lasers since December, so nothing changed there. I don't know if this a Corel Draw issue, or a Windows 10 issue. Converting all text to curves seems to work, but the vowels are not missing in every file, or even the same letter in the same word! For my mployee, I engraved 2 items with the same layout, and the first E was only missing on one of them. I do not know what the pattern is yet, if there even is one. I seem to recall that Corel Draw 11 (?) had an issue with never wanting to engrave the letter I, so I had to convert all text to curves before engraving. Has anyone else had their Corel Draw X8 suddenly start losing vowels?

0 David Bevins over 7 years ago

Man I so want to make a wheel of fortune joke about buying a vowel....moving on.

Rachel if you could print one of these to a printer on a plain letter sized sheet of paper do they print, or are letters also dropped? If they do, I wonder if this is just on on screen display problem. My somewhat wild guess is that the line spacing in the original Word document is odd such that there isn't enough distance between the lines for the font to display correctly on screen and it is somehow coming into Draw. If they also don't print as well as don't display on screen I am stumped. And as sending it to the laser is akin to printing, I am probably in the stumped category. Others may have an idea, but some more info might help.

Does changing the font change their display behavior? Does changing the font size up or down change their display behavior? Does Zooming in or out change anything?

The next time you are copy and pasting from word and notice one of these vowel missing text segments. Try opening notepad, paste it there, copy from there and paste back into Draw. If this results in the vowels now showing, pasting into and out of notepad has stripped some formating from Word and giving you just plain text.
Cancel
Up 0 Down

Reply

Verify Answer

Cancel
0 rachel awardsatlanta over 7 years ago in reply to David Bevins

We've already said that the customers have to start paying extra for vowels...

The layout *always* displays correctly in Corel. Sending the same layout to the laser twice has not yet resulted in the same vowels being missing. Printing the layout to a paper printer has worked as expected. One of the layouts that dropped vowels had in fact already been run through notepad to get rid of unneeded formatting. We do that as a matter of course for about 95% of our layouts anyway.

What's really getting me, is I can't find that pattern. One minute I'm engraving an mployee award, and 2 minutes later, the exact same file engraves as Employee.
Cancel
Up 0 Down

Reply

Verify Answer

Cancel
0 David Bevins over 7 years ago in reply to rachel awardsatlanta

They display correctly on screen. Printing to paper works. You're stripping formating via notepad. The only thing here is whatever driver your sending the text to for the laser cutter. It seems like it would have to be in there someplace. Maybe there is some spool setting that could be tweaked. Sorry I don't have more. Good luck. Maybe somebody else will chime in.
Cancel
Up 0 Down

Reply

Verify Answer

Cancel
0 rachel awardsatlanta over 7 years ago in reply to David Bevins

considering that I have engraved thousands of jobs since I last updated my print drivers, I'm rather disinclined to believe that they are at fault. It may been some Windows update, rather than Corel. It was just very odd to have 2 different jobs randomly lose vowels on the same day. If every time I sent a job it did the same odd thing, I'd think that there was something going on with the file. If I had the same error in multiple jobs, then I might think it was my printer drivers. But honestly, they either work, or don't. I've not had any sporadic issues with them. I was just hoping that someone else had missing letters, and maybe had figured out why they were missing.
Cancel
Up 0 Down

Reply

Verify Answer

Cancel
0 rachel awardsatlanta over 7 years ago

argh, it's not just vowels, I think that may have been a coincidence. I just heard that last Tuesday Atlanta turned into Atla ta. Same issue, layout looks correct in Corel, but a letter is just not engraved, instead there is a blank space where it ought to be.
Cancel
Up 0 Down

Reply

Verify Answer

Cancel