Hello!
I almost bought Corel 2018 and then I thought - hey best to try trial first! I am glad I did.
other than being very slow,
I am puzzled about how the interface has this awful font, it is blurry and whatnot.
I have disabled cleartype in Windows because I hated it. I am of one of the group with eyes that will not work with Microsoft's cleartype. (I have too good color sight I guess and I have astigmatism) so cleartype give me headache and strained eyes.
Now, Corel 2018 seems to have some kind of strange effect with the fonts.
I have set the fonts in Windows (version 7) to use Tahoma which is friendly for my eyes.
But it looks like corel is ignoring system font. Boo! (disrespectful to people with special needs)
What can I do to get Corel to honor my choices set in Windows system and use fonts from that? And not try to make its own?
If this is not resolved I will stay with X8.
Picture show 2018 and Notepad. Note that Notepad honor Windows settings with the fonts and rendering (look at the menu item text on NotePad - Good there). But Corel2018 go its own way and you can see how awful it looks.
also please do not tell me to make font larger. I do not want to do that because it would make my workflow bad and it would steal much space.
I found solution myself!
corelapp.ini edit! :)
Now over to the slowness. hmm.
Would you please share what you changed in corelapp.ini?
Perhaps an "after changes" screenshot to show how things look different now in the CorelDRAW UI?
corelapp.ini was found in user directory, then appdata\roaming\corel\Coreldraw graphics suite 2018\Config
Open the file with notepad.
Find the line FontRasterizer and set it to ZERO.
After: it looks like earlier versions of Corel. Looks similar to X8 what I had.Remember this is how it looks like on MY setup, where I disabled cleartype.
Thank you for sharing.
In order to get Tahoma instead of Segoe in CorelDRAW, I also had to make some Registry changes.
There were a few things I didn't like, so I changed it back - but it was interesting to try.
I have never felt really good about ClearType. Some things look better to me with it switched on (some of the CorelDRAW UI), but many things on my system look worse. I normally leave it switched off, and live with "soft" text in some parts of the CorelDRAW UI.
If you want tahoma and have Windows 7 I can help you with this: www.neowin.net/.../
I am sticking to Windows 7 as the newer Windows render fonts in a unsatisfactory way. I tried to install windows 10 but it wasn't respecting my choices everwhere (despite applying all kinds of workarounds and hacks) so I could not stand it so I downgraded to 7 again. It is a pity because I can't be using 7 forever.