Hello!
I noticed that Corel Draw doesn't show a proper glyph preview of PostScript fonts. It only shows empty glyphs (see screenshot). Other than that this font seems to work fine. When I double click on an empty looking glyph, it will also insert the correct glyph. I just don't see what I'm clicking on.I tried to install the font with Corel Font Manager, but even there I see the same thing in the glyph preview.Is there a way of fixing this? I'd really need to see those glyphs.
Thanks in advance!
I don't think the issue involves Postscript Type 1 fonts. I've seen the same preview glitch with various OpenType fonts too. The bug is annoying, particularly when some kind of symbol font is involved. Sometimes I end up having to open Adobe Illustrator and use its Glyphs palette to access the characters I want. But the font has to be installed into the OS to show up in Illustrator, unlike fonts in a collection folder to be accessed (or ignored) by Font Manager.
Interesting to know. I only have a very ancient version of Illustrator that I never use and I didn't even know it has a glyphs palette. I'll look and see if those fonts work there. For now I'm using the Windows character map, but that's pretty annoying too because it shows the glyphs so small. I have no idea what I could change in the settings of my font program, it all seems correct. So I might have to put up with it.
I can't remember for certain when the Glyphs palette was added to Adobe Illustrator. It could go back to the late 1990's in the versions 7-10 range. I do know the Glyphs palette has been available all through the Creative Suite phase, starting in 2003. That's when full support of OpenType was added to Illustrator. CorelDRAW didn't add proper OpenType support until 2012 with the X6 release. CorelDRAW was a couple or so version cycles behind Adobe with adding OTF Variable font support (and the implementation in CDR 2020 is very choppy). And then there's the new OpenType-SVG format, which allows fonts with colors or fonts with vector or raster-based features. Naturally, Adobe Illustrator already supports the format and even bundles a few SVG Color fonts (Trajan Color and Emoji One are a couple that come to mind). There's a $40 plug-in for Illustrator that will allow users to create their own OTF-SVG color fonts or regular fonts.Anyway, the hedge fund bean counters calling the shots for Corel need to get on the ball and do something to give the CorelDRAW development team more resources it needs to fix bugs and performance issues, like the glitches in the Insert Character palette. The development team also needs enough resources to keep CorelDRAW from falling farther behind Illustrator. Not only that, but they have Inkscape and a host of iPad-based vector drawing applications looking to eat away market share. The market in vector drawing software is pretty competitive right now.
My Illustrator is CS2, so it does have the glyph palette, and it shows those fonts fine.
My problem with Corel Draw is, no matter how much they might improve the program in the future, I'll be stuck with my current version from now on. I'm very very disappointed that they joined the subscription madness. I'm a teacher and have been using Corel Draw for many many years for my work, but nobody pays me for that. I used to skip two or even three versions before getting an upgrade because getting every version would just have been too costly. Getting a subscription and being forced to pay every year is not an option for me. So they lost a customer, and I'm most likely not the only one.
I think the folks at KKR (the owners of Corel now) will eventually be forced to abandon the subscription-only model. Given the paltry feature additions and lackluster improvements over the past couple or so version cycles the $249 per year subscription price is going to make a lot of existing CorelDRAW users stay put with whatever version they own now. I know it’s going that way in the sign industry. If anything there is more and more transitioning over to Adobe’s software in that space. Corel will be forced to do things to entice existing users back to their software. Charging $249 per year for straight subscription or $149 per year for “upgrade protection” is not the way to do it. IMHO, CorelDRAW needs to go back to a 2 year product version cycle with the upgrades open to all users and the upgrades priced at no more than $199. The current “deal” totally stinks.
Glad to hear I'm not alone with my frustration about this.I hope you're right and things will change back to upgrades!!