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 it really makes any difference if the OTF file has Postscript or TrueType based outlines. The font preview in the Insert Character palette can be buggy in unpredictable ways. Sometimes the characters aren't visible at all. At other times the characters may be only partially visible; I'll often see it only showing a portion of the left side of the glyph. Adjusting the size preview slider doesn't do anything to help.
The strange thing is, it did work with my font with TrueType based outlines. For several reasons I had to redo it as Postscript. All the settings are the same, only the format has changed. And it doesn't work. That's why I thought the PostScript format was the reason.But since you say that you've seen it before with other fonts, who knows what the actual reason is. All I know is, it's annoying.Thanks for your explanations!
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.
So your font is an OTF with postscript outlines correct? I may have missed it can you tell me what font you're using? Also what language version of CorelDRAW and Windows + the version of Windows please.