I've had my default font set to Adobe Garamond Pro for years. Every upgrade I reset my default font to Adobe Garamond Pro. This morning I open a new document and the default font is Avant Garde. I have been trying to reset the default and as soon as I make any selection of anty font, the selection returns to Arial--not Avant Garde and not the font I am selecting. The only way I am able to change a font is after I've typed something (artistic or paragraph) I have to select the text by inserting the cursor and highlighting it.
1) I've tried rebooting,
2) Changing the default via styles
3) Changing the default via the text tool with nothing selected and with closing all documents and starting a new one without putting the cursor on the page
4) Deactivating the fonts and reactivating them, both through the OS and through Corel font manager
5) I've tried OT fonts and TT fonts
6) I've tried dozens of different fonts
7) Everything works in Illustrator.
8) Once I try to change the font from Avant Garde to something else, it switches to Arial and then I can't even reset it to Avant Garde without closing Corel and reopening it
What gives? Any ideas? This is making me crazy.
Thanks,
Sharon
Have you tried the following:
1) Create a new document
2) Select Text tool
3) Select desired font before you begin typing
4) The Change Document Defaults dialog box will pop up
5) Click on Artistic and paragraph text boxes and click OK
6) Go to Tools Menu and click on Save Settings as Default
7) Save Settings as Default dialog box will show. Under Document Styles click on the Styles box
8) Click Save.
9) Create a new document to try out the new settings
Yep. Those were the first things I tried. Even after reboots and resetting the workspace it still happened. Then I couldn't import anything without a hard crash (no dialog box, no warning, Draw just disappeared from the screen--nothing left running in task manager). Didn't matter the file format or which file I tried import. It was impossible.
I did a clean uninstall and reinstalled and everything is now functioning as it should. Something really bad happened to some critical files for the original installation to suddenly have so many problems.
Thankfully the clean reinstall fixed everything.
Thanks everyone for taking the time to help me with troubleshooting.