Corel 2019 and now 2020
When selecting the font "dropdown" the names of the fonts are not visible on the screen.
The font is there and can be selected, but you cant see its name before selecting it.
I have an old version 2018 on the same PC and that works fine.
The same thing happened after downloading 2020.
Any help would be appreciated.
I had this problem with CorelDRAW 2019 on my notebook computer at home. The problem is still there in version 2020. The only work-around seems to be displaying all font names in plain text and then using the preview below the font list. I think I'm just going to try re-arrange my font collection and start with only a minimal number of fonts in the target folder and see if that helps it.
Please see my response to ajwh and see if that solution works for you too.
Same for me. I've tried all the suggestions offered and still no font samples to preview. Corel doesn't know either and it was a bug in CD2019 which didn't seem to get fixed in CD2020.
I think two different problems are involved. First, the memory and performance overhead just gets really overbearing if the Font Manager is having to work with several thousand or even tens of thousands of fonts. The other problem is LOTS of fonts out there "in the wild" are poorly designed and/or coded. That especially goes for fonts from freebie font sites like DaFont. They can really bog down performance. Fonts that feature clip art images as character glyphs can really hang Corel's Font Manager. So I've removed any of those from the target folder. I've found if I start out with only high quality commercial fonts and then carefully build out from there the font previews work faster and more reliably.
I agree even when even copying font files in Windows it is time consuming.
Now, one thing I do like about Corel's Font Manager, it seems more, shall we say, reliable, for me to install or uninstall (or activate/deactivate) fonts there than it is from Windows' own built-in fonts folder. The big problem I have with Windows' fonts folder is when I want to uninstall a certain font or font family the OS will occasionally stop me and say the fonts are currently in use. I can literally reboot the computer and have no major applications actually running (other than the 284,985,766 background processes Windows has running) yet the OS will still refuse to uninstall the fonts. I honestly only have an intense hatred for that kind of OS behavior. Corel's Font Manager at least provides some relief from that insanity.
I finally switched from X7 of so many years to v2020 mainly because of the new Corel Font Manager... yes it is SOOOOO much better than the old Font Navigator. It just works. No problems so far and so far so good with v2020. Had a couple crashes the other day, but not sure if that was related to working via VPN. Either way, the workstations on the internal network have been working fine. Keeping fingers crossed and really am QUITE EXHAUSTED fighting that lost cause v2019!!!!!!
PLEASE COREL, KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK WITH 2020! DON'T BREAK IT! yes, there are still many bugs and settings not saving in Trace etc, but let's get this going good this time around!
I agree with Bobby Henderson about the HUGE AMOUNT of useless trash fonts, they're just bad code.