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.
That's a problematic feature for sure. I can see the font display but when using it the scrolling can at times be painfully slow. Buggy code! That's why Injust use Corel Font Manager as a stand alone font viewer.
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 do rag on the font manager however in reality there are tons of fonts way more than needed and WAY TOO many that are created improperly.
I get font variety I do but when you look at the huge amounts of illegible graphics in use today it's scary. Logos that are not easily identifiable, packaging that's designed backwards and using illegible fonts is a double whammy.