I've been having a font problem on my office computer with CorelDraw that has made it nearly impossible to use CorelDraw. I started having this problem with CorelDraw 2020, when CorelDraw 2021 came out I upgraded thinking that would fix it, it hasn't. I run Windows 10 Pro 64bit 20H2 fully updated. I have tried every single suggestion I could find online and nothing works at all. I tried the sfc, I tried uninstalling and reinstalling fonts. I fully uninstalled CorelDraw and the removed all registry, hidden files, databases, etc. Started Corel Font Manager holding down F8, Uninstalled and reinstalled nearly everything including all of the Microsoft C++, etc, etc, etc. I do NOT have any issues in an other software such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, MS Word, Inkscape, etc. This is ONLY happening in CorelDraw and in 2 versions of CorelDraw. CorelDraw was fully, painstakingly and meticulously uninstalled 100%. As I mentioned, Windows is fully up to date and passed sfc and I tried the dsim too.
So here's the problem: CorelDraw seems to think that all the fonts are Arial or Times. There are 1,300 fonts and a few of them work properly but a majority only work as Arial mostly and some as Times. Below are 4 screen shots and I am showing 4 fonts: Birds of Paradise, High School USA Sans, Back to the Future and Waltograph. As you can see in the screenshots they all display as Arial font. If I open art that I have done on another computer with the proper font and open on this computer, it will change them to Arial!! I have deleted CorelDraw's font database, rebuilt in Corel Font Manager. I tried every suggestion for the Microsoft's "Creator Update". I have tried everything possible. The only thing that works is to just not use CorelDraw. I'm not so great with Illustrator though. I really hope that someone can help me fix this problem, this has been many months.
Thank you!
Jim
The 2020 and 2021 versions of CorelDRAW definitely DO have font handling issues. I have some expensive commercial fonts that don't work 100% properly. In one 60 font super family called Vito (6 weights, 5 widths & matching italics) all of the bold upright weights only show up as italic. I literally have to uninstall the 5 bold italic weight widths to get the upright weights to work. That's a lousy solution. The type family works properly in all other applications (and in CorelDRAW 2019 and earlier). Another example is certain weights of Helvetica Neue are hidden in the font menu; I have to select the italic weight and then unclick the "I" icon on the tool bar to get the upright weight to show.There is a slight possibility part of the blame goes to Microsoft for how Windows itself handles large type families. Simply put, the OS still thinks there are only 4 weights of any given type family (regular, italic, bold and bold-italic). Tricky things have to happen under the hood for the OS to understand super families that can have 90 or more cuts.Finally, some of the problems are the fault of the fonts themselves. Not all fonts are created equal. There is a lot of junk out there. Font files that are corrupt, poorly made or badly converted from other font formats may fail to "render" in CorelDRAW. The font shows up looking like Arial. Fonts with various errors will degrade CorelDRAW performance. Picture fonts (fonts with clip art or complicated symbols as letter glyphs) are very problematic. I've grown very picky about what type families I'll include in a target folder for Corel's Font Manager to "see."
CFM has had issues since it has been included with the application, so I work the old school way. I'll also say font embedding is something that I avoid completely.