For the last few weeks i've been having a problem where a seemingly completely random selection of fonts just won't work in Corel. These are 'not installed' fonts in a location that is monitored by Font Manager. The fonts show fine in Font Manager, and in the font list in CorelDraw. They even preview correctly at the bottom of the font list. However, when chosen, the text jumps back to arial. There seems to be no consistency in the type of font, and sometimes some members of a font family work and others don't.
Just to clarify how we are set up, we use OneDrive to synchronise fonts between all users here. We have a folder called Active Fonts on each computer which is synchronised by Onedrive. When someone uses a new font, they add the font to this drive and Onedrive then updates the local folder on everyones computer. It avoids having thousands of fonts on a network drive which really slowed things down, keeps the fonts the same for all users, and has been working perfectly for a few years now.
I've made a little video showing this behaviour. As you can see, the majority of fonts are wokring fine, but a significant number just revert to Arial, and there doesn't seem to be any logical reason. The video is at:
https://vimeo.com/640302962
I've tried repairing Corel, uninstalling and reinstalling Corel, resetting the font database, but nothing helps. Any ideas what is going on here?
Ello, I think i've the same problem!!!
Glad it's not just me! I've been banging my head against the wall for a couple of weeks with this, but there was nothing on the forum so I thought it might just be me. A colleague had it happen to him for the first time the other day, so i figured it must be more widespread.
OK, so this problem is already starting to cost us money. We have had a file today that was opened as normal, saved as a PDF and sent to print. There were no warnings when the file was opened, but in one part of the document, the font used failed to open and changed to Arial. The customer is now wanting a reprint. I would be grateful if someone could look into this issue urgently please and let me know if there is any fix, as this has the potential to be an extremely expensive issue if this happens on a larger job.
First why would you sync fonts with OneDrive? Try this, place all fonts on the local system, install the fonts you want to use into Windows. DO NOT embed fonts into your CorelDRAW file.
We do this so that everyone has the exact same fonts on their computer and available to Font Manager, but without having to have 3600 fonts installed, or having to pull 3600 fonts in from a network drive.
We have 6 members of staff all needing to be able to open and edit customer files. We used to have to spend hours messing about with staff having to download and install fonts when they wanted to open a file someone else had made, to then find out they've installed a fractionally different version of the same font which has messed up the file. Onedrive is a very simple way to ensure that the 'active fonts' folder has exactly the same font files in it on every computer. As soon as I drop a few new font files into this folder, they are automatically synced into the active fonts folder on all other users computers. Font manager then sees the new fonts and makes them available to Coreldraw. It's worked perfectly for around 2-3 years, until now.
I don't think this has anything to do with OneDrive, not least because Claudio seems to be having the same issue. As far as Font Manager is concerned, the Active Fonts folder is just a normal folder on my C drive.