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?
Ok here is where it's at so far, I have one more system rebuilding the font data base and that could be all day.
When using CFM in 2019, 2020 and 2 versions of 2021 the font Arvo does not show up at all in the font manager, PERIOD. I can get it to show up if I install it and then launch CFM filtered for installed fonts.
With fonts uninstalled all observations from CorelDRAW
2020 arvo unrecognized, epilog works as expected, fira sans only 3 styles recognized.
With 2021 build 363, arvo not recognized, epilogue works as expected except that the drop down does not return to the selected font, fira sans sees all versions however the drop down does not return to the selected font.
Both epilog and fira sans occasionally default to Arial, I suspect it's because of the lag in the default display setting in the font controls. Using the keyboard to scrool for fonts neither epilog nor fira sans would come to the drop down when called.
I tired and neutralized the font display and still epilog would not return to the selected font fira sans was now fine. The keyboard for epilog was still not working.
The keyboard issue existed even when being careful to launch from a font with no subsets.
2021 506 build, arvo not recognized, epilog works as expected, however the font list does not return to the selected font and on occasion the font will change to Arial, using the keyboard I could get the font to show in the drop down. Fira sans showed up but the drop down would not automatically show the selected font, keyboard selection did get the font to pop up.
With fonts installed using Windows Explorer as CFM could not see the Arvo font, build 506.
Everything worked as expected.
Here are the results from a new install of 506 all default settings. Fonts are not installed.
Arvo font is seen in CFM and Draw but not recognized as a font.
Epilog is also seen by both but only a few versions are recognized and unusable as a variable font.
Fira Sans is seen by both programs but not recognized as a font.
Same result if CFM is running or not.
Here are the results from the same system with the fonts installed using CFM.
All fonts are seen and recognized as fonts, everything work except keyboard scrolling. I suspect this is due to this system lacking resources as it is a low powered laptop kept around just for testing and client presentations.
As we can see from version, 2019 to 2021 with two builds of 2021 CFM is with these fonts unpredictable at best. It can be used to install these fonts however if it is used to uninstall some fonts, they my become invisible to CFM in the future ergo it will require you to locate and install them via Windows Explorer.
This is typical behavior from this font manager as shown from version X8 forward.
Simone Hannemann has been in touch from Corel this morning and sent me a link to download the original version of Corel 2021. I've installed this and Update 1, but not the subscriber update, and everything is working perfectly again. I have asked her to share the link on here for others who are having problems, as it was a Onedrive link and i'm not sure if it can be shared publicly.
Meanwhile, other font-related bugs have been persisting for at least the last couple versions of CorelDRAW. The CorelDRAW application and its Font Manager will misread the installed weights of certain typefaces, changing the italic weights of some fonts into their vertical counterparts or vice versa. I've even seen these errors occur with fonts synced via the Adobe Fonts service. Some of the bugs are bad enough that weights of some typefaces will disappear from other applications if CorelDRAW is running.
Keep us posted please. We did what you did and while it fixed our immediate issue we found that it broke a few other features making it untenable.