The integration of Corel Font Manager in CorelDRAW where the application by default constantly monitored the font folders and allowed access to fonts in the application even if they were not installed was in my opinion a mistake. Corel listened to some designer some where and made a silly designer mistake. I configure CorelDRAW and CFM to operate like a standard font manager and prefer CFM over Font Navigator due to modern font support.
So which do you vote for? CFM?
Thank you David!
The problem with the default CFM setup is that if you have your fonts on an external drive or a server and do not configure to operate as a standard font manager, (I.E. only using installed fonts) when you remove a laptop from your network to go to a client the fonts will not be available for your file unless you embedded them. The problem with that is that some fonts do not allow embedding and some throw errors when the file with an embedded font is opened on a system that has the font already installed. If you try and integrate 30 or 40,000 fonts with CFM as installed by default your system will crawl or be near useless.
David Milisock said:If you try and integrate 30 or 40,000 fonts with CFM as installed by default your system will crawl or be near useless.
agree. This is why I liked FontNav. I would only install what I needed when I needed. I kep my 40K or so fonts in folders, let FontNav FIND them, but only installed the ones I used most of the time. If I opened a old .cdr file and it popped up missing font message, I would just go and install that font in FontNav. Eeezy breezy. Good idea for CFM though, just toggle INSTALLED and SYSTEM fonts in CorelDraw, NOT ALL OF THEM!
You need to make sure that the font dialog in Draw is set to only see system and installed fonts in the filter. That's key!