Hopefully there is some kind of documentation on the fixes and updates to CFM for the 2017 version. I've still not gone on to using it due to the limit on number of fonts.
Would appreciate a link if available.
Suku
Hello Ronny,
Surprised that this thread, almost 5 months old now, has resurfaced.But to answer your question, fonts are on a standalone system, so local. even tried putting them on an SSD with just a marginal improvement.The note on the Corel Font Service that you mentioned, could also be a part of the problem. its always running in the background and therefore when the number of fonts go up, it just can't keep up and slows down everything Corel.This is like a hostage situation...with Corel and CFM/Service, like Windows and IE was, until a couple of years and a few lawsuits ago.Before anyone gets sarcastic, I suggest you throw a folder with 50K+ fonts at CFM and sit back and ENJOY the show. I've heard the 'Oh. but i need only (put your number here) fonts to run my business", far too often. Me, I probably need a million or more! :) to be able to find even the most obscure font ever, and satisfy the client. To me the client is king. I do not ridicule the client/designer, be it a customer designing his stuff at home with some basic software, or another designer using another tool like Illy. I work with them and resolve the issues and eventually deliver every time. Have done for decades now.Those who say there's no speed difference whatsoever from the days of DFM and now CFM are just pulling the wool over your eyes in their blind loyalties to a program. BFN and CFM are two totally different animals. I'm sure there's a ton of real people out there doing real work who understand what I mean. Too bad these folks don't speak up more often.Free fonts and the like are here to stay, and a lot of folks are going to be using them, regardless if Corel or anyone else likes them or not. Agreed, quite a few of them are error prone and faulty and all that, but the software just need to get smarter at error handling.Think about it. A simple FREE browser is able to display all those 'error infested fonts' without any problems whatsoever, yet a sophisticated $500+ software with a state-of-the-art font service running in the background cannot?Bottom line, we all want this software to work and work reasonably well, is all, No excuses or workarounds.This post most probably might invite an uproar from the diehards, but that's fine with me.Me, I'm wisely investing more and more of my time with Illustrator, Affinity and other such, just so one misbehaving program (CorelDRAW) does not hijack my workflow. There's a ton of things Illy can do which Corel cannot and the reverse is also true, though to a much lesser extent. So don't pride yourself on "I can do everything Illy does with Corel". YOU CANT. You just limit yourself when you get stuck with either one. A designer never lets a tool limit his potential. He just chooses the tool best suited to get the job done.
Hey David Bevins,
Rest assured, there are hundreds, if not thousands of users in the same boat as you are. I'm there too. [:)] [Y]
But thanks to Corel, Our boat is sinking!! [*-)]
David all you need do to make CorelDRAW work well is in the font drop down set your filter as in the image placed in this post. CorelDRAW then only sees the fonts loaded in the Windows font folder, which is in my view the only correct way.
Corel Font Manager is another application you can launch it and load fonts from there the performance of this application for me is OK but I'm fussy about cleaning up junk and ony have 10,000 fonts.
So since you filter Draws performance is ok but the font manager is not satisfactory?