My work runs CorelDRAW X4 on Windows 7 OS. I have run across an issue with Helvetica where CorelDRAW won't let me use Helvetica's font family options. I am able to use Helvetica normally but unable to access options such as bolding or italics. All of the options are available in other programs. It's only CorelDRAW that gives me trouble.
The fonts all seem to be installed correctly. I've uninstalled and reinstalled them numerous times to no effect. It only seems to be Helvetica that is effected, but I haven't done an extensive search to pinpoint other fonts that may have problems. The company I work for uses Helvetica Bold in quite a few of its projects, so I've been working hard trying to get it up again.
The only other indication that anything is wrong is when I go to select Helvetica from the font drop-down menu, the name "Helvetica" is not visible. There is a space where it belongs that I can select and that will allow me to use Helvetica normally, just without the style options.
If anyone is able to help me with this issue, it would be much appreciated.
Hello theLackwit; What type of font is the Helv. you are using, are you using "Font Navigator"? You could go to one of the Free font down load sites and down load a "TTY" that should work.
My Thoughts George
Sorry I forgot to mention the type of font. It is a Type 1 font, which I understand from looking it up previously can cause some problems with Windows 7. However other Type 1 fonts seem to work just fine, and when I uninstalled and reinstalled the fonts however many times, I did it in the same way with the same result of Helvetica being the only font effected adversely.
I'm not using Font Navigator. I'm not sure if it came with the software. My boss installed CorelDRAW on the machine I'm using before I started at the company a few weeks ago. He said he had a lot of difficulties with the licensing of the software for thebusiness so I'm not sure whether Font Navigator fell by the wayside and I'm also not sure of the extent to which I can add or change things as concerns CorelDRAW without stepping on any toes in that regard.
Also, I'm sorry but I'm not overly familiar with all the terms. Can you clarify what a 'TTY' is for me?
theLackwit said:It is a Type 1 font
In that case, you have to check that you have a PFM and a PFB for every variant (normal, bold, italic, bold-italic) so a total of 8 files.
You should definitely not also have a TTF version of helvetica in the windows font folder if you are using type 1 fonts.