I was trying to use Corel Connect to install fonts and have found it's definitely hit or miss. Some fonts you right click on and they install just fine, others, like one I really want, acts like it installs (it downloads) but they never show up in the font list. These are not the 'premium' fonts, just the normal standard ones.
An example, I wanted the Helvetica set, I go to the font, right click, say install font family, it launches a little download box and done. But I never get a green check on the font, and the font is not on my system. Some other fonts, same thing except you get the checkmark and the font installed.
Again, these are all labeled as 'standard membership' fonts, they just don't work. Tried from inside CD and with the standalone app. Same problem. Yes, I'm signed in. Anyone know how this works or what might be blocking this? I'm sure it has to do with activation or membership--that seems to be the root of all problems.
Am not liking CD x6 very much. Lots of issues, hate this membership thing, flaky, weird performance problems, updates fail.
I think downloading fonts requires the Bitstream font navigator to be installed and working.
In the test I just did, I downloaded one of those Helvetica fonts and it immediately appeared in the font list of the document that was open at the time. Yet looking at fontnav, the file only appears in the left panel -- in other words, it is an available font but is not an "installed" font so far as windows is concerned.
Once you have the font in a document, the font should be dynamically installed whenever you open that document. But possibly to ensure it is included in the font list of new documents, you may need to go into fontnav, select the newly downloaded fonts and move them to the right panel so they now behave as fully-installed fonts.
Just tried opening font navigator, the test fonts (Helvetica family) do not show up at all in either list. The fonts look like they're just not installing. If I try again in Connect, it doesn't even show the download box. Some fonts download and install, some don't, it seems random.
CurtK said:If I try again in Connect, it doesn't even show the download box.
Not sure where you mean by the download box, but I'm seeing a little green tick against the fonts that I have already downloaded -- and even with those fonts, I still get the "install" option that lets me download them again.
I dont get the little green ticks (I did on some of the fonts that installed, but when I closed and reopened Connect they're all gone now). The downloan box happens quickly, if you right click on a font and choose Install Family you get it a little longer, its the box that pops up for a couple of seconds that shows the download progress and then disappears--then supposedly it puts on the little green check (my doesn't anymore). It happens on the first time I do a download of a font, but then never again, whether it installs or not.
Okay, I found out what it's doing. Since this is a computer on a domain, my profile and user directory is on the network. Corel is downloading the fonts to its Corel Content directory in the Documents library, which is on the server. The fonts are all there, but not in Windows. I would assume this is because its on the network, not local (Windows profile and information for things like fonts are generally either local in Windows, or part of the local (non roaming) profile). This is probably causing the issue, Corel is not installing them as fonts, its trying to use it's own location and I suppose link to that content--which would not work right if the computer loses connection.
If I just right click and install these I get the fonts put into Windows (still no little green checks though). What they should really do if they have to keep their fonts separate (why I don't know) is to put them in the Local Non Roaming user profile which would be on the C: drive and link from there.
At least I know now its a two step process I can just do manually. Its a pain, but it works.
It shouldn't particularly matter that the font is on a network drive, unless the network itself is unreliable or you don't have sufficient access permissions on the network drive.
But I'm more puzzled that you said the font did not appear in fontnav. That I think is the problem, not that the font is stored on a network drive.
And in my case, the fonts were not installed into the documents library, but into the folder where I installed the fonts from the X6 DVD -- a folder which fontnav already knows about.
Have you done the X6.3 update, and did it prompt you to rebuild your fontnav catalogue when you installed the update?
I can't get to the 6.2 or 6.3 updates because when it pops up the box, the continue button doesn't work. The website also won't let me manually download them--I log in just fine (i'm registered, and a member, and it shows my products and everything), but then when I try to download the patch, it takes me back to logon and then puts up a red error box (no useful info, just a red box with an X in it). Trying to login at that point just keeps failing. If I close the browser and login again it works fine, but then if I try to download a patch, it bombs out again. That's a whole other problem.
I'm about done with Corel I think. It used to be my favorite program, but it's been nothing but a problem lately.