This looks very much like the cause of the problem that Mike Ver Duin is having at http://community.coreldraw.com/forums/t/33943.aspx
Is anybody else finding their fontnav (64 bit or otherwise) is diagnosing italic fonts as duplicates?
My details:
X6 installed on newly delivered 64 bit win 7 professional (with all available windows updates).
Asked fontnav to find fonts from D:\Users\Public\Documents\Corel\Content X6\Fonts (as installed from X6 DVD).
The catalogue shows at most two fonts from each family of four:
Going to file > Settings > Duplicate Fonts shows the reason: the regular and italic versions of the font have been improperly detected as duplicates of each other.
It applies equally to the fonts on the Corel CD and those already installed in windows, including standard fonts such as Times New Roman.
OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 ProfessionalVersion 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601Other OS Description Not AvailableOS Manufacturer Microsoft CorporationSystem Name PCS2System Manufacturer System manufacturerSystem Model System Product NameSystem Type x64-based PCProcessor AMD A8-3870 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics, 3000 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 1901, 08/02/2012SMBIOS Version 2.6Windows Directory C:\WindowsSystem Directory C:\Windows\system32Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume2Locale United KingdomHardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7601.17514"User Name PcS2\HarryTime Zone GMT Daylight TimeInstalled Physical Memory (RAM) 16.0 GBTotal Physical Memory 15.5 GBAvailable Physical Memory 13.3 GBTotal Virtual Memory 31.0 GBAvailable Virtual Memory 28.6 GBPage File Space 15.5 GBPage File C:\pagefile.sys
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I'm having the same problem, except that for me it seems to be working correctly on my 64 bit desktop (at least I haven't noticed any fonts misbehaving there yet), but not working on my 32 bit laptop where several fonts are showing only two of the four fonts on the group.
Does anyone know if Corel have acknowledged that this is actually a recognised problem and is going to get fixed.
Claude Peloquin said: you will have to rebuild your catalog.
That sounds logical, because it is clear that the old catalog had problems. But fontnav currently requires the user to find the db and delete it manually. There are other circumstances where the catalog needs rebuilding.
Perhaps as part of the fix you could add a "rebuild catalog" checkbox to the Find Fonts dialogue.
harryLondon said:Perhaps as part of the fix you could add a "rebuild catalog" checkbox to the Find Fonts dialogue.
I think this is a good idea. I'll mention it but this is unlikely to happen because it require a lot more effort that you would think. (translation, quality assurance, ui design, etc...)
Just wondering if there was any news on this yet? I'm being driven nuts by constant font problems right now. I've tried Nexus but unfortunately we have an archive of about 60000 fonts and Nexus is painfully slow to start and to run as a result. If i could find another font management program that ran in a similar way to BFN (I.e., maintained a simple database of all fonts) with or without auto installation, i'd be buying it immediately.
scarrott said:Just wondering if there was any news on this yet?
I know this will be fixed in the next Update. I can't tell (and don't know) when the next update will be out.
scarrott said: If i could find another font management program that ran in a similar way to BFN
You can use an older version of BFN until the update is out.
Claude Peloquin said:I know this will be fixed in the next Update. I can't tell (and don't know) when the next update will be out.
Let's hope soon!
This is turning into a nightmare for me. I'm working away from my office for two weeks and now FM is only showing Arial in bold and bold italic and isn't showing Verdana at all. Really not good when I'm trying to design websites!
IF you can, uninstall Bitstream and install Nexus. I'm working with 7000+ fonts on my local system with no impact on speed. Others have had issues with network drives or 10s of thousands of font, but if you are like me that shouldn't be a problem. Search NexusFont. It is free. (although I donated after the headache it saved me)
At least until it gets fixed by corel.
Well uninstalling FN turned out to be interesting! It looks like it deleted all the fonts it was having a problem with - at least it deleted Arial roman and italic and all four Verdana fonts. Luckily I could borrow another PC to copy those back to my laptop and they're now working correctly, but God knows what other fonts got deleted. I won't be able to check until I get back to my office in the middle of next week.
RoyReed said:Well uninstalling FN turned out to be interesting! It looks like it deleted all the fonts it was having a problem with - at least it deleted Arial roman and italic and all four Verdana fonts. Luckily I could borrow another PC to copy those back to my laptop and they're now working correctly, but God knows what other fonts got deleted. I won't be able to check until I get back to my office in the middle of next week.
If you can 'borrow' someones font directory and put it on your machine as an 'extra fonts' folder, then point nexus to it, the fonts will be available without installing all of them.
Thanks for the suggestion, but if I install another font manager it will be FontExpert.I really wish Corel would do a deal with Proxima to get the same sort of integration that should happen with FontNav and does happen with FontExpert for Adobe products.