I have several pages written in paragraph text, all (as far I I know) in ElegaGarmnd BT. However, the Text Statistics says I have used Arial, Batang and ElegaGarmnd BT. I can't find any Arial or Batang anywhere. Can anyone explain what it's seeing? Can I trust anything in the Text Statistics dialogue?
shelley said: I have several pages written in paragraph text, all (as far I I know) in ElegaGarmnd BT. However, the Text Statistics says I have used Arial, Batang and ElegaGarmnd BT. I can't find any Arial or Batang anywhere. Can anyone explain what it's seeing? Can I trust anything in the Text Statistics dialogue?
CorelDRAW includes support to foreign languages, such as eastern laguages. Some fonts (such as Arial, batang, ect) is only used as text style for compatibiliy with other languages.
shelley said:Ariel - This doesn't answer the question. Say you've been cutting and pasting text from other sources and you want to be sure they've all converted to just one font, this won't help you.
I know, this is not what people need. Sometimes, you just need to know what fonts are really used. The information of Text Statistics (and also under File / document properties) include the fonts used on Text Styles, although you didn't see or didn0t never used it. Then, it's not an useful information. I just explained you why those extra fonts are listed.
shelley said:Just out of interest, can you search for fonts within text? As in, it's (genuinely) listing Segoe as a used font, can I find where it is?
Not really. You can use a font only on one word of a paragraph, even only on one "space". Then, the font is used, although you can't see where is used. Sorry
OK, thanks for that, but it's not a case of "sometimes". Don't you "always" need to know what actual fonts are being used?
Ariel said:You can use a font only on one word of a paragraph, even only on one "space".
Any chance of a techie is reading this and offering a solution before we reach Version Z0 (twenty, see what I did there)?
shelley said:OK, thanks for that, but it's not a case of "sometimes". Don't you "always" need to know what actual fonts are being used?
Sincerely, not. I can use Collect for output an it will create a report with the used fonts and a copy of the used fonts on a separate folder.
For what reason I'll need to know the fonts that are being used?. If it's for send to other computer, fonts are embedded on the document, then I don't need to know it. If I send a PDF, fonts are also embedded, then I don't need to know it neither. I only need to know the fonts when I receive a file that doesnt have embedded fonts, but on this case, corelDRAW promprt a list of missing fonts (and allows to install it automatically if I have the font on my computer)
shelley said:What is "Collect"?
that means to reunite all the things relative to the file (the fonts used on the document, linked images, color profiles, etc) and also a copy of the file and/or a PDF .and a text file with the information, all in a new folder.
shelley said:Thanks for that. Just looked into it. Yes, it shows the correct fonts during the dialogue (hurrah!), however it doesn't list these in a file as it says it would (duh!). However Document Properties, below it, doesn't (duh, again). Such a lousy mish mash of information.
Yes, as I said before the problem was about to include the information for compatibity of different languages (such as Middle East, Far East, Cyrillic, Latin, etc) on the same file This information should be hidden, and display only the font acording the used language. Yes, it's a bug or a wrong design, and it should be improved for future releases.
shelley said:Disappointed that Collect for Output only outputs one document at a time. What's the point of that?
This is how it was designed. And this is how it works on other programs also. Anyway, we could think about it and maybe it could be improved. Since each file should have their own linked files, fonts, color profiles, etc it was made for individual files.
btw why do you need all the information about the used fonts for each file?
How about this macro?