So we have two machines running X6 home n student, with the same fonts installed (files were copied from one computer to the other. On the newer install the same font (Vines) has little jagged pieces on the edges of some of the letters, also when we turn it into an outline (Convert to Bitmap, then Trace ->Outline Trace -> Line Art) not only does it have the little jagged edges, it also sometimes flattens out the top and bottom of the curves. While all this is manually fixable, when we are busy this all takes time that we would rather put towards getting more done in a day. Any help is appreciated and any info you need please let me know.
As Mike suggests, the job you are doing would probably be better done by converting the font to curves instead of to a bitmap and then tracing it, But it might still be useful to know why the two machines trace differently.
If the fonts themselves are identical and you don't see those jagged pieces when you zoom in closely, my guess is that either:
Sorry for the slow reply, been a couple of long busy days at work and was unable to do the screenshots.
Attached is an example of what I'm talking about, the bottom is the original font which doesn't show any distortions, the top left is after it's converted and the top right is after its traced n color changed. While these aren't hard problems to fix manually, we do 300+ of these a day between the 2 of us and would greatly save on time and aggravation.
The reason we do the fonts as I've stated is that we use them with a laser to cut custom acrylics and this is the way we were shown. I'm currently trying to find better ways but I'm more versed in Photoshop (which they don't have) and I've only been working on Corel for about 2 weeks. I've cleaned the font cache as well and both machines are windows 7, both running the same X6. The second machine was setup about 6 months after the first and because the "head of the department" lost the font files, I've had to copy them from the other machine bar waiting for them to be re-purchased from the site.
Thanks for your answers and time, much appreciated.