Text Expanding

Hi,

Having a bit of a strange trouble. When I open up my colleagues files (where, on their computers, the text is perfectly in line with rulers and the other items on the page) mine is stretched out and does not fit where it should. This is the spacing between each of the characters which has increased, yet it says that the spacing between each characters is at 0.00, so that it should appear the same. This has applied itself to all text (its artistic text) across the page and is not something I have applied to just one text box.

Tried for a long time to solve this, so we uninstalled it and re-installed and its still happening.

What options are there I could check to see what would change the whole text of a document (and why would the setting remain between re-installing?!)

 

Any help would be appreciated, I've tried to explore lots of different text spacing options but everything I can see so far appears normal.

Here is what I see:

On the other computers, the text appears in line with the boxes and such...

    • Are you seeing any font substitution messages when you open the file? You need to check this on both computers

      Are both computers running X7 ?

      What is the font? And does it show as the same font if you select one character from the font?

      • No, no messages on either computer. Or errors at all.

         

        Yes both are running X7. This is Windows 8 (not professional) and the other computers opening it fine are also Windows 8 and windows VISTA.

        The font is Arial (normal).

        • When I select a character, it is still Arial, it doesn't change.

          • The word Greenfield in your example looks more like Arial Narrow than Arial, but is probably being spaced to conform with Arial spacing.

            But I think if CorelDraw is not showing a substitution, it probably means that windows is saying it has Arial but is actually delivering Arial Narrow. This is typical windows behaviour -- if a font is missing, it will happily use any other font without even warning you that it has done so.

            Which machine actually has the problem? If its the vista machine, then possibly http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=16083 might fix it.

            • Yes I think it is Arial Narrow, but that's the only exception. Its not very narrow with all those characters spaced apart! Its the Windows 8 machine. The vista is fine, and so is the other Windows 8.

               

              Thanks for your suggestions so far.

              • Can you post the file, or part of it, for checking?

                If the file is under 256Kb you can do that in the options tab when you reply. You can probably ensure the file is under 256Kb by deleting unnecessary detail, making a copy with "save as" and turning off the colour profile. Make sure you remove anything that is confidential, or replace it with placeholder text.

                • Okay, that's great thankyou.

                   

                  I couldn't embed the fonts as they were too large. I hope that's not a problem here.

                   

                   

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