It's often said that the number of fonts you have loaded on your system the slower Corel will be. I haven't had much of a need to reduce my number of fonts as I either haven't experienced any lag or I just have gotten used to the speed at which the software runs. We usually download fonts onto our network so each designer has access to them as needed. I've always just navigate to the font, right click choose install. Any other method doesn't make sense to me. "Don't actually load the fonts" . So when I'm designing I can't experiment with what fonts look best? How would you use a font without it being installed first?
Well if memory serves you're running Windows 7 Pro with 32 GB of RAM and Draw X7, so my discussion will focus there. X8 and forward requires different discussions.
When I was there I used FontNavigator to look for fonts that I Iiked and installed them. Right click the server archive file and install. I would clean up fonts 2 or 3 times a year from Windows. With 32 YB of RAM 1,200 or more fonts won't hurt.
Now going forward Corel in X8 introduced Corel Font Manager. This discussion in X8 and newer. The feature you want is KIND OF AVAILABLE with a configuration and performance cost.
If you use the font viewing WITHOUT installing feature, to have a system that's viable I suggest all fonts be stored locally on a secondary SSD. This coupled with an i7 or i9 and a minimum of 32 YB of RAM and a 4 GB video card will be as good as it gets.
Trying this over a multi user GB network will be PAINFUL! Adobe and Corel both have performance issues with their new font management.
You can configure CorelDRAW and Corel Font Manager to work like Font Navigator so you can function like normal.
This is how I handle it, for 95% of my system time I set CFM and CorelDRAW like X7 and Font Navigator and do simple font searches in CFM like I did in FN.
When the searches and design are critical the changes that need to be made in CorelDRAWs font filters can be done and then undone fairly quickly.
Those changes will cripple a system searching over a network but in my experiance is not the greatest but workable as long as you disable the use font to view setting in the font drop down dialog.
Yeah, I found a video that covers the new way of handling fonts within Corel without having them in the system directory. We're all dinosaurs here and haven't took the plunge yet. I really don't think we need to worry about it at this point.