On a Windows 7 Enterprise machine running as a regular user on a domain, I'm finding that opening even modestly large files takes an enormous amount of time. On my other computers a file that opens in seconds takes over 6.5 minutes to load. Once it's loaded it seems to be okay.
I notice there's CPU and IO activity in a sub-process called FontService.exe. The other thing I've noticed is that the FontDatabase folder appears to be directly accessed from the network .msprofile/AppData/Roaming/Corel/FontDatabase location. There doesn't appear to be any locally cached copy. I'm wondering if the slow times have to do with slow activity over the network. Our network is a gigabit network, but I imagine if there are many small accesses latency could cause this problem.
Is this likely the case? If so, how do I solve it? Is there any way to force CorelDraw to cache a local copy on my SSD? There does appear to be another copy under C:\Program Files\Corel\CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X8\FontDatabase but the modification dates don't change and are very old (probably install times?). As a limited user, I have no writes to modify this folder directly.
Thanks!
Not to my knowledge, it has been improved but for your situation as I've said set CorelDraw to only see installed fonts and system fonts and with your domain it may be best if you archive the fonts on the server for backup but place them on a secondary internal drive on your system.