Dear Sirs,I've been using Corel DRAW for some time now, and although my use is somehow limited, I learnd some stuff, and to say the truth, I find the program interesting, but my problem is that I use Arabic fonts for graphic perpuses. Till now, my way is to creat the paragraphs in word.doc, print it in PDF, save the PDF to *.ps (postscript) then import it to Corel (in Curves), and it is actually working great, but I only have two arabic fonts to use. All other fonts are rejected by Corel.I already installed the fonts in Corel, and yes they are installed in Windows.Please I need to enlarge my choices to some other fonts (arabic), please can you tell me how to enable these fonts through the same method I'm using, or if there is any other method to have the paragraphs written correctly in Arabic in a Corel Page.I'm using Windows Vista Home Premium and Corel DRAW X3 English.
Make sure you have Service Pack 2 installed on your computer for CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 as we did enhance the support for the Arabic language with that version. You should be able to use any TrueType / OpenType Arabic font in CorelDRAW as long as they are installed on your computer and can use them with other programs such as WordPad.
Gérard
Dear Gérard,
I went to Corel.com and downloaded the hot patch1, CGSX3SP1, CGSX3SP2 and I started to install them, but I only could install the HotPatch1, as for the SP1 and SP2 I run the exe and recieve the message: The upgrade patch can not be installed by the windows installer service because the program to be upgraded may be missing or the upgrade patch may upgrade a different vertion !!
What da HELL !!!!
Help Please...
Jinx.
My full version is: 13.0.0.739
Does that ring any bell, and if this is the SP2, then my problem is not solved yet.
Poor me. !!!
Yes, this is Service Pack 2.
To confirm, you are able to use the fonts with other applications on Windows such as WordPad / Word?
Great, so now I'm supposed to be happy to know that I have SP2, but the issue is still not solved.
I add that I tried yesterday to use direct Arabic inpur to Corel. After changing font and direction, I was able to write correct arabic inside a text box.. the problem is that once I finish and I convert to curves (as I explained later that I need the result in Curves) the sentences change and some letters disapear.
This is a mess, I need to know a simple or complicated way to import documents (phrases) written in arabic (all windows fontes) to Corel in curves !!
Please if you can figuer it out, I would be thankful.