Hi, all. I recently had a problem crop up at my office - text within a .cdr file that I was working on cooperatively with a co-worker displayed differently on our computers. It turned out that we had different versions of the main font that was used in the file; they looked more or less the same, but subtle differences in the versions added up, resulting in a noticeably different look when it was opened on each of our PCs.
So, my question is, are different font versions a common problem? I wouldn't have thought to look for this as the source of the difficulty, but someone over at the CorelDraw newsgroup suggested that I look at the "modified" dates on each version of the font, and sure enough they were different. Once my coworker and I had the same version of the font, the problem went away.
Thanks to everyone who responded; it's quite common in my office for two or more of us to work on a file before it is done, so we'll have to work on reconciling all of our font versions in-house. It's distressing that different font versions are evidently so widespread; our print vendor typically prints directly from the native .cdr file that we send them; we send them the appropriate fonts, but there's still the possibility that they could print something using their version of a font, which could be subtly different from our version, and throw the whole thing off! What a nuisance.
Sounds like something we should do, Mosh. Our method has been to leave the text as text, so that if the printer catches any mistakes that we missed (happens more than I would like to admit), they can correct them for us. We might have to start sending them a "curves" copy to print from, and a text copy just in case...
Here is what should be able to be done, Embed the fonts.
However, I may be whipping a dead horse here.
When I get work from a local artist that does the art for the local schools cheerleading I ask her to embed the fonts.
But what I get is one shot I open it the first time it will work and the next time I open the file it tries to substitute the font.
Maybe I don't understand the embed feature but I would think embedding a font would put a font internal in the corel file and it would work in theory for ever.
How do you embed the fonts?
In the save dialog box, click on the "Options >>" button at the bottom and select "Embed Fonts".
Gérard
When you "save as" in he lower left corner there is "Options" if it is open the is an option you can select "Embed Fonts using TrueDoc (TM)"
This give you the opportunity to have another person work on the file without giving them the font, however, like I said I've recently had some grief with it.
If this were to work correctly there would be no need to convert text to curve until it is finished and then it might be a moot point.
Hope this helps.
Buff