Hello everyone,
I need your help in diagnosing a font issue between different versions of windows and if it's linked to the Corel program for each OS. The OS in question are Windows 7, 8.1 and 10 and its various fonts (Arial, Times New Roman, Bookman Old Style). Our issue is the original file which was created on a Win 7 machine is all fine and dandy. I had opened the file on my machine which has Win 8.1 and the spacing is off on only a couple of lines of the text the rest of the document is fine. Ironically there are even more differences on seperate lines of text between the 8.1 machine and the win 10 machine. All have the same version of Corel and the only difference I have been able to find is the versions of the native font files in the WIndows Fonts folder.
So I'm not sure if just in different versions in the program for each OS is the culprit of if it's versions of the fonts or something else I haven't thought of. It just makes it difficult ensuring that all the documents print with the proper font spacing. Any leads on finding a solution to this issue would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
This sort of problem is usually due to the different versions of the font - although they're called the same there are often minor differences.
maybe see which machine has the newest version and try copying that to the other machines.
I have tired this across all of the affected machines. I would isolate one font and have only that font ( at first it was the Win 7 version on all of them. The result was still the same no matter which version of the font was used. At least that was the case on my machine. Anything else that you can think of. I spoke a tech at Microsoft and after much deliberation we really didn't come up with a solution that works. The next thing I was thinking was maybe calling Corel?
I am also facing issues while load Instagram fonts on my windows with coreldraw.
Also having issues with Times New Roman, Arial, and a couple of other fonts regularly messing up since X6 at least, even worse with Windows 10. On our machines they tend to lose the bold and regular versions and only show up as italics. The only solution I've found is to download the full family of each and then remove the installed version and replace with new backup. Sometimes restarting the computer is required as well, but the problem frequently recurs in a day or two. Very annoying, to the point where I've had to use Tex Gyre, etc. equivalents. Wish Corel could work with M$ to fix this.
I have some commercially purchased type families that have not worked correctly in the past couple versions of CorelDRAW. The most common problem is some font files are hidden from view in the font menu. Sometimes the font can be accessed by toggling the Italic button. In some other cases the fonts are just completely hidden from the application. I have to use a different graphics program to do something with that weight of a typeface.One example where a bunch of fonts are 100% hidden: I have a 60 font super-family called Vito (from Dots & Stripes Type). The type family has five widths (from compressed to wide) and six weights for each font width (from extra light to black), plus matching italics. None of the six bold upright fonts will show up in CorelDRAW unless I uninstall the matching italic versions. Otherwise only the italic versions of the bold weights are available in the menu. The Italic button is greyed out on the tool bar. This bug has been present since CDR 2020.Another annoying issue: I think something is wrong with the OTF Variable Font rendering system in CorelDRAW. I recently bought a newly released type super family called Heading Now from Zetafonts. It has 160 standard OTF files (80 upright and 80 italic weights). Plus it has two OTF Variable fonts. The standard OTF files work just fine. The OTF VAR fonts do not. Various letters have all sorts of wiggly or crooked looking issues. Some of this I believe is an authoring problem with the typeface itself. But crooked looking letters, such as a capital "E" appear much more normal in Adobe Illustrator. The two different applications give different results when converting the letters to outlines, with Illustrator's result looking more correct.