Corel fonts question

[threeputt]

Just updated our engraving room's computers from X3 to X5. Now I find that earlier files, when opened, give a message stating that the required fonts are not available.

I'm pretty sure when we loaded X5 that we loaded all the fonts, although I didn't do this task myself.

Does anyone know how to correct for this problem?

 

[signmeup]

Look to see if the fonts are loaded?

 

[J Hill Designs]

if you use the new bitstream font navigator you can tell it where all your fonts are (network wide) and it will ask to load them if they are not already loaded into that particular system

 

[Fred Weiss]

First thing to check is whether or not you have too many fonts installed for all of them to be available. Go to Windows Explorer and navigate to the Windows/Fonts folder and get a count. Depending on the resources of your system, you will start having problems somewhere between 500 and 1,000 fonts installed.

The other possibility is that a slightly different version of the same Corel font has over written the original and isn't being seen as the same font in a saved job.

 

[drive]

Rescan the font folders using the Bitstream in the x5 folder as jhill said.

 

[bob]

Just updated our engraving room's computers from X3 to X5. Now I find that earlier files, when opened, give a message stating that the required fonts are not available.

I'm pretty sure when we loaded X5 that we loaded all the fonts, although I didn't do this task myself.

Does anyone know how to correct for this problem?

I've found that more often than not a font file that software has trouble finding is there but the type face has a slightly different name. For example one time Corel couldn't find 'Egyptian505 Med' when it was right there as 'Egyptian505 MD BT'. Your mileage may vary but if you know you have a font file installed you might want to look around for it under a slightly different name. Not the name of font file but the name of the face in the file. Two different things.

 

[J Hill Designs]

yeah or alot of times it says "Arial Bold - normal" is missing, just point it to "arial bold" and add it to the list of exceptions

 

[J Hill Designs]

rofl pat

i use suitcase on occasion to see a complete list of my fonts using a particular word...once accidentally double clicked the list and it started installing all 14000 fonts...ugh

 

[drive]

Or.........(in bitstream) "do you also want to remove fonts from the disk?"

poof! magic!

 

[threeputt]

First thing to check is whether or not you have too many fonts installed for all of them to be available. Go to Windows Explorer and navigate to the Windows/Fonts folder and get a count. Depending on the resources of your system, you will start having problems somewhere between 500 and 1,000 fonts installed.

The other possibility is that a slightly different version of the same Corel font has over written the original and isn't being seen as the same font in a saved job.

Only 207 fonts there.

 

[Travis Stanley]

Check in Shared Documents, thats where all the fonts for Corel are, along with clipart, backgrounds, textures ect...

 

[threeputt]

Turns out that some of the fonts for which I was searching are NOT on the X5 disk at all. Had to re-insert the old Corel Fonts disk I've had for years to get particular fonts.

Thanks to all who've offered their comments.