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Font Navigator says it finds approx 5500 fonts on the computer. However, when browsing though all or almost all seems to be broken/not working. Problem is old, started years ago when a computergeek tried to be helpfull and loaded 1000s of "fonts", however I have up til now been able to navigate. So, I suppose only solution is to delete all the unistalled fonts 5500 from navigator and start with a clean plate loading fonts from Corel Disk. I dont know how to delete this fonts though. Could it be so easy as to hide the folders containing them and ask Navigator to do a new search ? . Any ideas and tips will be helpful.
-------------------- Stein Saether GullSkilt AS Trondheim Posts: 1183 | From: Trondheim Norway | Registered: Nov 1998
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Funny how asking a q makes me think, It did work, just telling Navigator to look only in Corel font file. . At least, TT fonts work, not type 1, but I am fine with that !
-------------------- Stein Saether GullSkilt AS Trondheim Posts: 1183 | From: Trondheim Norway | Registered: Nov 1998
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what version window and corel are you working with??? that might be why you cant see any TYPE 1 fonts. also its best to keep less then a 1000 fonts......on the puter
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-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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Window 7, 64 bits, Corel X4. I also have Corel X7, 64 bits on the same puter. Will try that. And, the corel font file conrains approx 2000 font, but only approx 100 installed. It used to be to install max 500, is it now possible to install up to 1000 ?
-------------------- Stein Saether GullSkilt AS Trondheim Posts: 1183 | From: Trondheim Norway | Registered: Nov 1998
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yea.......i think X7 will alow you to see TYPE 1 FONTS...
-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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Stein, you can save yourself a lot of confusion with font "overload", if you spend a few hours in your font library and delete all those that are duplications......
For instance, Souvenir, has bold, elongated, condensed, italicized, regular, etc. You can delete 3 or 4 of these, since the distortion capabilities of your software pretty much allows you to 'manufacture' all of them from one, by stretching, slanting or whatever.
There are many other fonts, that the same process can eliminate a lot of clutter in your computer.
Also, you can make a list of fonts that are very similar in appearance to each other. For instance, Microgramma and Eurostyle are very similar in appearance. Unless you or your customer are totally anal about having "that" font and that font only, they'll probably be just as happy with either.
I've gotten my font library down to a couple of hundred.....by doing the above; and by just going through and deleting many, that I haven't used for years and years. Simpler is better.
As an aside, if I do have a customer that has a request for some oddball font, I try to find it on one of the many font sites....download it, use it, and delete it again. I'll probably never use it again. I seldom ever buy a font. There are just too many free ones out there. And keep in mind, a lot of "new" fonts are just old ones, that some genius has added a serif to, or made a swirl or added a curly-cue to the Y or whatever. With a little editing on your own, you can duplicate a "look".
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wow......i remember the days of d/l a font on a 9600 baud modem to a 386 computer with a 30 meg HARD DRIVE.........in those day we kept most of the fonts on 5 1/4" floppies)))))
-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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How about when the Gerber Signmaker came out? I think it would take 7 or 8 fonts....each one was on a separate circuit board, that you had to buy separately! Depending on the complexity of the font, or what kind of editing capabilities it had, we had to pay about $125 to over $200 EACH for them.
We bought a direct competitor, called the ARTY. It was almost identical, but would take 21 fonts; they were interchangeable with the Gerber's. I think we eventually had 12 or 13, and thought we were in heaven!
Now.......it's almost unlimited. But there's only so many you'll ever use. Some of them are stupid, unreadable, and just nasty!
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Mostly I do with 2; Futura and Times. Now I have a picky customer, wants sign that are exactly copies of the letters on a 100 year old photo, but with new words. They where all handdrawn, Dave Grundy helped me with one of them. What I was seeking was a font close to the one on the photo, just to make editing easier, at least for me I think. Thanks to this site, I now not only knew how to edit vectors, but also how to use Font Navigator and how to handle the font catalogue
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1992, i was offered a goober 4B.was told i could buy more fonts for it IF i also bought the this other CARD......for it and each additional font was $100 a pop. welllllllll.......i had just gotten my 1st computer386DX40(screamer for then. i figured out how to print patterns to a 9 pin wide carriage printer. the wife worked in an office that ran tons of the 2 tone green 14" wide pin feed paper, which she brought home and i printed patterns on the clean back white side of the continuous sheets. i had figured out how to use corel draw 3.0 for this and had access to all and any font on the computer(most were free). so it wasnt hard for me to make this work to a ROALAND PNC-1000 plotter i bought for 1/2 the price of the GOOBER. i got the roland, coupl rolls of vinyl/tranfer tape and a sign program called LETTER ART. old dos based sign program. i paid for a couple of up grades to it then dropped it completely when corel got a 150 foot X 150 foot work space(corel 7).i cut from COREL 3.0 to the ROLAND(still do, but now its X3 & a CM-300 ROLAND).......and had all the fonts on the computer to use)))))))))
-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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