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I want to use a true type font that is installed on my hard drive in CorelDraw. How do I add the font to the list in Corel so that when I enter text in Corel I can choose this font?
-------------------- Jean Shimp Shimp Sign & Design Co. Jacksonville Beach, Fl Posts: 1290 | From: Jacksonville Beach, Fl. USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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What Bob says, except you don't have to restart the computer. You have to exit any text function and go back in so that it updates, or in the worst case, restart Corel Draw.
I'm guessing however that the font is installed in the fonts folder and you can't find it in Corel. If that is the case, you need to find out what name your computer is using to display the font. Some vendors name their fonts things like LHFFontname. You are looking for Fontname, but it is under L for LHFFontname. Vic G
-------------------- Victor Georgiou Danville, CA , USA Posts: 1746 | From: Danville, CA , USA | Registered: Dec 1998
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This is a simple issue that gets complicated quickly.
First of all it's best to have as few fonts as possible installed at any given time.
Windoze loads the font list at boot up and as best as I understand it keeps the font list in ram. basically burning valuable resources.
(if anyone can explain this better please do.)
Fonts in the path, c:\windows\fonts\ are the ones that get loaded.
Font utilities are good at eliminating this problem, in fact, If I'm not mistaken the 'bitstream font navigator' that comes with several versions of 'corel draw' will actually allow you to "temporarily" install a font, when next you reboot the font is removed until you wish to reinstall it, thus preventing font build up over a period of time.
There is (or at least was, maybe fixed now ?) a point at wich windows could handle no more and would effectively "freak out" if you had installed to many. If I remember correctly the problem was related directly to the actual font list having a 64k cap.
You know that you have reached this cap when you see your minimize and close buttons turn into miscellaneous char's from other typestyles.
One other issue, in corel draw in the 'tools' drop down dialog, under /options/ and then /text/ then /fonts/. (dependent on what version, this could be slightly different)you can place check marks by the types of fonts that you wish to display. If 'truetype fonts doesn't have a check by it they will not be displayed in your list etc., and so on for the other types.
Make sure your font file is not corrupt or incomplete, this happens often when downloading zipped files from the net and also from floppies.
Hope this helps, Your best bet is a font utility.
You will be able to browse to anywhere you have a font downloaded from inside the utility and simply choose install or uninstall at will.
Since your using corel draw you probably already have one installed and may not know it.
Good Luck.
Steve
-------------------- Steve Aycock Designs 3489 Oswald St. Johns Island, SC zaor@warpdriveonline.com Posts: 124 | From: Charleston, SC | Registered: Feb 2003
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Jean, I have Corel and hopefully you installed the Bitsteam Font Navigater. Go to Corel, then Productivity Tools, open the Bitsteam program. Click on File, then Find fonts. Bitstream will search your entire drive for fonts. You can specify which drive as well. Once it has searched the drive, look on the left column for the fonts available, the ones installed will have a check mark next to it. If it is there, but not installed, drag it from the left column to the right column. Try to stay under 400 fonts installed on the right column to keep system resourses from freaking out.
-------------------- Rob Thomas 3410 Ketcham Ct Beautiful Springs FL 34134 Posts: 965 | From: Bonita Springs, Florida USA | Registered: Feb 2000
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