Hello. I just recently upgraded from Corel Graphics Suite 12 to X3, and have been having problems printing some fonts. In fact I only have a handful of fonts that my printer will reckognize. I never had this problem, with 12, and still have most of the same fonts.
I can work around this by converting to outlines or clicking "rasterize entire page" in my print settings, but I don't like saving docs with outlined text, and sometimes rasterizing produces undesirable effects.
My print driver is up to date, as are my updates for X3.
Can anyone help me with this issue?

X3 introduced new font types. (open type) Possible your print driver needs to be upgraded/updated?

Converting your fonts to curves before printing is not a bad thing. Just do not save the convert file. 

Thank you, for the response, Fluid.

My print driver is up to date. The fonts that I've been having trouble with are all both old and new fonts. There doesn't seem to be any predictability to it. Some that I remember: Miriandra, Compacta PEEBla (not the rest of the Compacta family), Times New Roman (which is just plain wierd)
As far as converting to curves goes, it's not a huge deal, and I have been saving without the conversion. However, I work for a silkscreening shop, and (aside from it just being a hassel) I'm just afraid that I'll forget about it on a job and not catch it before it goes to print.

Are these TT, OT, or T1 fonts? What kind of printer are you using?
Val P.

the grainy throat wrote:
> Thank you, for the response, Fluid.
>
> My print driver is up to date. The fonts that I've been having trouble
> with are all both old and new fonts. There doesn't seem to be any
> predictability to it. Some that I remember: Miriandra, Compacta PEEBla
> (not the rest of the Compacta family), Times New Roman (which is just
> plain wierd)
> As far as converting to curves goes, it's not a huge deal, and I have
> been saving without the conversion. However, I work for a silkscreening
> shop, and (aside from it just being a hassel) I'm just afraid that I'll
> forget about it on a job and not catch it before it goes to print.
>
>
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Hi Val,
I'm glad you mentioned that. I looked in my fonts folder, and even though some have the OT icon, all of them are listed as TT when I look at their properties.
Times had OT icon, Compacta had OT icon, and Maiaranda had TT icon. There are many others, but I don't recall which weren't printing.
The printers is a Sharp AR-M277.

 I own a screen printing shop as well. I always save a copy converted to curves just in case along with the master file for each design. I add CRV to the end of the file name for easy locating. Not exactly sure what could be going wrong. When you upgraded to X3 did you remove V12 or are both version still installed? Shouldn't matter either way yet good to know.

Do you have duplicate fonts installed? If so remove the duplicates. Make sure your build is the latest with all service packs. Build should read .739

Also double check the printer driver and check the advanced options and True Type font settings. Possible your settings are set to Default which is substituting the fonts for equivalent printer fonts. This setting is usually faster yet will loose some special characters not supported by the printers font. Might be the issue.

I still have 12 installed, but like you said, that shouldn't matter. I don't have any duplicates (I checked anyway, but XP doesn't allow that to happen). Strangely enough, I can't find any settings that effect fonts (I've never seen that). I don't think that's the problem, though, as it isn't printing different fonts. It just isn't printing them at all. I tried reinstalling all my fonts. Haven't printed anything yet, we'll see. I'll post something, either way.

Thanks for the help... I was kind of hoping I just did something stupid, but I guess not.

I found the solution. I reinstalled all of my fonts (removed them from the fonts folder then put them back). That seems to have fixed the problem. Thanks for your help Fluid.

This is a disturbing thread. You mean to tell me if Corel releases X4 and I upgrade to it I'm going to have to reinstall all my fonts? That's crazy. There's no way I'm going to go through this. How could I possibly remember which fonts I need to uninstall and then reinstall? This is clearly not right. PS fonts I can understand causing problems...but OT and TT fonts?! No way. Nobody should have to uninstall and then reinstall fonts simply because one decided to get a CorelDRAW upgrade. So this is a worrisome issue to think over. I"m wondering if it's the font preview feature that's causing problems. Sometimes I've had issues with Illustrator CS not correctly displaying the font previews and I had to delete the prefs file and relaunch Illy to fix it.

It's not all that bad. You don't have to know which fonts to reinstall. Just do it with all of them. It only takes about five minutes.
It's a pain, I'll agree, but nothing to be that upset about.

 Wait a minute...are you using a Mac or a PC?

pc

This is just my theory...I think the problem could be from using a Font Manager. If you have something like Extensis Suitcase or some other then I can see a scenario where fonts aren't correctly loaded into memory thereby causing some confusion. This would account for the font issue. However you didn't say whether you tried the F8 reset option to fix the font issue. I would have been interested to hear whether such a move might have spared you the trouble of re-installing all your fonts.

 I also believe this could be an issue if you have too many fonts on the PC. For example...I only have 986 fonts available for use...and that's the standard number of fonts on a Windows system. I do believe Microsoft has to do a far better job of handling fonts...and there's no indication if they're ever going to head off this issue...but I think they'll address this with Windows "7" as the new code name is called. Supposedly this version will have a new file system (which is long overdue in my opinion) that should handle having many, many fonts which the current version of Windows XP/Vista simply cannot handle. Window's current font management system is pathetic and it's one reason why I feel tempted to move over to the Mac. At least I've heard the Mac has better font handling capabilities...which would solve part of the problem.