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There's all sorts of ways to visually simulate the look of open faced neon channel letters in CorelDRAW. I design the ones we build to exact specification so the letter backs & faces can be routed and the tube paths can be used for neon tube patterns. Then I concern myself later about how to...

Heck, even if you have the latest version of CorelDRAW you're still going to run into issues importing artwork generated by Adobe Illustrator. FWIW, problems occur going the other way as well. Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW do not get along together very well at all.

I don't know if anything will come of it, but the developers for Adobe Illustrator are aware of the art board size complaints (along with other long-standing complaints). I started out using CASmate when it was still a MS-DOS program. It did some things well, but not others. I had to hop from...

I've been using both Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW since the early 1990's. I used Macromedia Freehand for a few years as an alternative to Illustrator (particularly in the mid to late 1990's period when Adobe offered v5, v5.5 and v6 upgrades of Illustrator only for Mac). In the early days it...

My system is starting to age a little, but it is still pretty stout: Core i7 CPU, 24GB of RAM, 1.5 GB GeForce GTX card. Corel's font playground feature is just a lag-tastic pig.

Corel Font Manager X8 is definitely a culprit for the terrible performance problems in CorelDRAW X8. I have a pretty large collection of fonts. Referencing that font collection folder in Corel's font manager would just bog down the program. It would take a long time for X8 to launch. And then it...

The problem I have been encountering with Windows' font manager is not unique. It's a very common problem, one I've dealt with personally on multiple Windows machines. If you do a web search using "Windows can't uninstall fonts" you'll find numerous articles and forum discussions about this very...

It doesn't matter whether the fonts are uninstalled one at a time or as a group. Windows' font manager will occasionally decide the font is in use and refuse to delete it. One trick that can help is un-checking the "details pane" under "layout" in the font manager. But that doesn't always work...

I've encountered the same font installation problem with Windows 7. The act of uninstalling fonts hasn't been reliably simple since the days of Windows XP.

I ended up uninstalling then re-installing CorelDRAW X8, but without installing the Font Manager X8 application. Running X8 without the Font Manager makes a pretty big difference. CorelDRAW X8 launches much faster and files generated using X8 open much faster. The downside: you're stuck using...

There's no consistent sense of logic in how this latest font bug is working. I have both X6 and X8 installed on my desktop PC. I still have X6 installed for certain occasions, like needing to open early 1990's .CDR files since such file support was removed in X7 and X8. Plus X6 loads and runs a...

In my humble opinion CorelDRAW 2017 is a rip-off "upgrade." CorelDRAW X8 was released just last year. Version 2017 doesn't have enough new features or improvements to make it worth a full $200 upgrade. If Corel wants to go to a yearly upgrade cycle they're going to have to cut the price in half...

Adding another wrinkle to this enormous font headache, a bunch of the Adobe Typekit fonts are not showing up in the CorelDRAW X8 font menu. Either just one weight of a type family shows or just the basic four weights (regular, italic, bold, bold-italic). I have several type families synced from...

The strange thing is this font fiasco has happened a couple weeks after MS pushed this mega-update to both my work desktop PC and notebook at home. My feeling is this font handling problem is a combination of buggy Corel software and half-baked garbage code pushed from MS. As of this morning the...

Font headaches with CorelDRAW X8 continue. Certain installed fonts have been disabling themselves from use in the application. Rather than disappearing completely from the font menu the font names are there, but styled in default Arial and selecting the font just makes it look like Arial...

Some trouble shooting stuff: Make sure you have the latest updates of VersaWorks installed. Going the PDF route is worth a try. Normally anything I design in CorelDRAW and send to VersaWorks is usually going through Adobe Illustrator first to get the colors just right.

Well, my CorelDRAW X8 installation started crashing upon launch yet again this morning, rendering the previous registry fix worthless. Thankfully Corel posted a new "hot fix" patch (cdgs-hf1.exe) for both X8 and CDR 2017 on their website. Hopefully this solution will be more permanent.

Maybe it's just the computers I use, but I wish CorelDRAW X8 wasn't so laggy when launching, opening files and scrolling through the font menu. Sometimes I have to drag files into X8 from the Windows Explorer window because the program occasionally locks up when opening files in the file>open...

Reinstalling CorelDRAW X8 will not solve that problem. If you visit the discussion thread at the CorelDRAW community forum you'll see how others have tried uninstalling and reinstalling to no avail. Running the registry hack the folks from Corel provided will solve the problem.

CorelDRAW has had strange font substitution bugs for some time. I'll open an existing CorelDRAW document and the application will claim all the fonts used in the document are missing even though they're installed on the computer. Under the suggested match table the dialog box will show the same...