Fonts: Exporting Illustrator to Corel

[gorgeo]

I have a problem opening a Illustrator 9 file (saved as 8) with CorelDraw 9. Vector art comes across ok, but text does not.

Fonts are installed in their own separate fonts folder in the Windows (XP) directory, and both programs access the fonts from the same place (ie I don't have duplicate fonts), but each program treats the fonts differently, and calls them by slightly different names. So when I open the .AI in Corel, it tells me the fonts are missing, and wants to sustitute them by PANTONE defaults.

Worse, some of the fonts that don't show up for substitution, are 'invisable'. I can still select the text, and see the nodes, but can't see the text! I can change the font (ie to Arial), and if I change the Artistic text to Paragraph text, they show up too - this is not an easy process with lots of lumps of invisable text!

If I then copy the text Paragraph text, then try and paste it as Artistic text then it becomes invisable again. If I convert the Artistic Text to Paragraph text, then save and close CD9, then REOPEN the file, then I CAN convert the Paragraph Text back to Artistic Text with no problems. Ha!

Can you follow all this crap? I can't get my head even part way round this problem. I think the problem is with Corel, but am not sure.

Same thing happens when printing a Word Doc to PDF, and then importing it into Corel.

I have problems importing any document with text into corel, but I only have the 'disappearing font act' with the three Type 1 fonts (Helvetica Family) that I am trying to use.

PS - I need this fonts, as 'they might' be forming part of my companys 'new identity'....

Any help would be gratefully received.

 

[gorgeo]

I have also done a search for similar font problems:
- Corel Draw 9 not supported on XP, but it was working absolutely fine before I starting with these new (just 3) Type 1 fonts, and trying to import Illustrator files.
- I read also that fonts with the same name can cause this problem, but I only have one copy of the font, in either TTF or Type1.
- I also use Font Navigator.

 

[javabearSTL]

The programs will not call the fonts different names as it's not the applications that are giving them their names. The only way you'd get different font names would be if you're using different fonts. (i.e., TT vs T1, Mac vs PC)

Pantone is a color system and has nothing to do with fonts whatsoever.

 

[gorgeo]

I seem to have gotten around the problem by installing the demo version of Corel 11. Thanks.

 

[CorelDrawQueen]

The Font matching system gorgeo meant to say was Panose (not pantone). That is the font exception file that will remember them ...

Anyway Corel Draw only likes TTF (true type) fonts. Why must you use the FONT? Once you've created it just convert to curves (or outlines in Illustrator) so that you can use it across Applications in EPS format.

 

[gorgeo]

"The Font matching system gorgeo meant to say was Panose (not pantone). That is the font exception file that will remember them ..." Yes - that's what I meant!

Draw 11 seems to handle postcript T1 fonts ok - they are fine now, and transfering files between illustrator and Draw is seemless. The font naming thing seems to be fixed now too, but it was such a confusing process.