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kajoiner123
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July 13, 2010
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Type 1 fonts have become invalid/damage

  • July 13, 2010
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Hello,

We purchased the Agena type 1 font set several years ago and I have been using it for artwork.  I also use Swiss 721 type 1 fonts that came with my copy of Corel Draw 10.  Recently I began having font swapping issues in Corel Draw even though the fonts are loaded (Win XP Pro).  I tried reloading the fonts and received an invalid or damaged font message.  These same fonts work fine on other machines.  Does anyone have an idea on what could have caused this problem?  I also tried reloading the Swiss 721 fonts from my Corel Draw CD with the same message.  It seems the problem is with my computer, but I'm not sure what could be causing this.  I'm not an expert in this so hopefully I have overlooked something.

P.S. the fonts are working on the other computer with Corel Draw

Thanks,

Kyle

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    Dov Isaacs
    Dov Isaacs
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    July 14, 2010

    Since neither Agena Type 1 fonts, Swiss 721 Type 1 fonts, nor CorelDRAW are Adobe products, it would probably be prudent to contact either the font foundries in question or Corel Technical Support to answer your question.

              - Dov

    - Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
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    kajoiner123Author
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    July 14, 2010

    Dov,

    I will check with our purchasing department but I'm thinking we purchased the Agenda font set from Adobe. It has been several years so I will need to check. The Swiss 721 fonts were definitely from Corel since I pulled them off of the CD.

    The strange thing is that all of the fonts started having problems and I cannot reinstall them on my machine, but they will install just fine on another. I am a little worried that the issue is in my computer but don't know what could cause that issue.

    Sincerely,

    Kyle Joiner,

    Senior Mechanical Engineer

    kjoiner@thinkipa.com

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    kajoiner123Author
    Participant
    July 14, 2010

    Kyle,

    Let us know what you find out. As I recall, the problem didn't affect all nVidia drivers, just some of them for a particular class of video card. The workaround was either yet another driver update or a registry entry. (Thinking about it even more, it may have been that the defective drivers were distributed by Dell or HP for video cards bundled with their systems.)

              - Dov


    Dov,

    I checked with our purchasing department and you are correct - we bought the fonts from another source. The video card I use is the nVidia Quadro FX1700. I work mostly in CAD so it is pretty good for that application. I also use Shot rendering software on occasion and upgraded my driver based on recommendations by them.

    My computer is a Dell T3400 workstation but I upgraded the driver from the nVidia site and not through the Dell site. I'm checking with members of my CAD forum to see if they have run across similar problems since most of them use a similar card. It's amazing how video cards and drivers can cause so many issues not related to them, but I've seen this a couple of times before so you have brought up a very interesting topic and possible source of all of the font problems.

    I'll see if I can locate my older driver and roll back to it and find out if the problems go away. I will keep you updated on what I find.

    Sincerely,

    Kyle Joiner,

    Senior Mechanical Engineer

    kjoiner@thinkipa.com

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