CorelDRAW Help | Using the new Font list box

Quick links to procedures on this page:

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To customize the font list

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To resize the Font list area

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To filter fonts

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To search for fonts by using keywords

Using the new Font list box

With the new Font list box in CorelDRAW and Corel PHOTO-PAINT, you can view, filter, and find fonts easily. In addition to the font filters available before, you can filter fonts based on weight, width, supported scripts, and more. Font search has also been enhanced, allowing you to use keywords to search for fonts.

The numbers correspond to the numbers in the following table, which describes the improvements in the Font list box.


Improvement	Description
1. Font list box	The Font list box has search capabilities and lets you access additional controls.
2. Number of fonts	The number of fonts that meet your search criteria is clearly displayed. This number changes when you apply different filters and when fonts are installed or removed.
3. Font technology identifier	A symbol in front of each font name shows if the font is TrueType, OpenType - TrueType, OpenType - PostScript, or Type 1.
4. Zoom slider	Lets you change the size of the font names
5. Preview area	The preview area was moved to the bottom, letting you preview fonts and selected fonts without disrupting your workflow.
6. Show/Hide preview button	Lets you show and hide the preview area
7. Show/Hide filters button	Lets you display and choose filters to refine the font list
6. Font options button	Lets you customize the font list to show the font names grouped by family or as a flat list, and more
9. Vertical grab area	Lets you adjust the width of the Font list area
10. Horizontal grab area	Lets you adjust the height of the Font list area

Viewing fonts

With Update 4, you can customize the font list, from within the Font list box, to make it easier to find fonts. For example, you can display fonts grouped by family or as a flat list. If you have non-Latin fonts installed, you can show their names in Latin or in their native language. In addition, you can show or hide recently used fonts at the top of the font list, and access the Options dialog box to specify other font-related options.

By default, font names use the corresponding fonts, but you can display all font names by using the same font.

You can resize the Font list area by adjusting its height and width or by hiding the preview area.

Filtering fonts

Standard feature: The new Show filters button gives you easy access to the font filters available in earlier versions. You can display only the fonts used in the document or only symbol fonts, and you can filter fonts based on the font technology.

If you have a Premium membership, you can filter fonts based on weight, width, style, supported language(s), OpenType feature, and more. Font filtering is available from many controls including the property bar, Text toolbar, Object Properties docker, Text Properties docker, Font Playground, and Insert Character docker.

Filtering fonts

Searching for fonts

Premium feature

Corel Font Service, included with Update 4, is a new utility that checks what fonts are installed on your computer and generates a font database with keywords. These keywords include font names, font technology, and other metadata included in the fonts, and can be used to search for local fonts from within the Font list box.

When you start typing a font name or another keyword, a relevant list of fonts is displayed. This list is automatically updated as you type. To refine your search, you can type two or more keywords. For example, to find all available Arial fonts that have bold weight, you can type Arial bold in the Font list box.

To customize the font list

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Click the Text tool

, and open the Font list box on the property bar.

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To change the size of the font names, move the Zoom slider.

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Click the Font options button

, and perform a task from the following table.


To	Do the following
Display the font list grouped by family or as a flat list	Click Group by family to enable or disable the command.
Show the names of non-Latin fonts in Latin or in the native language	Click Show Latin names to enable or disable the command. This option is useful when you work with Cyrillic, Arabic, and Asian fonts.
Display font names by using the same font	Click Use font to display the font name to disable the command.
Display or hide recently used fonts	Click Show recently used fonts to enable or disable the command.
Specify the number of recently used fonts to display	Click Font List Options, and on the Fonts page of the Options dialog box, type a value in the Number of recently used fonts displayed box.

To resize the Font list area

1 .

Click the Text tool

, and open the Font list box on the property bar.

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Do any of the following:

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To hide the preview area, click the Hide preview button

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To adjust the width of the Font list box, point to the vertical grab area (right edge) and drag when the double-sided arrow appears.

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To adjust the height, point to the horizontal grab area (above the Zoom slider), and drag when the double-sided arrow appears.

To filter fonts

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Open the Font list box on the property bar, and click the Show filters button

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Enable any of the filter check boxes.


You can also
Clear all filters	Click Clear filters.
Close the filter list	Click the Hide filters button .

You can filter only fonts that are installed on your computer.

The following table lists all font filters and font filter groups available with Premium membership. If you have a Standard membership, only the Document fonts, Font Technology, and Symbol filters are displayed.


Font filter or font filter group	Description
Document Fonts	Lets you display only the fonts used in the document
Font Technology	Lets filter fonts based on the font technology such as OpenType - TrueType, OpenType - PostScript, TrueType, and Type 1
Weight	Lets you display fonts based on their weight such as Light, Normal, or Bold
Width	Lets you display fonts based on their width such as Condensed, Normal, and Expanded
Style	Lets you display fonts based on their style such as Decorative, Display , Monospaced , Sans Serif, Script, Serif, and Symbol
Character Range	Lets you filter fonts based on their language or script. Filters in this group include Arabic, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Latin, and Turkish .
OpenType	Lets you display fonts that have specific OpenType features such as Capital Spacing, Case-Sensitive forms, and more

To search for fonts by using keywords

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Open the Font list box.

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Double-click in the Font list box, and type a keyword such as a font name or font technology.

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To refine your search, press the space bar after typing the first keyword, and type another keyword.

You can also use the Boolean operators AND and OR.

The following table lists the search keywords that you can use organized by categories.


Category	Keywords
Document Fonts	Document Fonts
Font Technology	OpenType - TrueType, OpenType - PostScript, TrueType, Type 1
Weight	Thin, Extra Light, Light, Regular, Medium, Semi Bold, Bold, Extra Bold, Black
Width	Ultra Condensed, Extra Condensed, Condensed, Semi Condensed, Normal, Semi Expanded, Expanded, Extra Expanded, Ultra Expanded
Style	Decorative, Display, Monospaced , Sans Serif , Script, Serif, Symbol
Character Range	Arabic, Armenian, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Coptic , Cyrillic, Devanagari, Dhivehi , Georgian, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hiragana, Japanese, Kannada, Katakana , Korean, Latin, Russian, Syria, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese
Manufacturer	Ale/Paul, Bitstream, Cultivated/Mind, DynaComware, Font Fabric, Fontlab , Fontographer , ITC , Linotype, Mark Simonson , Monotype, Typodermic , RW++
Embedding rights	Editable, Installable, No Embedding, Restricted, Preview& Print
OpenType	All Small Capitals, Alternate Annotation Forms, Alternate Half Widths, Alternate Vertical Half Metrics, Alternate Vertical Metrics, Alternative Fractions, Capital Spacing, Case Sensitive Forms , Centered CJK Punctuation, Character Variants , Contextual Alternates, Contextual Ligatures, Denominators , Discretionary Ligatures , Expert Forms, Fractions, Half Widths, Historical Forms , Historical Ligatures, Hojo Kanji Forms, Horizontal Kana Alternates, JIS2004 Forms,JIS78 Forms, JIS83 Forms, JIS90 Forms , Kerning, Lining Figures, Localized Forms, NLC Kanji , Numerators, Ordinals, Ornaments, Proportional Kana, Proportional Lining, Proportional Oldstyle, Proportional Widths , Quarter Widths, Scientific Inferiors, Simplified Forms, Slashed ZeroSmall Capitals, Small Capitals from Capitals, Standard Ligatures, Stylistic Alternates, Stylistic Sets, Subscript , Superscript, Swash Variants, Tabular, Tabular Oldstyle, Third Widths, Titling, Traditional Forms, Traditional Name Forms, Vertical Alternates and Rotation

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