Just curious… When installing CC on Windows, does it look at the fonts directory or is there a font bundle within the I stall?
Asking as I noticed I have CC 778 I stalled on my main desktop, a surface tablet and a laptop that I hook to the machine. I’ll design and save files from the desktop but noticed when loading up with the laptop to start milling the fonts are all wrong or default. When looking at the file on the surface tablet… All fonts are good. All 3 computers are all the same version of windows and all at the same patch level. The CC installation is the same across all 3 too. No custom fonts have been added so it seems odd that one machine won’t load a few specific fonts and they don’t show in the list when trying to select them in CC… But they are in the windows directory.
I did try to uninstall CC and reinstall using the same installer I used on the other machines… No difference.
Standard loaded fonts are different on different versions of Windows and different computers. When installing a new font, right click and select “Install for All Users” or it will not be available for CC or other software. I guess if you have fonts already installed that are not showing up you could try to find the font on line and reinstall it. There’s a nice free program called Nexus Font you can install and it will show a list of all installed fonts on your computer.
There are three sources for fonts in Carbide Create:
bundled with the program (apparently these were licensed — I think there’s a promotional font which includes some naming) — I don’t know if this has changed with various versions or no
currently installed on the operating system the application is running on EDIT: which the OS makes available to the app — as noted, it may be necessary to “Install for all users”
installed into the “fonts” folder in the Carbide Create folder accessed under the “About | Open Data Directory” folder
The best solution is to always duplicate text to a “Text” layer and to only assign toolpaths to copies of the text which has been put through the “Convert to Curves” button:
Fonts have been a problem for a long time in Windows. Add the complication of CC and it can become a headache. CC uses the installed Windows fonts but there are a few things that dont work right. Fonts that conform to standards seem to work. However there are fonts that are free but do not necessarily conform to font standards and do not work right in CC. Another complication is some people create on one computer but then move to another computer. That is also problematic for fonts. Sometimes it is versions of a font or the second computer does not have the same font installed as used on the first computer.
So in general fonts are somewhat of a headache. To simplify things make sure you install any font you want to use on both computers and they are both the same version.
Also @baricl advice about “Install for all users” is good. That used to be a hot topic here on the forum but I have not seen too much about permissions of CC and/or fonts lately but it would not hurt to “Install for all users”.
Thanks for the insight. Looks like it’s just another one of those font struggles. I even went back and reinstalled the font on the affected machine and still no dice.
