# 5019- "No Fontlist CorelDRAW..." Error Message Under certain conditions, the following error messages related to fonts may be generated: The Windows GUI may occasionally display fonts other than the System fonts, and may have a distorted appearance on the desktop. This error message may be generated when attempting to launch CorelDRAW 5: "No Fontlist CorelDRAW! Not Properly Installed." Random "Condition 5000" series error messages may be generated in CorelDRAW 5 The error message "The font file may be corrupt or damaged" when attempting to install a font from the CorelDRAW 5 CD-ROM may be generated. If you experience any of the above errors, carefully perform the following steps: Windows 3.X Ensure that you have True Type fonts enabled. To enable this, 1. Double-click the Main group in Program Manager. 2. Double-click the Control Panel icon, and double-click the Font Icon. 3. Click True Type, and ensure that True Type is enabled. If True Type is enabled perform the following steps: 1. Click each of the following fonts and press DELETE, Avant Garde Book BT, Avant Garde Book Oblique BT, Avant Garde Medium BT, Avant Garde Medium Oblique BT and CommonBullets. 2. Insert CD-ROM #1, and click Add. 3. Click the CD-ROM drive letter, and double-click the FONTS directory. 4. Double-click the TTF directory, and double click the A directory. 5. Click the four Avant Garde fonts from the list of fonts, and click Add. 6. Click Add again, and repeat steps 3 and 4 substituting A for the C directory. 7. Click CommonBullets from the list of fonts, and click Add. 8. Shut down and restart the computer. 9. Attempt to launch CorelDRAW again. Windows 95 1. Click Start, Settings, Control Panel. 2. Double-click the Fonts icon. 3. Click each of the following fonts and press DELETE, Avant Garde Book BT, Avant Garde Book Oblique BT, Avant Garde Medium BT, Avant Garde Medium Oblique BT and CommonBullets. 4. Insert CD-ROM #1, and click File, Install New Font. 5. Double-click the TTF directory, and double click the A directory. 6. Click the four Avant Garde fonts from the list of fonts, and click OK. 7. Click File, Install New Font again, and repeat steps 3 and 4 substituting A for the C directory. 8. Click CommonBullets from the list of fonts, and click OK. 9. Shut down and restart the computer. 10. Attempt to launch CorelDRAW again. If none of the above resolve this issue, you may have too many fonts installed. The maximum recommended fonts to be installed in Windows 3.X is 300. The maximum recommended fonts for Windows 95 is 500. The following is an excerpt from Microsoft's Windows 95 Knowledge Base which identifies problems that users may encounter when installing a large number of fonts. This does not apply to Windows 3.X! "All font files are registered under a single key in the registry, and a registry key cannot exceed 64K. If font names average 20 characters in length and font filenames average 10 characters in length, the maximum number of True Type fonts you can install falls between 1000 and 1500. If a True Type font file is located in a folder other than the Fonts or the System folder, the full path to the font is included in the registry, using up more space in the key and reducing the number of fonts you can install. The installation of CorelDRAW 5 enters the full path of the font file into the registry. A reduction in the number of font names which may be stored in the registry corresponds directly to the amount of path information also stored there. Therefore, it is strongly recommended that the number of Corel fonts installed not exceed 500." Advisory: Have the CorelDRAW 5 and the Windows 95 CD-ROMs available before proceeding. It may be necessary to reinstall Windows and perform a Custom install of CorelDRAW 5. The following is an excerpt from Microsoft's TechNet CD. It specifies methods of recovery for a corrupted registry. These steps should be administered with caution: Data Recovery In The Registry In Windows 95, data is only written to the Registry when a flush occurs - that is, when something happens after changed data has aged more than a few seconds, or when an application intentionally flushes the data to the hard disk. Each time Windows 95 successfully starts, the operating system backs up the Registry by copying the current SYSTEM.DAT and USER.DAT files to SYSTEM.DA0 and USER.DA0, respectively. If Windows 95 fails to start, the backed-up Registry from the last successful startup can be copied over the current Registry. This method recovers the last successful settings after a system failure. By default, these files are stored in the Windows '95 directory. The USER.DAT and USER.DA0 can be stored in other locations. If these procedures are performed and the problem persists, try the following recovery procedures. These steps have been found to be successful with Corel customers, however, they should be executed with caution. Please contact a Microsoft representative for more detailed information about the following steps - if the "No Fontlist..." Error Message occurs during the launch of Windows 95: 1. Reboot the computer in Safe Mode. To do this, click Start, Shutdown, Restart the Computer. When the words "Starting Windows 95" appear, press F8 immediately. From the menu, choose Safe Mode. Warning: The following steps involves removing system data. If you do not have the original source disks for this data, do not proceed. 2. Click Start, Settings, Control Panel. Double-click the Fonts icon. Select all the fonts in the folder, and press DELETE. 3. Reboot the computer, and insert the Windows 95 CD-ROM 4. Click Start, Run, and type X:\SETUP /F . Where X:\ is the drive letter assigned to the CD- ROM. 5. When the option appears, click "Restore Windows files that are changed or corrupted". If this dialog box does not appear, proceed with the full installation. This will replace and register the Windows fonts. 6. Perform a Custom install of CorelDRAW 5 and disable everything except the True Type Fonts Group, and all the Import/Export filters. It is not necessary to customize the True Type Fonts installed, only the defaults will be installed. 7. Reinstall the fonts as necessary, keeping in mind that an overabundance of Fonts will degrade system performance.