I discovered one of the reasons X7 crashes when opening an X4 document. It's a frozen lens. Ungroup the frozen lens and it should open. go ahead and try to open the attached file in X7. Now open in X4.
On the right hand side of my Font Navigator where it shows the Font Samples, they are not matching the actual font I have selected. Im trying to install my University Roman and it is clearly not the correct font. It is showing the name Bulmer MT Regular as the font sample...what the heck is going on? Ive tried re loading all my fonts and restarting the computer. Its acting very funny. I had to find the font itself and click on the "install" buttom for me to have access to this....any ideas? Its for the majority of my fonts now. Not just this one. They are all mismatched.
cannot break apart contour from text even if converted to curves
Hi,
I recently upgraded from X4 to X5 and have started encountering the following error on some files when trying to open them. "CorelDRAW encountered an improper argument."
This tends to occur about 'halfway' through the loading progress bar and results in a dead corelDRAW which I have to close before opening any other file, along with the offending file being completely unable to be opened!
These files were originally created in X4, but have been updated and saved in X5.
There is no error message when saving the file initially.
Is this a file corruption? Something to do with X4>X5 upgrade or what? The backup file is generally also stuffed.
Unfortunately the files are some 70mb each and can't be emailed in for testing. The problem is not re-creatable and occurs at random.
Anyone else experiencing this? Any ideas are greatly appreciated.
Cheers.
Hi.
I'm changing direction in my life. I wanted to take a second to tell all friends and fellow Corelians goodbye from the forum. Not that I do not love Corel but it's time to move on. Some of you perhaps will even say good riddance, lol.
Not that I don't want to help more here and there but I'm going in new directions,
leaving macros and Corel behind as a main focus. I get many emails needing vba help that take focus away from my new goals and purpose, sometimes regarding very old posts here. I want to make clear I will no longer be available for questions directly and will no longer respond to emails regarding support and follow-ups for any old posts I may have answered here. I cannot continue take focus off my new projects and direction. Basically the end of a very good
era for me.If
it's a simple question I try to answer but only on the forum here and may still pop in from time to time with a quick hi or simple answer.
I hope you understand and I hope everyone liked all the support and help I provided
in the past but it's time for me to move on. As far as the macros available on my website, it is possible they end with X7 versions, I haven't completely decided yet. All X7 macros available now on the site were requested ones, other are not available and were discontinued with X6.
Thanks and it was my pleasure being here for these years to help support CorelDraw and the community which I love so much
~John
First OS (Woxxom), then Brian, now John.
In Draw X3 when you create a new page by ctrl dragging a page (page tab), the newly created page is activated. Is it possible to change X7 to behave like this too?
In X3 you can setup so if you click to set layer "Background" invisible it will do so for all pages. Is this possible in X7?
I have been attempting to install CorelCAD on my computer. I have a Dell Dimension 9200C with 4mb of RAM and am running Windows 7 SP1 with dual monitors. My Windows Installer version is 5.0.7601.17514.
The program installs almost to the end, to the point where the desktop icon is in place. When the install window reads registering software, it stops and I get the following message: " There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. Contact your support personnel or package vendor." At that point the program rolls back the installation.
I've run Microsoft Fix It for uninstall/install with no success. I've tried to register the software first before installation but I receive an error message that the serial number is incorrect or is a legacy program without support.
I can't find anything on the Corel website or the Microsoft website that addresses my problem.
Any suggestions?
Hi all!
I'm working on Corel-files (X3) either on my home-pc or during lunch-break or journeys also on my business-laptop.
When creating new decal-sets I use a background of CMYK (C:28, M:0, Y:18, K:0).
This colour is necessary to be able to view white objects of the drawing. During print it is deleted automatically by macro.
My problem is now that the same file looks different on both PCs - even it the colour is the same - also the same color-tables, views, etc.
Does anyone have an idea?
Thanks in advance!
Andreas (DE)
We use Coreldraw to prep our artwork before we cut something out on our CNC Router. One of the things we have to check for everytime, is that the router bit is going to fit everywhere around the letter (inside and out) as it cuts it out. Basically we do that currently by drawing a circle the diameter of the bit, and dragging it around to the narrow areas of the letter, and seeing if it fits. we will then change the artwork to reflect that and send the customer a proof. So for instance:
Hello everybody,
I am completely new to this forum and also to Corel Draw.
I have a question that hopefully someone of you will be able to help me with. I have looked at the dutch Coral Draw website and also at the US-one. Both sites seem to dislike questions from visitors/buyers as there was no possibility to ask any. Then I tried to phone the supplied phone number. A UK-number. Phoned them three times. No answers to the phone.
So I searched the Internet and found this forum!
My question:
I would like to buy the Coral Draw Home and Student edition 2014. Some of my friends work with Coral Draw Graphic Suite X5. Unfortunately I do not have the money to afford myself this edition, so I have to take the home/student-one. When I buy the home/student one, will it be possible for me to work in a document produced in X5? And then sending it back and forth?
And with working I mean that the ONLY thing I need to do (at least for now at this moment) is working on the texts included.
Is there someone who can inform me about the compatibility between those two editions?
Hey there!
I ve just purchased new version of DRAW and noticed a big problem while working with text.
When I insert txt in txt frame all is normal. When I convert txt frame into artistic txt, corel starts to "count something" all over the lines. In that time becomes unresponsive and goes through the lines two times... When you zoom in or zoom out it starts all over again... I have also made a video so you can see what am I talking about. It happens with pasted txt or with written txt. Really impossible to work now.
I have x5 also installed on my computer.. and there is everything normal... the process of this "counting" is normal / fast and doesn't slow don the process.
I have disabled all the spelling, checking etc.. Computer is Intel i7 with 16gb of RAM, bla, bla.. so there shouldnt be any problems...
All the help appreciated.
Regards, Jure.
Every now and again I hit Ctrl M when typing instead of Shift M but because I've usually typed a lot of text before I realise, I panic and do all sorts of stupid things to get rid of those square boxes. I know I can do a series of Undo's until I get back to when it went wrong, but then I have to retype everything. Is there another way to "undo" Ctrl M (or just get rid of it?).
Using the code below, what would I need to add/remove to allow selection of textfont on the Layer 1?
Set sr = ActivePage.Shapes.FindShapes(Query:="@type ='text:artistic' or @type ='text:paragraph'")
For Each s In sr
If s.Text.Story.Font = strFont Then
If ar1(0) = "" Then
ar1(0) = " " & s.StaticID
Else
ReDim Preserve ar1$(UBound(ar1) + 1)
ar1(UBound(ar1)) = " " & s.StaticID
End If
End If
Next s
I'm wanting to buy CorelDraw x7 and I download the trail to check it out. When I go to install I have problems.
I'm running windows 7 64bit.
When installing, It goes through with installing up to the point of pulling up the first box that requires interaction from me. There is a box with a large box in the middle that is completely blank. The words on top of the box that says CorelDraw Graphics Suite X7 to the left and the balloon on the right with the x. Below the big box in the middle is a small check box with no text next to it and below it a line then a box with a ? in it and then two more boxes that I guess would be buttons. I have called CorelDraw and got nowhere so I'm asking on here because I would like to use the program for upcoming projects. The only thing I can do is exit the install.
Thanks,
I created an art collection in RGB. I need to switch it over to pantone colors. Is there an easy/automatic way to do this other than selecting the colors one by one and doing it in the find and replace color tool?
I was searching for a small macro to delete all symbols in a file to increase load/save speed.
After several tries I managed to program it on my own:
Sub del_symbols()
Dim i As Integer
On Error Resume Next
For i = ActiveDocument.SymbolLibrary.Symbols.Count
To 1 Step -1
ActiveDocument.SymbolLibrary.Symbols.Item(i).Delete
Next i
On Error GoTo 0
End Sub
Hope this helps someone ;-)
Best regards
Andreas (DE)
Please, if you have a design with gradient fills do not export out as an eps. The gradients will end up as thousands of lines as seen below. Use pdf or svg!
The circle represents the size of the tool (which does vary, so that would need to be adjustable) and it isnt going to fit through that narrow area. So we would need to show the customer what it would look like if we cut their artwork as is.
That obviously doesnt look very good, so generally the customer would request for us to alter the artwork so that it looks better after being cut. We also will fillet all the inside corners because the tool cannot get all the way to the corner as shown below
So if the customer is expecting that deep cut, it isnt going to happen, it will look more like this
Which isn't usually a problem as long as they are expecting it.