I´ve found a bug in CorelDraw X7, that should be urgently fixed
If we create a gradient (elliptical, conical or rectangular), and save it in a lower version with X7, when you opened it again, it will be totally different than if it was saved with version 17 (X7).
Please check it and give me a feedback.
Thank you very much!
Best regards
Ricardo Serradas
Hello Ricardo; X7 is a all new program, meaning it does colors different from the older programs. If you back save it to a older ver. it will more than likely be different. than if saved as a X7.
George
Gradient fills have had a complet makeover in X7 and have controls that are very different from X6 and what went before, therefore saving back to a previous version will degrade the gradient to the previous versions type. No way round that, it progress. If you absolutely need to keep the gradient then you either have to keep it as an X7 file or convert it to a bitmap. I would expect exporting to PDF would convert it to bitmap.
When you save to the previous version and you have something in the file that is not completely supported in the previous version, you should be given the choice to preserve edibility but lose precise appearance or to preserve the appearance (by converting to bitmap) but lose editability.
Yes, it's not "a bug", those are new features of CorelDRAW X7 and, logically, are not supported by X6. The only way is to convert to bitmap.
First of all, the elliptical, conical or rectangular gradients are not something new.
The problem is that when we save a gradient in a lower version and open it again with X7, it will change the transformation parameters, when it shouldn't. (as shown at the picture below). If you change the transformation parameters back to 100% the image will be the same again... That's why I've called it a "bug", because there is no reason to alter those parameters.
Thank you for your comments.