My post Why does Corel Draw Graphics Suite X5 feel more like beta software? explains everything im having an issue with X5. In an effort to log the issues with this software, Im asking that if your an X5 User and are having file corruption, crashes, freezes and other such fun stuff happening to you killing your time and money while in Draw or Photopaint, please post it here.
In order to keep it all clean and easy for someone at Corel to follow, please only list issues for X5 and not turn it into a discussion out of topic.
Please, there is no need to try to defend Corel here as Iv used Corel since version 4 (not X4), so thats a long time using it.
Already exists a post with a list of wishes for a service pack, you don't need to create other, is better to post all on the same list
This is not a wish list. Its pretty obvious that it is not as the word wish was never used and is a Bug Report. Your posts Ariel are not a help.
Pleas list any issues in this post. Thank you.
Hi.
Same as x4.
When starting x5 if mouse is over a button, that button gets pressed. Same when opening a blank document.
-John
X5 shuts down on me many times during every work session. Sometimes when I am changing fonts, sometimes when editing bitmaps, sometimes when importing bitmaps, sometimes when applying a transparency. Bang - just shuts down. I can have Corelpaint open editing a bitmap and CD closes underneath it. I can open window to import a file and CD closes as I search the thumbnails. It closes when I click the change page tab.
Doesn't seem to be any specific act or function that closes it - it just shuts down. Gone.
No warning. I lose everything since the previous save. Half the time the working file is corrupted, too, so I can't even restore it. I have to keep numerous versions on disk and use save-as with every save to keep just one alive.
Same exact issue with me. I've used X4 (and other earlier versions) with relatively good functionality. X5 is crashing so much and seemingly so randomly it's maddening at best. The time wasted from lost work, and now trying to find an answer, is setting me so far behind I could scream. I can't believe this is so difficult to address.
Issue(s): CRASHES AT LEAST ONCE DURING EACH WORK SESSION
Solution(s): The old adage "Save early. Save often." has never rang so true as it does with this release. Get used to clicking "Save" after each action (assuming you're lucky enough to open the document) - make it an autopilot response... and pray you weren't distractedly productive enough to forget!
Vista Ultimate 32-bit Service Pack 2, Intel Quad-core 2.4GHz, 4GB RAM, 500GB (277GB free) HD
If all users have the same program, and some people have problems everyday but most people works fine everyday withouth crashes or other issues... what's the difference? since it's not the computer, I believe is the operating system, or, in other words, how you configure your operating system.
Ariel said:If all users have the same program, and some people have problems everyday but most people works fine everyday withouth crashes or other issues... what's the difference?
It's called a bug. CorelDraw X5 is the ONLY app that regularly, without fail crashes every session out of the dozens I use, several of them every day - for hours. I'm guessing that chasing down an OS config issue with Microsoft tech support for this isolated new CD X5 release issue would be very unproductive.
Also, for every one of us that takes the time to sign up and speak out about an issue, there are dozens, if not hundreds of other users with the same issue who just deal, and dozens, if not hundreds more who quietly search these threads looking for an answer, and wander elsewhere when they don't find it.
Corel wants me to call AND PAY their tech support to resolve this issue. If I should do that, I will post the resolution.
I will take an object and convert to bitmap, then edit bitmap.
Work on it in PP, then "Finish Editing"
Sometimes my work doesn't make it back to Corel Draw. And, of course, it's also gone from PP (while PP itself remains open).
This doesn't happen all of the time. Loss of work is not good.
in PP:
open PPthen open another instance of PP... sometimes they both crash.
After the last freeze/crash and clicking OK on many many "out of memory" message boxes, another messagebox came up:
That I can remember, this is the first time I've seen this particular message. Maybe the condition # in the title is somehow helpful to the Corel guys hunting down these problems (?).
PP crashing when I'm using the pencil + Ctrl to go in a straight line (back and forth with the stylus) is definitely a *reproducible* crashing problem... at least on my computer.
open a PNGdo some stuff to itsave as jpgdo more work
save... the box that comes up says file type PNG... not the last file type you set... it should be JPG now because the file listed in PP's titlebar is ****.JPG
When hitting save (ctrl-s), you should be able to assume that the file and type would be the same as what you're working on.
do a save as and it also comes up as PNG... but should now be JPG too.
Upon viewing the jpgs in iview, it says that the files are actually PNGs with incorrect extensions (?).
with overscroll on, and scrolled to a corner (for example)
magic wand something and the position of the image moves so the overscrolled part is gone. The image shouldn't move.
The image also gets repositioned after a save... and after other mask related tasks.