I recently upgraded from X6 to X7. I cannot get the edit bitmap feature to work, it is grayed out. I had this same problem when upgrading from X5 to X6. That problem was rectified by a re-install and reboot. After perusing the forum, I have tried, to no avail the following:
1.) Did a complete uninstall of all Corel products. Ran CCleaner to clean up registry entries. Did a complete reinstall. Rebooted. Did not fix.
2.) Went into both Corel Photo-Paint and CorelDraw and reset the "Associate" file extensions under Tools/Options. Made sure that CPT was selected in Corel Photo-Paint. Double checked the association in Windows explorer. Did not fix.
3.) Reset my workspaces (F8) command during start-up. Did not fix.
4.) Removed my workspaces under C:\Users\sccarter.DDS\AppData\Roaming\Corel\CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X7\Draw\Workspace. Restarted CorelDraw. Did not fix.
5.) Uninstalled Corel Windows Shell. Reinstalled Corel under custom options and installed the shell. Did not fix.
6.) Waved my magic wand, did a chant, said a prayer. Did not fix.
I am running Windows 7, 64 bit version of x7.
If any other users have experienced this same problem and was able to fix it, please forward the magic potion to me... it would be much appreciated!
Scott, this sounds like a registry issue.
Can you look up a few of these values in the Registry Editor (regedit.exe) ?
1) what is the value of this key?
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.CPT
(Should be "CorelPHOTOPAINT.Image.17")
2) Assuming 1 was correct, can you look up this key:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CorelPHOTOPAINT.Image.17\CLSID
Should be a long guid here,
{a43cbf70-0ffa-3a89-42f9-11edfed78598}
3) If everything is ok so far, then have a look here:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{a43cbf70-0ffa-3a89-42f9-11edfed78598}
You should see a LocalServer32 key with the value pointing to your PhotoPaint executable.
Let me know if you find any issues there.
Thanks,
Andrew
Hello Andrew,
Thank you for the advice. Unfortunately I threw in the towel, reformatted my hard drive, and after I install the 1,500+ Windows updates, I am going to revert back to version X6.
It probably was a registry entry issue, which was my assumption all along.
At least these posts are archived, so if users have similar issues, this would be a good reference.
This was the first response I have received ,(or located via searching the internet groups), that mentions checking specific registry entries.
Scott
Hi all, I had exactly the same issue and this suggestion resolved it. Checked the registry as described by Andrew the COREL guy and found the Image.17 was missing. Open regedit. Find file as described. Right click the word 'Default' and choose modify. Change .15 to .17 and OK.
Greetings,
i'm facing the same problem...and i'm pretty sure it has to do with registry problems (used some registry cleaning & optimisation software and i think it appeared shortly after).
Checking the above i do have the correctlink for .CPT 1)
For 2) however it shows a long one (see picture) but i don't have 3) ...
What is the exact syntax for the 3) so i can add it manually?
Thanks in advance for a quick reply!
Johan
Thanks a lot
I am having the same problem with coreldraw 2019 could you help me with that?? I tried to follow the above directions, but they are for a different version. Everything was working fine until I deleted 2018. I've reinstalled, modified, repaired. I wish I hadnt deleted 2018 even though I had been working in 2019 for months.