I have an issue with the fill. I like the way that some thing change right when I'm changing the color but most times. I can change a simple box to red and the screen goes black, the computer is thinking, I can go get coffee, check mail on iPhone and come back 5 actual minutes and its still sitting there.Is there a way to turn the magic off? Where I can open the fill box, change the color and when I close it, its there. Not automatic. It take a really long time for the color to "happen" on the screen.
Hello klbeckum; That is a computer problem not the program. The more you ask a program to do the more resources it has to use.
George
George! Thanks you so much for responding! Here on the job we all have new PC's and the IT dudes bragged about the specs, how wonderful they were. When Corel was loaded, it was a HUGE let down. Nothing worked as fast as it did on another system running earlier versions of Corel. Giving a clear box color is a long time process. So, it's my system that cant handle Corel, correct? I'd like to show my answers to my IT guy. He made a point of making me look bad complaining about this computer I'm using.Kenneth
Kenneth You can see what I am using in a computer. the MS speed score is 7.3 out of a max of 7.9. A computer that runs at a 5 to 6 should do OK. But the speed test doesn't look at how much ram is in the computer. The computer refresh is probably what's holding you back, a video card with a least 1 gb. of DDR 5 should work ok, If you don't have a video card and the CPU is taking care of graphics then you are using DDR3 for everything. Tell us about the computer and the windows you are using and maybe one of us can give you somethings to try.
Windows Edition
Windows 8.1 Pro
System
Processor Intel,Xeon CPU E5-1620v2 @3.70GHz 3.70GHzInstalled Memory(Ram) 32.0GBSystem Type: 64-Bit Operating System x64-based processorWorking with an HP Z420 WorkstationVideo Card1. Dell E248WFP(Digital)Total Available Graphics Memory 17369dedicated Video Memory 1024I hope that's the right info.Kenneth
Well Kenneth you could see about deleting the Temp files. ( I'm not a Windows 8 fan.) So I don't know the best way to do that Windows 7 doesn't do to well with a lot of them, and more than likely the video card is built into the mobo, and you maybe able to have the tech give it a little more use of the ram, with the ram that's in the computer you may want 3 or 4 gig for the video. It has been a long time since I played with a Dell.
UPDATE: I finally got the IT guy in here. He was asking about my files, the size and how old or new they were. We looked at some of my past work(two days to a week old) and found that the images that I get, Templates from an approved company, are doubling and or tripling in size. The images that I get from our source here are 24-36Megs, I get them and resample them to size them down to 12Megs and under. For some reason, those files that I reduce are now 60-80 megs. Taking forever to open, difficulty in changing color, doing affects and sometimes printing. We stumbled across something that will be time consuming but it the file size is where its suppose to be when the image is copied from the original and pasted in a new work space. We still don't understand but he is going to contact some other people to see why my system saves my 11.7MB file to a huge 80MB.
Thanks so much guys for the help! You made us all dig a little deeper to find out what the problem is and I think we found it. We need to figure out how to fix it now.
Thanks again.
Kenny
BEar in mind that an image such as a jpg or png is compressed, the moment you import it into Draw you have a full uncompressed version of that file, approx 10x the size in memory.
Consider working with externally linked images if you are not going to edit them much in Draw. Externally linked images will display at 45dpi on screen and be a much lower memory overhead. You can edit the image externally in an image editor and have the changed reflect in the Draw document.