Hi Mr. Corel,1. I requested Mystic Thumbs to include PhotoPaint CPT thumbnails in their list of thumbnails.2. I received the following reply:
"Hi PhilipWe have looked into CPT before. Unfortunately it is a proprietary format and we were unable to find sufficient information about it to support. If you can hunt down a full format specification then we would consider implementing it.Regards,Ian Mastersemail address: support@mysticcoder.netMysticCoder Pty Ltd
It may be too much of a coincidence, but so far most of the people who seem to have a permanent problem with thumbnails or previews are those that use mystic thumbs. Others have usually managed to fix them after following suggestions in the forum.
Now, I'm not suggesting that MT actually breaks Corel thumbnails. I've tried installing it on a system with working thumbnails, and so far not managed to break them.
I think it is more a case that something may already have been broken in windows when CorelDraw was installed, preventing the Corel shell extension from installing properly. But then MT papers over the cracks and makes it impossible to fix the original problem, because those cracks are now impenetrably sealed.