Since there are a number of issues right from application crash to File not opening from the last known location, i just request and wish that we get the latest version of corel thats X5 that could be much faster and also minus all the known Issues n bugs.
I am sure there will be a number of members who are wishing the same
I hope corel guys are listening
NO! DON’T GIVE ME X5. FIX X4 OR I HAVE PURCHASED MY LAST UPGRADE OF CorelDRAW.
Sorry to be shouting but after using version 9 without major problems for years I bought version 11. What a disaster. Unstable, very unstable! Then version 12 fixed the unstableness of 11. But it had its own glitches in the closet. I destroyed a relationship of many years with a vendor that provided my company with photo engravings because the quality of the engravings had dropped off. After a month of finger pointing, I found out that when saving CDR 12 files as Adobe Illustrator, the outlines that were placed behind the fills just vanished during the conversion. There were also problems with the cross-hair cursor, property bar readouts, program slowing to a crawl (memory leak?), slow printing, etc., etc. A few problems were fixed with SP1 and SP2 but not the outline problem when converting drawings to AI. I went back to using version 9. Now I have purchased version X4 which fixed the outline conversion problem but some of the same old problems are back and some new ones too.
I want this version of DRAW to work as well as version 9 does for me or this is my last upgrade. I don’t know what I will go to next but it won’t be a new version of DRAW. Tony, are you listening? I have been using DRAW since version 2.01. When version X3 came out without fixing version 12, I just went away for awhile. I went back to version 9 and stopped reading the forums for years. The only contact I had with the CorelDRAW community was Foster Coburn’s newsletter. Then I found that version X4 was coming out and was one of the first to buy it (got the Tee Shirt to prove it). Some of the problems with version X4 remind me of the version 12 problems. The one thing that version X4 has going for it is it is stable (most of the time). At least it is as stable as versions 5, 8 (second issue) and version 9. Those were the best versions for me. Things that prevent me from enjoying version X4 include but are not limited to: Slow printing on non postscript printers, slow launching, s-l-o-w saving, cross hair cursor problems, crappy toolbox icons (at least version 12 allowed you to color them), slowing to a crawl on certain drawings with text and bitmaps, toolbox and drawing page icons not lighting up when selecting tools and missing parts of property bars (this started with SP1 in X4), coarse zooming (this started with SP1 on CDR12), Layer 1, Layer 1, Layer 1, text on curves scrambled sometimes on re-open (version 9 had this problem but was fixed in SP1 or Sp2), dimensioned objects screwed up when importing into another drawing, some white fills open as black in X4, and other problems which don’t irritate me as much as these. I want to use CorelDRAW and enjoy the features that I paid for. I don’t mind this being a work in progress and things being fixed with service packs. What I do mind is not addressing problems with versions and coming out with new versions. I know you have to sell new versions of CorelDRAW to stay in business, but don’t make me pay to fix things wrong with the previous version or worse yet, pay for a new version that has the same unfixed problems as the previous version. I won’t do this any longer. Give me new versions with new features after you have fixed the previous version. Make me LIKE CorelDRAW again.
John
Interesting. Sorry to hear you're just being thrashed with CD... I doubt whether it's CD's fault though unless you happen to have gotten corrupt uninstalled programs. I would wager that most other Systems out there are functioning a lot better than what you describe. I've been using CorelDRAW since version 1 or 2... many different computers and OS... right from Windows 1 (no GUI even)... Not experienced any of those problems you describe... or many problems at all... very rarely occasionally a corrupt file... maybe twice. But that's why I save incremental versions of files now. There's one other fella on the Forum here that has experienced terrible problems as bad as yours as well.
There could be a certain incompatibility with certain programs being installed before CorelDRAW and Windows freaks. I assume you've kept all the Windows SP's current and all... Windows\Temp and C:\Temp files clean... virus and trojan scans... eg: TrendMicro scan or whatever... not too many fonts loaded; lots of RAM and hard drive space... large swap file capability... fast CPU... good video card with lots of RAM... make sure the RAM is good... Any part of any computer can spontaneously just self destruct all on its own without too much help from the operator. Sometimes it's just ugly for some existing systems. It's almost as if a lemon system has suddenly emerged out of what may have been really good at one time. That is one thing you might try is getting it on another entirely different computer and then start adding your other programs in after you've determined whether CorelDRAW is working well on a clean system.
I'm currently using 5 different computer systems... 3 of them are Macs with XP or VISTA running on BootCamp... 2 are Windows native systems. One is an older, about 6 years, "built it myself" system. All have worked and continue to work almost perfectly with versions of CorelDRAW from 6 now on up to X4. I even put CorelDRAW 4 back on my Windows 95 laptop for a special job I thought I needed it for to convert version 4 cdr files to version 12. However, even though it worked I ended up putting 6 on an XP computer on one monitor and bouncing the files from there on to an instance of CorelDRAW 12 running on a 2nd monitor. Everything worked flawlessly. And I almost always have at least 8 programs running concurrently on the one computer with multiple files open in some of them... it's rare I have a problem that involves anything more than shutting down a program or two to free up some System resources... especially when a file I'm working on is really intense graphically with bitmaps and special effects and multiple pages and all. I've run files as high as 650MB using X3 on a MacBook Pro (vehicle wrap file)... not a hiccup.
Just musings...