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Phil1923 over 9 years ago

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 Philip
We 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 Masters
email address: support@mysticcoder.net
MysticCoder Pty Ltd

3. Could you kindly send the CPT specification to support@mysticcoder.net

4. It would end ten years of complaints about the CDR Shell Extension.
Phil

Ian Prest over 9 years ago

re: #4: What problems are you encountering with the CDR Shell Extension?
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Phil1923 over 9 years ago in reply to Ian Prest

Hi Ian,
Here's my reply to Patti Anderson for the same question.

Hi Patti,
Both CPT and CDR missing thumbnails have been a festering problem for some of us for over ten years. Here's a link to a recent thread.

http://community.coreldraw.com/talk/coreldraw_graphics_suite_x7/f/810/t/48215

Nothing worked.

Corel's response over the years has been that they "will look into it" or some vague statement that something is interfering with their perfect Shell Extension.

At least there is a solution for missing CDR thumbnails -- use Mystic Thumbs. Mystic Thumbs works when the Shell Extension does not work.

Worst of all, Corel has assumed the bizarre position that they will not reveal the CPT specification to Mystic Thumbs. Even other Corel applications can not open CPT files. Yet Mystic Thumbs makes thumbnails for Corel CDR, Corel PaintShopPro , Photoshop, and over one hundred other file formats.

What's so secret about CPT thumbnails. Most likely they are nothing more than a zipped version of a flattened image with a TOP SECRET interface.

In any case, PP X7 doesn't seem to have anything new since PP X6 -- except a lot of crashing.
Phil"

PS to Ian: What's your reaction to PP X7. Is it worth the aggravation of getting it to work if PP X6 is a solid application.
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bob over 9 years ago

Hi Phil,
For reasons unknown on my one laptop, an ASUS brand win 7 8gig i7. Since x6 I lost my thumbs, all of them. Nothing in Windows explorer and nothing in connect, gone. I have pretty much tried everything . Since I installed mystic thumbs they are all back.

For the $25.00us price for mystic thumbs it was no longer worth my time chasing the issue down. I did spend hours plus on this, worked with Corel to no avail as well as many highly skilled power users I know, nothing. I still think it's something in my machine locally? From what I learned chasing this down I do not think its a Corel thing.
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Phil1923 over 9 years ago in reply to bob

Hi Bob,
I feel the same way as you do. It's not worth the time and aggravation to try to chase down missing thumbnails.
--- USE MYSTIC THUMBS ----
My problem is that Mystic Thumbs can't make CPT thumbnails. Corel has point blank refused to give Mystic Thumbs the information to create thumbnails. Yet Mystic Thumbs creates thumbnails for Corel CDR files and Corel PSPimage files and over a hundred other files.
Why in the world is Corel refusing to release information on CPT files. Who's going to steal the format.
Phil
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bob over 9 years ago in reply to Phil1923

Hi Phil,
That is an old bad idea keeping cpt exclusive and another one of many reasons why I use Photoshop and Lightroom for raw with Draw. I hardly even open PP. It lacks lots of very cool effects and tools needed for design work, for my workflow it's half baked. On the same token I hardly open Illustrator, it's in the same category as PP here, I use that as a filter to get stuff into Draw. PP could be a powerhouse if someone would drop some dollars and attention into that budget.

All the programs I use accept psds and some even layered psds and that is important here. Yes you can make a psd in pp but why when you can have the real psd and all those great tools/effects. Hopefully one day PP will catch up to PS, been waiting years for that.

With mystic thumbs I can see everything I use. Best 25 bucks spent in a long time.
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