I have used Coreldraw 7 for many years with very few problems. Having recently switched fro Windows XP to Windows 7, I purchased Coreldraw X7 (Home & Student) and am rather disappointed by some of the problems I am encountering. In the old program I could create a large rectangle that almost filled the page, and completely fill it with a texture such as "Airbrush" or "Neon Slice" with the bitmap resolution and maximum size set to (for example) 120 and 257 respectively. If I do the same thing in X7 I end up with several "tiles" in the fill pattern, and changing the resolution and/or tile width makes no difference. Is this a bug, or a limitation, or am I doing something wrong? To add to the mystery, if I create a large texture-filled rectangle using my old Coreldraw 7, save the file, and then open it in X7, it is perfectly OK. It's only when I try to create the same thing from scratch in X7 that the problem occurs.
CorelDRAW 7.0 was many years backsince I used. It was my first version though :-) When creating the rectangle, and you like to fill the rectangle, do you use the PowerClip feature? Have you tried using the Interactive Fill Tool?
Lets say you are using the Inetractive Fill Tool. 1) Create a Rectangle 2) Interactive Fill Tool in the Toolbar 3) And choose let say Bitmap Pattern Fill in the Property Bar, while Interactive Fill Tool is selected, you can click the Edit Fill icon/button to the right on the fill features in the propert bar, and make adjustments there.
Or if you simply have a fill to fill a rectangle, is PowerClip something that would work for you?
Hi Stefan- thanks for your responses
OK Here is what I did step by step:-
Start Coreldraw X7, select new document, select landscape orientation
Draw rectangle,
With rectangle selected and object properties open click texture fill, select neon slice (in "samples"), click "edit fill" set bitmap resolution to 120 and maximum tile width to 257. click OK
The result is as shown in Screen 1 (six tiles filling the rectangle)
I then went through an identical procedure on my old Corel 7. I then cut and pasted the resulting rectangle into a new Corel X7 document. The result is as shown in Screen 2.
See also my reply to your other response regarding interactive fill
Steve
Hi Stefan, I didn't use Powerclip or Interactive Fill. I just went through the procedure as given in my other response. (Corel 7 didn't have the interactive fill tool, so it's unknown territory for me). I did do a little experimentation by selecting the rectangle shown in Screen 1 of my earlier response and using the interactive fill tool (without really knowing what I was doing). I managed to get the rectangle looking more like the second screenshot. So I am a little happier knowing that I should be able to get similar result provided I spend more time learning about the new tools. However I am still surprised that Corel X7 gave a different result, though the process was the same.