Curves function... a miserable excuse of the most important tool.
Export to web... would it kill ya to separate the interface into separate process for the controls and the preview. It's just consumed 80% of my time waiting for a preview that isn't the res I want just so I can set the res and have to wait again.
Export to web with multiple tabs. Unless you work from the last tab forward the idiot program flip to the last tab during the render process then fricken takes the file name from the last tab and spits it at you as the file name (for save) of the tab you are working on.
Then we have the bullshit of these menus and keystrokes. SERIOUSLY what new user is going even find "dust and scratches". Then to make this crap code work you have to duplicate the image, apply D&S, then blend it back on an "if darker" setting. What a PITA that could so obviously be done in the D&S code.
And don't you dare defend this slack effort from Corel David or I'll are reach through the screen and pull your bloody arms off!
This is a program what 20 generation old? It just screams "who the blood hell is providing credible feedback that is meaningful in a photography workflow and if that person even exists then why the hell aren't Corel listening!"
Here's a good one... DRAW... I'm doing a very rough plan view of where my house sit on a block.
So I draw an outline for the block. Then the basic house bits. And then put dimensions on them.
Fricken thing the base box keeps being selected.
WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
Yani said:
Fricken thing the base b
Sounds like you have have the "Treat Objects as Filled" on. By default Corel has it on. One of the first things I do is turn that off then save settings as default.
Ok, I got on my wife's machine AMD 64 bit OS with X8 installed, default workspace, same result as 2018, 2020 and 2021.5.
I draw a rectangle, any scale any outline, I draw dimensions, I right click the rectangle and I can lock the rectangle.
When you resize the rectangle do the dimensions automatically change with it?
I assume you mean before and after you unlock the rectangle. I'll check.
If not am I creating the dimension incorrectly?
Right, without it being locked. Or when you select the rectangle does it say that it's a "Control Rectangle" after drawing the dimensions?
Ok now we're getting somewhere. The issue was how I draw my dimensions, In the case of a rectangle I draw it with the outline set to the inside. I pull guidelines and draw my dimension lines to the guidelines but well outside the rectangle. I rarely ever resize the graphic, if I need to I redraw the dimensions. Also keeping the graphic independent can give you more flexibility IMO.
This generates a proper dimension line that is not linked to the graphic so I can then lock the graphic. I always do this to keep the dimensions well outside the graphic because I convert all to curves so I can shrink the drawing for a PDF, sized for emailing and the clients printer.
If I draw the dimension line directly to the edges of the rectangle then the rectangle becomes a control object and I cannot lock it.
However I've always done it as in my first paragraph because to utilize emailed reduced sized PDF files you have to convert the dimension lines to curves and set the outline to scale to the drawings. As long as the dimensions are well outside the graphic the arrows reduce down and will not cover any of the graphic.
I've been using reduced sized PDF files and dimension lines like this since forever. I use my saved drawing, make the adjustments of converting to curves, setting outlines to scale to drawing, select all group, reduce size, publish the selected to PDF. Undo all the changes or simply close Draw without saving.
One drawing to rule them all. Of course the method of drawing the dimension lines is the ticket.
I think this says a lot more about having really useful features that aren't being used in combination except in special circumstances. I absolutely love this for doing simple plan or elevation drawings. I can place a photo down, scale it to the "real world" then get pretty accurate dimensions of other objects in the photo.
Being objective...
Nothing here says you can't lock objects with dimensions.
http://product.corel.com/help/CorelDRAW/540238885/Main/EN/Documentation/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm#href=CorelDRAW-Drawing-dimension-lines.html
You cannot lock linked objects, such as blends, contours, or text inside an object. You also cannot lock objects within groups or linked groups.
http://product.corel.com/help/CorelDRAW/540238885/Main/EN/Documentation/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm#href=CorelDRAW-Locking-objects.html#1309607
Let's say, "no big deal, accept this for what it is. It's a complex program, these things happen."
Personally, I don't think it is great at all and that these types of things are exactly where focus needs to go.
Anyway who cares right.
What remains is
The lock is a feature I can barely remember using, so yes this went unnoticed. Clearly it hasn't been a significant problem as I can't remember any other posts about it. Then again you're talking to a guy who in 60 years hasn't used a safety on his firearms.
The question that remains, is there a reason complex items can't be locked? One would think that you should be able to lock anything. So if the lock is disabled for complex items then I assume that there can be two reasons, an oversight 9r a coding issue.
As per the help a pile of stuff doesn't lock. I didn't try those functions to see if it would be likely to be a pest.
Could be that it isn't represented as a single object but nor is a group.
I pretty much rate all the little things as being more important than new features. Overtime they accumulate and you end up with "quirky" software.
Like because way back PP Image/Correction/Dust and Scratches
When bitmaps options come to Draw via Bitmaps/ filters
We don't get any D&S in Draw.
And it's a nuts position in PP in the first place, it belongs in filters. Little things like that make it difficult for new users.
How many of those sorts of things remain?
Have they manage a get a single PhotoPaint instance when working from Draw?
I told you, go outside, face towards Canada and yell real loud, then sit back and wait. That's as good as bug and feature reporting gets.
I've been trying to get them to disable the default grid activation at 800% zoom in Photo-PAINT for decades.
EVERY DAMN IMAGE I have to turn the grid off. Who does not zoom to 800% or more for edits?
Bitmap editing in Draw has its uses but not for critical edits, the display isn't good enough. The Photo-PAINT link from Draw has certain issues, there are features that can be done in Photo-PAINT that have to be saved as the CPT file format and imported into Draw to work.
A great deal of this crap is caused by the cheap a$$ I want it for free mentality. I read a post on this forum about Wacom tablets, "best tablet under $100) Christ blow me, I can't take the family for fast food for $100.
Wow, you really need to take a look at using the "Quick Dimensions" macro. Select the rectangle hit the letter d (that's what I assigned the macro to) and BAM! you have dimensions separate from the rectangle.