I am using CD2018Suite on a 2018 Microsoft Surface Pro with the i5 and 8GB of RAM. I have used CorelDraw since version 3 and have not had many issues. 2018 seems to have an issue with Powerclip. When I go to edit the clip (embed an image into a shape) and then when I finish editing, Corel takes an excessive amount of time to finish and allow me to do my next task. It takes roughly 20 seconds after clicking the Finish Editing icon. This is extremely frustrating as I have not had this issue with CDX7. Is this a bug in the 2018 version?
Is this when you're first creating the powerclip or if you're editing the powerclip.
Hi David,
Either way. It's when I click on the "Finish Editing" button and it's "saving" the changes within the powerclip. It takes 15-20 seconds to finish what it's doing before I can do any other task.
Yes this is a known issue.
Thank you. I just performed a test. I have a Surface Pro 4 i7 as my work computer and a Surface Pro 6 i5 (which is actually faster) as my freelance computer. The file I am having issues with is a rather large file with several pages and images in it. I tested this on both machines.
I created a new file and created a square. I important an image and then placed that within the square using the powerclip function. I then clicked the "Edit Powerclip" button, resized the image, and ended the editing session and both performed just fine with no lag.
It is just the large file that there is a lag when finishing editing a powerclip. Almost like the file is checking every image within itself.
I hope this helps the developers find a solution. In the meantime I'll have to break my file into several files to keep them small to alleviate the lag.
Did you try my suggestion to edit via Alt+click?Are there many other objects on the same page as the powerclip you are editing?I.e. are there a lot of objects that are rendered semi transparent while editing?
Hello Ronny,
actually yes there are a lot of other objects/images that are on that page the do go transparent when I edit a power clip in that file. I wonder if I should give Draw more RAM to work with within the program settings?
Maybe you could add more RAM to your system, but I don't think it is possible to dedicate a specific amount of RAM to a program in Windows any more.Regarding the transparent objects, there is one thing you can try if you feel comfortable playing with the Registry settings:Close Draw 2018.Open regedit.exeLocate \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Corel\CorelDRAW\20.0\Draw\Application Preferences\PowerclipThere should be two strings in the pane to the right, (Standard) and ShowEmptyContainerX.Right click on an empty area in that pane and select New > String.Name the new string EditDisplayWithPageContext and hit Enter.Double click the string and type 0 (zero) in the Data field, click OK.This will prevent surrounding objects from displaying when editing a powerclip. Open Draw and see if it makes a difference.In previous versions this string was present by default, as well as a few others that allowed us to adjust how much "white" there should be in surrounding objects, but these strings have been removed in version 2018 for some reason.