What happened to Connect?

The workflow for adding and accessing additional content, such as Fills, Images, Templates, Fonts, etc., has been updated for CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2019. Below you will find detailed information on how you can make the most of this new workflow.

Within CorelDRAW 2019 (or Corel PHOTO-PAINT 2019), open the Welcome Screen, and select Get More in the left pane. Here, you will see offerings of many types on the various tabs. The content type appears below the title/pack name. Let's take a look at some specific examples of content to demonstrate how to download, where the content is stored and how you can access them.

Template Packs

To download Template Packs, select the Content tab from the Get More page in the Welcome Screen. You can also download template packs from within the New from Template dialog: click the Get More button, and choose a Template Pack.

The name of the pack may be misleading if you don't see the category written underneath the pack name. Let's take a look at the Business Pack. The category - Template Pack - is shown below the pack name.

After you click the DOWNLOAD button followed by INSTALL, the package will download and unpack (see the green progress bar under "ITEM DOWNLOADING").

After downloading, the new templates are accessible from the New from Template dialog box in CorelDRAW (File > New from Template). If you don't see the templates after a successful download, it might be because the middle drop-down list box is not set to All templates.

Templates packs are added to C:\Users\{username}\Documents\Corel\Corel Content\Templates.

A video is also available in CorelDRAW under the Welcome Screen in the “What’s New” section. More videos should be made available soon.

Fill Packs

Fill packs are also downloaded from the Content tab from the Get More page in the Welcome Screen. You can also download fill packs from within the Fill picker: click the Get More button, and choose a fill pack.

Once downloaded, you can access Fill packs from the Fill picker. Simply, click the Interactive Fill tool in the Toolbox, click the Fountain Fill, Vector pattern Fill or Bitmap pattern fill button, and open the Fill picker.

All fill packs you download are added to C:\Users\{username}\Documents\Corel\Corel Content\Fills.

Modern Life, Earth and Nature, Transportation and Layout Pack

Image and Layout packs are downloaded from the Content tab from the Get More page in the Welcome Screen.

Image packs include clipart and photos and can be accessed from the CONNECT Content docker. They are added to C:\Users\{username}\Documents\Corel\Corel Content\Images.

Font Packs

Font packs can be downloaded from the Content tab from the Get More page in the Welcome Screen. You can also download font packs from within the application font lists: click the Get More button, and choose a Font Pack.

Once Font packs are downloaded, the fonts are immediately available in the Fonts drop-down lists, however, the fonts are not installed automatically. They can be managed (installed) in Corel Font Manager.

Font packs are downloaded to C:\Users\{username}\Documents\Corel\Corel Content\Fonts.

Note:

All downloaded assets from a previous version should also be available in CDGS 2019, you simply need to download them locally from CDGS 2018, 2017 and point to them whether they are images, fills or templates. They are simply no longer available online.

Tips and FAQ:

• All properly installed packs should show under “My Library” tab under Get More
• Why does the button still says “INSTALL” after I have downloaded the pack?
  This is currently working as designed. Our current implementation does not monitor installation success. This was discussed, and seen as a benefit to allowing users who have installation issues the ability to retry the install.
• Why do I see duplicates of my images or fills downloaded?
  This may be because you have clicked INSTALL again after the pack has successfully downloaded and decompressed on your system since the button does not change to INSTALLED (as explained before, we do not monitor the installation success). This is currently working as designed since user may modify their content locally so instead of replacing them, we are adding another copy using different names. User can always delete the duplicates.
  For removing duplicate entries, go to Windows Explorer and open the path where the content is stored (e.g. for an image pack C:\Users\{username}\Documents\Corel\Corel Content\Images\...); sort the entries by date to receive the most recently installed duplicates at the top of the list. Select the duplicate files (which you can identify by their number suffix in the name and delete it.
  (For instance, if the original file name was CDS145565.cdr and CDS145566.cdr did not exist, the second copy will be named CGS145566.cdr. If the file name also exists, it will create one number after the last one (+1). So if CGS145565, 566 and 567 exist in your original install but not 588 then after reinstalling on top will get ...568, ...569 and ...570).

While your directions are quite clear (and I have been using Corel since it first came out) with the installation of 2019, the Connect Content for Get More is absent of any products at all.  Whether I go through the docker or through one of the property settings, such as fills, either way (and yes, I am logged in and the see the for sale offers) there is no content what so ever.