It is now July and I still do not see any new bug fixes to correct the multitude of issues with this latest design of CorelDraw 2019. I have every current update installed and am wondering if the new owners(a hedge fund) even care about quality? I know I would definitely want to have people who use my products to be able to give glowing recommendations, but with 2019 it is becoming difficult to recommend it to my peers. While there have always been issues with Corel, particularly exporting as an EPS file, for the most part, the design aspects have performed as expected. But now there are a bunch of issues that make it difficult to convert to and I find I have to continue using 2018 to get reliable production done. This is the worst upgrade I have ever purchased from Corel and they should be ashamed they released it with it being so buggy! Any news on updates would be appreciated because I feel they sold me a lemon, and worse they keep dropping the upgrade price without any fixes available which have me concerned that they don't intend to fix it.
tihzho said:Thank you David!! Damn after all these years...finally.
Cross hair cursor exist since severa years ago
Yup. I've hit that a multitude of times. I used to be able to save my envelope setting to come up the same every time, but can't in this version...
From what I am figuring out is that Corel changed a lot of features but it seems, as usual, didn't provide sufficient documentation on how to achieve things as we use to do.
What I earlier considered buggy behavior is just that they did things differently and you have to figure out what the new way is in order to get it to work. For instance, if you want to use apply bitmap effect VBA with certain effects in CorelDRAW 2018 you have to first have photo paint active or else the macro will not work properly even though you can apply it just fine directly from CorelDraw.
What I have found out is you can directly apply it from CorelDraw 2019 without having to activate PP. I have not tried them all but I did try a few and so far so good.
If they would properly document the syntax needed or how to achieve certain goals in the program they would have a lot happier customers than they do at this juncture of the 2019 rollout. Of course, they still need to fix the x and y coordinate issue I have.
Don't be in too much of a hurry. You'll quickly find the crosshair cursor is missing a HECk of a lot of functionality that you take for granted with the normal cursor. It catches me out every time, I'm drawing a rectangle and tweak it, move it and then try to do something else only to find you're still with the rectangle tool as the cursor looks to all intents and purposes just like the pick tool. And there are some bugs that i've reported that only apply to the crosshair cursor, not the standard cursor, and because I'm about the only one of the beta testers that uses the crosshair the bugs get no traction and don't get fixed.
CorelUser2911 said:What I earlier considered buggy behavior is just that they did things differently and you have to figure out what the new way is in order to get it to work.
Any software update that makes you do that is a major FAIL IMO. Software developers that don't understand how the software is used. Some of the changes are just stupid and serve no useful purpose, the worst (I bet someone else will list their worst!) is the Options. Yes the old dialogs were ugly and cut off some info but they had everything in one place. Now we have to go into and out of 5 different options sets to find what we're looking for. This is just utter stupidity on Corels part and someone should get fired for suggesting it was kept in even though testers railed against it mightily.