Hi Mr. Corel,1. I requested Mystic Thumbs to include PhotoPaint CPT thumbnails in their list of thumbnails.2. I received the following reply:
"Hi PhilipWe have looked into CPT before. Unfortunately it is a proprietary format and we were unable to find sufficient information about it to support. If you can hunt down a full format specification then we would consider implementing it.Regards,Ian Mastersemail address: support@mysticcoder.netMysticCoder Pty Ltd
Hi Gerard,
1. Why make a big deal out of this. What's so secret about CPT files.
2. It's very late in the game for Corel to look for cures for thumbnails after more than ten years of complaints. Obviously, your team is not going to see it on their computers. They never have seen it before.
3. It's better that the Corel team should spend its time to find the causes of all the crashes and bugs that people are still complaining about. My initial installation of DRAW X7 crashed thirty seconds after I opened it.
4. I can't spend any time uninstalling and then reinstalling the OS and about twenty other applications. I uninstalled X7 and reinstalled X6. All thumbnails now appear with the X6 Shell Extension. So what was changed in the X7 Shell Extension.
5. Mystic Thumbs has created thumbnails for Corel CDR files, Adobe PSD files, and about 100 other file types. They must know more about creating thumbnails than anybody else. .
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Phil
Phil1923 said:5. Mystic Thumbs has created thumbnails for Corel CDR files, Adobe PSD files, and about 100 other file types.
Core is a propietary sotware, it's not Open Source. So, I believe that Corel have no plans for share their code with other companies.
If we had to vote on this issue, I would vote for not providing confidential information to Mystic Thumbs or any other company. Instead, perhaps it would be better to buy a Mystic Thumbs or another similar company, if the company decides to seek an external solution.
Have you tried Corel Connect? it's a visual file manager made by Corel. It should display all icons
Hi Mike, This is what Control Panel says about my system. Add a 1 TByte C drive. It's a very ordinary system and never gives trouble. Missing CDR and CPT thumbnails have been a problem for some of us for the last ten years. Do you see any reason that Corel has:1. Ignored the problem for ten years.2. Replaced good Shell Extensions for new buggy versions.3. Making a fuss about supplying Mystic Thumbs with enough information to create CPT thumbnails. PhotoPaint is a defunct application. It's a free give-away so that CDGS can be called a suite. What's the big secret about the CPT file format.Phil
Are you running the default setting in Windows or so you use specific resizing of the Windows?