Is anyone else having issues with CorelDraw 2019 Fountain Fills?
Never had this issues until upgrading from CorelDRAW 2017 to CorelDRAW 2019.
If I choose to change the fill of an object, the drop down menu in properties under fill will be blank or the fills will display and when I selected do not apply to the object.
There are only two ways I can get it to work again. Either draw a new object and then and the select fills, choose desired fill, then use the attribute eyedropper to copy the fill and paste to the original object I wanted to change. This method works 1 out of 20 times and if I am playing with colors until I get the desire look it can take forever. The only other way I know how to fix this issue is, saving my work, closing the program and restarting CorelDraw. This works but will only until I choose a different object that requires a fill and then I am back to square one.
I am having this issue with both my desktop and laptop. My file are locally stored, not in a cloud. What the heck is going on and how come I'm the only one having this issue or bringing it up?
My fountain fills are located in... Documents\Corel\Corel Content\Fills
2018 made a big change from "always go on-line to look for assets" to emphasizing management of locally-stored assets. Some users upgrading from older versions will not be aware of the downloadable collections, so I mentioned them.
I have also used Corel for a long time. I agree with you that, for some types of content, newer versions offer less. Some users have expressed disappointment about that.
In this thread, I posted a document that has the fountain fill presets from X5:
Where are Fountain Fill Presets in CorelDRAW 2018?.
I added that as a courtesy for someone who was missing their old fills after upgrading to a newer version.
After you mentioned "where are the fountain fill presets? I had purchased 2017 with a CD and it had all the extra goodies. I didn't buy 2018. My new computer doesn't have a DVD drive but my laptop does. I may have to check that out and transfer over if I can. Thanks!!