Is there any way to get Corel Photo-Paint 7 to use its clipboard to bring up the latest screenshot using just the Print Screen button on the keyboard rather than illegible text of something that I apparently copied earlier before? I had somehow been able to do it for years on my old HP PC (Windows 7), but ever since I got a new Dell PC (Windows 10) on June 21st, whenever I just hit the Print Screen on my keyboard to make a screenshot, all I get on my clipboard in CPP7 is some illegible text rather than the latest screenshot (image). This has been maddeningly frustrating for me, so someone, anyone PLEASE HELP - I would appreciate it tremendously. THANKS very much.
My work flow never required it. I also avoid software until I absolutely require it, there's no free lunch something always bites your butt.
Mates! You would never go back to a dumb clipboard once you do. Windows has some dumb version of a clipboard manager but it would turn you off rather than onto the idea.
Not like it cost you anything, it's open source.
I have had little luck with open source. GIMP is on my system but rarely used. Open source I'vevtried has been more trouble than it was worth.
You are using open source software right now. It's called "the internet".
I have said with GIMP wait for version 3 currently 2.99 beta. They have had a lot they need to recode for a new plugin system... "The focus of this version is to complete the GTK+3 port".
You have to view the roadmap and understand what that means and why.
https://wiki.gimp.org/wiki/Roadmap
What you get is a known roadmap and a bug tracking system that engages with the developers. We can only wish for that here.
So the question I would ask is "what is the limit of development in an image editor"?
It isn't infinity or is it?
There is a point where open source software reaches a level that 99% of needs are meet.
I'm using LibraOffice, Thunderbird Email, Firefox (prebeta), Ditto, OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) VLC player, Audacity... these tools meet needs just fine.
DaVinci Resolve the free version only lacks a few things I'd like, noise reduction being the main one.
Then Corel, DXO, Luminar AI, VueScan
It's possibly a mistake not to be using Photoshop and Dreamweaver. It's not a great call to not be using Adobe products if you want an "employee" job in Australia. Or MS Office for that matter. Any job advert quotes those as "essential". It's a bit less "Mac" than it was 10 years ago. But perhaps even more Adobe.
I sense that Corel specifically CGS having "secrets" works more against them than being open and transparent. The sorts of secrets CGS has compared to the advantages of being open don't really do much to deal with the real issues of professional market perception. The professional market want to know where you are going and what the current issues are. CGS has a big problem, they are not perceived (here at least) as "industry standard". They need a radical change in openness to address that (as well as other things). Features are not the issue.
I don't run BETA versions of anything. As far as making my point you're making it better than I ever could.
If the mess that we call the internet is open source I need say no more. To me the internet reminds me of the old Three Stooges plumber skit, where they're all in a tub encased inside a rectangle of leaking pipes.
Canadian programming is the best I can say for Corel products but as you say what is the limit of development of an image editor? Photo-PAINT does 90% of all I need, it does not crash for me, adding PaintShop Pro, AfterShot Pro and a few utilities and I have a high quality and profitable process.
My yearly costs for my personal studio is less than peanuts. My profits on image editing are very good.
Traditional graphics, signs, architectural design and donor walls have had an increasingly downward pressure on profit margins in the last two years making it less attractive to me. I'm fairly sure the situation will not recover on a National basis.
Core seems to be doing OK in Europe but in the US not so well, none of my architectural clients use it anymore and I don't blame them. Since X8 Corel has made so many changes that adversely effected a corporate workflow that they are no longer a viable choice.