This is a bit of a duplicate from the thread I had in the X8 forums, but perhaps it will get some developer attention here.
1) I'm not sure if that's a side effect of the new system or someone at Corel actually listened, but the selection redraw on Undo is gone, which is BIG.
This is how it used to behave (in X8): (Demo is a self-made nesting macro - basically just moving objects around)
And this is now:
It's still not perfect, as the cursor blinks and it is slower than what this does:
Sub ProperUndo()
Optimization = True ActiveDocument.unDo Optimization = False ActiveWindow.Refresh Application.Refresh
End Sub
But it's a step in the right direction.
2) Not sure if sketching is super stylus/finger optimized, but with a Mouse the results are terrible:
3) Corel, I implore you - Let us Right click - Frame type - None with multiple selected objects or make deleteing all objects in PowerClip in VBA turn off that X).
4) Picking colors through Powerclips changes their colorspace, that's BAD (Also in X8):
5) Add .PNG support to custom icons, please (Since, apparently, CD itself cannot export usable .ICO files with transparent backgrounds for this purpose).
6) Not that outlandish a scenario - a bunch of powerclip objects with some 150 DPI images inside. Would you like to enter a powerclip and, perhaps, zoom in? Well, better have a cup of tea handy:
Do you think this is normal/acceptable, Corel?
More to come with more usage.
Alright, here are some other annoyances that are still present. These have to do with Document Palette.
Issue one - the entire palette panel should be good for dragging and dropping objects to sample colors, not just the active elements. If you don't have any colors there or just a few it's super annoying to try and hit the couple of pixels that will let you in:
Especially ironic given how there's a nice inviting text telling you to drag the colors "here".
And a second thing, which has been an issue for a while - I don't know where it gets the colors from, but CorelDRAW just loves throwing in color duplicates or even colors that aren't even in the scene. This is a brand new document, nothing has ever been there previously. Let's change the color and reset the palette, shall we?
On first approach we get a bunch of colors that aren't even there, like the balck and on second approach we get a duplicate color for whatever reason and an extra color that isn't even in the document... why? This should be a tool you can use to check the colors in your document, but as is, it is absolutely unreliable (I'm not sure if it also does things like different names for the same color in several varieties, like C100 M100 Y0 K0 and C:100 M:100 Y:0 K:0 as it did in previous versions, haven't encountered that yet). I can build a macro to help with this, but not everyone can, so this should work properly out of the box.
joe said: Alright, here are some other annoyances that are still present. These have to do with Document Palette. Issue one - the entire palette panel should be good for dragging and dropping objects to sample colors, not just the active elements. If you don't have any colors there or just a few it's super annoying to try and hit the couple of pixels that will let you in: Especially ironic given how there's a nice inviting text telling you to drag the colors "here".
I tried several times on CorelDRAW 2017 with several selected objects and I can drag the color on any place of the document palette, even if it's a new document and there's not previous colors.
btw you have the option of "add from selection" also
Well, the evaluation version ran out so I just reinstalled a nice, clean full version of 2017 here and this is what I get:
If you can drag the colors anywehere then here it's either a OS thing or some other strange issue that apparently wasn't caught during testing.
And I'm aware about the options, but drag and drop is easier and faster and afaik worked just fine previously.
Here's another bug - Basically if you have a curve shape that's a powerclip and you click the "Select PowerClip contents" button while node editing CorelDRAW will become completely unresponsive to any actions in the workspace - you can switch documents, save files and close CorelDRAW, but nothing else.
In the demo above I'm furiously clicking, not just moving the mouse, but nothing happens. Sometimes it seems to snap out of it if you save the document or wait quite a long time.
Either way this seems to continue the streak of strange PowerClip behaviour and is really rather annoying.
joe said: Basically if you have a curve shape that's a powerclip and you click the "Select PowerClip contents" button while node editing CorelDRAW will become completely unresponsive to any actions in the workspace - you can switch documents, save files and close CorelDRAW, but nothing else.
It could be a bug because the program become unresponsive, btw it's supposed that it should not work at all, since you should use the Pick tool for select the content of the powerclip, not the shape tool