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
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:Sure do, but very often I actually want to select all the contents of a PowerClip to nudge them a bit and then, potentially, get back to node editing. So this bug is a bit of a showstopper. Good thing pogo found out a method that helps snap out of it.
I believe on this case is not a bug, just the program doesn't work in the way you want. You can select a node (or several nodes) then select the edit content icon as you show in the image, and the program seems to be locked, but it's because you're using the Shape tool and edit powerclip need to use the Pick tool. So, just select the Shape tool again (when the programs doesn't responding) , edit what you need, and finish editing the powerclip.
In addition, if you want to nudge the content of the powerclip, edit the content with the Pick Tool and move it, or select the nodes with the shape tool and move the nodes. Both ways works fine.
joe said:Well, I'd say it is a bug if the program offers the option to select all shapes inside the powerclip while node editing. It should either automatically switch to the pick tool (makes most sense) OR not offer that PowerClip toolbar while node editing.
Exactly, that was I said before, Actually it automatically switch to the pick tool, and that's your problem: you should switch to the Shape tool after this and continue working. That's all. There's no freeze at all if you switch to the Shape tool. I agree it could be confuse for begginners, at it could be improved.
So, first update, great. Not really sure if things are faster, as promised. Maybe... seemed so at first, but now i'm not entirely sure. Might need to compare with previous version.
Anyhow, we are here for the bugs:
Should be self explanatory, but basically in the latest update dragging a new color to the gradient crashes CorelDRAW. Can anyone confirm?
I got this wonderful surprise after a fairly extensive tracing and "coloring" by adding shapes behind the drawing job. Right on the final step of adding a background gradient. What a great feeling that was, made even better by no auto backups being present when restarting.
Same happens with transparency gradients.
Also, this is some great intuitive interface work if you want to move a gradient node: