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You didn't mention what the prior release you used was, but starting
with X3 curve direction is highly meaningful for some objects and some
operations. When node editing, you can reverse curve direction when
required.

Llewner wrote:
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> Since upgrading to X4 (w/ sp1), I am having LOTS of trouble trimming
> and / or combining objects. Here is an example from today. I have an
> image that is essentially a mirror right to left of itself. It is
> CLEAN of goofy points and should combine perfectly, however as you can
> see in the third picture, when I combine all of the objects half of
> them disappear! They are still present in the wireframe, they just
> don't fill correctly as a combined object. I have never had this
> problem in any of the other versions of Corel, and I've been using it
> religiously since 7. Also, the gradient fills are all goofed up, but
> that is a topic for another post. Any suggestions?
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> http://community.coreldraw.com/forums/p/10187/40833.aspx#40833
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Hard to tell without having the vector to work with, but I have had this happen before........no matter what ver. of Corel that I was using.

Sometimes there'a duplicate area that causes the problem, sometimes reversing the node direction on an offending area does the trick.

I'm guessing something is funky with your file. Did you try it with an older version?

The reason I say that is, I just took your post and auto-traced it (2 colors black & white)..........and it combined fine.

 

As Paul mentioned, it could be the winding rule (could be set differently if one of your objects started out as text).

You could try running the following macro on the combined graphic.

Sub ToggleWindingRuleOfSelectedObjects()
    Dim s As Shape
    For Each s In ActiveSelection.Shapes
        If s.Type = cdrCurveShape Then
            If s.FillMode = cdrFillWinding Then
                s.FillMode = cdrFillAlternate
            Else
                s.FillMode = cdrFillWinding
            End If
        End If
    Next s
End Sub

If this doesn't fix it, I might ask you to send me the file.

Regards,
Hendrik

There's more info in these posts:

http://community.coreldraw.com/forums/p/1036/3564.aspx#3564

http://community.coreldraw.com/forums/p/4480/16458.aspx#16458

Hendrik