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I was using X3 previously. Never had a siginificant problem there. But now about 50% of the time my objects arn't combining or trimming properly. Reversing the curve direction worked, although it's a REAL pain in the butt, not to mention that I never had to do it before. I did however export everything as .EPS and reimported it and it combined fine then. I am guessing that something in the .EPS filter corrected the issue. Still though, this is a HUGE issue for me. I would hate to think that to merely combine some objects that I will have to export and import them.
This has cured a long frustrating problem for me in X3.
Reverse curve direction to combine works great.
Thanks a whole lot!!
God Bless!!
This old thread explains exactly what I'm dealing with now. I'm trying to make the transition from Illustrator back to CorelDraw, but this problem seems impossible to solve. CorelDraw X6 is failing to trim the files I'm throwing at it 100% of the time. Even Corel's own clipart. Every vector program is failing 100% of the time. Only Illustrator succeeds and it is successful, 100% of the time. Why is Illustrator so perfect at this while all other programs fail? Why has Corel still not sorted this out? This kind of thing should be driving people crazy. Is there a secret to trimming that is not obvious?
KuttyJoe said: This old thread explains exactly what I'm dealing with now. I'm trying to make the transition from Illustrator back to CorelDraw, but this problem seems impossible to solve. CorelDraw X6 is failing to trim the files I'm throwing at it 100% of the time. Even Corel's own clipart. Every vector program is failing 100% of the time. Only Illustrator succeeds and it is successful, 100% of the time. Why is Illustrator so perfect at this while all other programs fail? Why has Corel still not sorted this out? This kind of thing should be driving people crazy. Is there a secret to trimming that is not obvious?
Hi.
Can you put some example files to test? Did you try intersecting to see if it performs any different?
~John
I've attached a file from Corel's clipart collection.
Let me add some information.
1. It doesn't matter what file I choose. Every file fails whether they're from Corel's on clipart or random eps files. They all fail to trim, or intersect simplify. I got this particular file to just about work. When I reversed the path, it trimmed, but one of the wings on the bird vanished. I copied and pasted it directly into Illustrator and it trimmed perfectly in a 10th of a second.
2. Since posting earlier I found that if I choose the path editing tool, then choose to reverse the path I have better success, but still not perfect.
3. I tried intersecting and I also tried simplify. Everything fails.
4. After attempting to trim, intersect, or simplify, when I pressed undo on some files, it went on for like 1 - 2 minutes doing something. I don't know what. I could see what looked like something "running" around all the anchor points over and over again. Instead of instantly doing an undo, it went on like that for over a minute. I thought it had crashed at first but I just let it go and finally it finished whatever it was that it was doing. The path operation happens reasonably quickly, but pressing undo after it fails so I can try again does something very strange and for a long time.
5. I went through the trouble of converting all the outlines to objects in this file so you could easily attempt to trim it, but that is another sore spot for CorelDraw. In Illustrator, you open a file like this, select all, then do a single command to convert all the outlines to objects, then another single command to trim it all out. It takes 1.5 seconds or less and always works. CorelDraw doesn't allow you to simply select all. If you select a shape with an outline and another shape without an outline together, the option to convert the outline is grayed out. This is generally how things are in Draw. Only objects with like characteristics can have operations performed on them. For example live text selected together with objects. In Illustrator you can perform operations meant for text even if you've selected regular objects together with the text. Or you can select objects with outlines together with objects without outlines, then do the command to convert outlines to solids and it works. Otherwise, you'd have to carefully find all shapes that have outlines to perform the operation. That's what I'm doing now in CorelDraw, with the help of the "select same" macro.
KuttyJoe said: I've attached a file from Corel's clipart collection. 1. It doesn't matter what file I choose. Every file fails whether they're from Corel's on clipart or random eps files. They all fail to trim, or intersect simplify. I got this particular file to just about work. When I reversed the path, it trimmed, but one of the wings on the bird vanished. I copied and pasted it directly into Illustrator and it trimmed perfectly in a 10th of a second.
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