The whole approach of the programming team seems aimed at age around 11 years. Draw is a complex and sophisticated suite and the programmers should remember that the users are likewise, experienced and sophisticated; simply they are not programmers. The new template system is a complete nightmare to manage. How the hell does one get rid of a large selection of not wanted templates from "My Templates" It's wonderful how there are NO instructions in what must be the most often used facility. Come on Corel you can do it a LOT better. You are not selling this program to kindergartens, kids can't afford it. You are selling to professionals who have used it for years and years. Do you understand that ?
I would also like to know how the Template dialog in Draw X4 is supposed to work. The state of it now just leaves me puzzled. Cansomeone please explain? And why don't my own templates appear there even if I have used the "Open other" button. Isn't this dialog supposed to keep track of the templates on the system?
Hello Lars,
a few comments from my perspective. The New from Template dialog box was developed to be able to display both the templates that come with CorelDRAW as well as the files you create (.CDT wherever you save them in your "My Documents" folder).And it is the second part that was the most important. Because we didn't want to force a user to save his templates in a specific folder, we wanted it to search for .CDT files wherever they are.
Instead of re-inventing the wheel, we decided to leverage what comes with the operating system, e.g. we are using the search engine built-in Windows and display the results in that window. On Windows Vista (and Win7 going forward), because is comes with a fast desktop search engine, the results are displayed very quickly. On Windows XP, the normal indexing / search engine is a lot slower, but if you install the "Windows Desktop Search" app (free download from Microsoft.com), you will get the same experience as Windows Vista.
Hope this helps clarify a little.
Gérard
I think Gerarad replied here that you need to let Windows index your hard drive for .cdt files. Then they will appear in the New From Template dialog. I can't confirm this myself since I am on Win XP still.
I think this New From Template dialog is a drag. It should at least remember your last folder where you accessed a template, but it doesn't.
Ok.. here is where we stand with this..
Today, I went over to my friend's house to install this X4 suite on her Windows 7 notebook.. and guess what? NO templates either! I kinda suspect that since I can see some (and very few at that) templates on my Vista machine, this has to be Windows 7 related.
Oh and yeah - I spent 5 or 6 hours last night rebulding the Windows search index, and guess what? Made absolutely no difference.
On a sort of related topic.. since rebuildng the windows search index, I can no longer find ANY of the templates I had before, nor can I find the templates folder that corel had put them into after installation. Either the indexing really screwed up the search function, or what few templates I had are now gone along with their parent folder. Can someone please tell me the path this folder was supposed to be in?
Not that I really care that much anymore, but it is now a matter of principle.
Lastly Foster, please tell me a bit about Scrapbook.. I can find no reference to it in the Corel Help. Thanks.
(btw.. please have a little patience with me.. I used to use CorelDraw many years ago, and am just coming back to it - I have forgotten a lot, and it has changed a lot)
Hi Foster.
I never tried romCat. How fast is it with 10,000 plus files when switching from directory to directory.
I use the scrap book for 1 commonly used folder. I set it to the folder I get things from most and use it as a quick grab, so to speak. It's nice cause it's always there with the same folder open and shows small thumbs.
-John
FosterCoburn said: John, The CorelDRAW clip art catalog is somewhere around 10,000 files. If I type a search term in ROMCat, the results are just there. It is too quick to do a timing. You don't have to limit it to a "folder" as it is catalog based. You create a catalog of whatever you want and it searches. Pre-built catalogs are supplied for the clip art collections of CorelDRAW 5 (yes, just 5) and higher. All I can suggest to anyone is that you give it a try and see if it works for you. It is a free download at http://www.unleash.com/articles/romcat/
Hi.
Thanks. I've been using thumbs plus for many years. I have to type in sql statements to search for files since it's all db related. I think I glanced at the rom cat many years ago when I had cdr9. Not sure why it didn't stick. I'm gonna give it a try again and see how it goes, since I notice you recommend it alot.
<RunFlaCruiser> wrote in message news:87272@coreldraw.com... I'm gonna give it a try again and see how it goes, since I notice you recommend it alot.
I'm gonna give it a try again and see how it goes, since I notice you recommend it alot.