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
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.