Zoom to fit Issues

Hello Corel World:

I have several technical illustrations that seem to contain some kind of invisible artifact that forces CorelDraw to think that the boundaries of the drawing are as large or larger than Corel can display.

Saving these files in any other vector format produces the same result. The images are rendered extremely small - although they should actually take up a full sized page. If you hit 'select all' everything is apparently in order, as you can see that the boundaries of the drawings are where they should be, but still there is something invisible and un-selectable that Corel identifies as being too big for the drawing field.

All text artifacts have been converted to curves -

That's all I have in my bag of tricks -

Anybody have any ideas about this?

  • HI.

    Depending on how many files you have I guess, you could select just the needed part and save to a new file using selected only.

    Also check out the object manager docker and see if anything shows up there.

    -John

    • Hello John -

      THANK YOU for your reply. Actually, I just now found the answer - sort of.

      First, to be clear - these files have been drawn to go into a publication as they are, and I do not need components - I need the whole drawings.

      There are 6 of them, and they are certainly not the most dense things I've done. It's very strange. I actually tried converting to raster - and it wanted to make these grayscale file 2.51 GB each (!!!!!)

      Anyway, the workaround to this issue was to "Publish to PDF" and then open the converted PDF files back into CorelDraw. The layering information is lost in this process, but this is a minor thing in relative terms. By the way, prior to discovering this fix, I thought the files might be corrupted and had tried to reconstruct the drawings in new files, that is to say, taking each of the (3) layers over to a new drawing file, copying and pasting each, and saving with a new drawing title. This did not work.

      Anyway, the Corel-to-PDF-to-Corel-to-WMF-to-Publication actually worked, and so I am happy to share this information in case anybody else is in fear of losing many hours of work -

      Just remember, COMPUTERS ARE YOUR FRIEND and "It's NOT a bug... It's a FEATURE"

      Thanks Again,

      Robert

    • Wire frame view is helpful in those situations. When I have something like that switching to wire frame and then zoom to fit often reveals something.

      Another approach is to in zoom to fit screen view marquis select "objects" at the extremities, even if you cannot see them, then delete. Fails, though if the objects are part of another element.

      You could also try the crop tool in X4 -- but that tool can get a little cranky sometimes, bu still worth a shot..

      And, of course perhaps too tedious you could use he object manager to select the objects and see if it something comes to light that way. (select an object or several objects in the manager and zoom to selected.)

      FWIW in CDR X5 (only!!!!) you can create "new from selection."

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      On 10/29/10 8:24 AM, Robert K wrote:
      I have several technical illustrations that seem to contain some kind of invisible artifact

      -- 
      Paul McGee
      St. Albert, Alberta, Canada
      • Yes Sir, and Thank You for your reply  -

        I feel that I should write again, but only to add clarity about the problem.

        Although they are excellent ideas, none of the things you suggested worked - whatever was 'fooling' the software was truly invisible -

        it could not be seem, or unlocked, or in any way 'found' in order to be extracted.

        I would also offer that - even with all layers unlocked and visible, CTRL - A (select all) did no better.

        I had a similar problem earlier related to text artifacts: Sometimes I also use Corel Designer, and it has proved very useful in taking text artifacts (such as stickers or labels) and place them on various isometric planes - these of course port back into 'Draw' very nicely, but sometimes I would arrive at  the same 'fit to screen' issues as mentioned earlier. HOWEVER, it was possible in this case to convert the text to curves and the problem immediately disappeared.

        Again, Thank You very much,

        I appreciate your kindness -

        Robert K.