My post Why does Corel Draw Graphics Suite X5 feel more like beta software? explains everything im having an issue with X5. In an effort to log the issues with this software, Im asking that if your an X5 User and are having file corruption, crashes, freezes and other such fun stuff happening to you killing your time and money while in Draw or Photopaint, please post it here.
In order to keep it all clean and easy for someone at Corel to follow, please only list issues for X5 and not turn it into a discussion out of topic.
Please, there is no need to try to defend Corel here as Iv used Corel since version 4 (not X4), so thats a long time using it.
Hello,
I have got some problem with Corel Draw X5 Versions.When i type "Divehi", "Farsi", "Arabic", "Hebrew" using the windows default language(using language bar) with fonts it seems to be going left to right, but in x5 if i write on a text box it seems to be okay. but normally we cant write, because "Divehi", "Farsi", "Arabic", "Hebrew" these languages are written from right to left.
Maybe there is a Unicode Barrier in x5 that has to braked so that languages like yours and mine will be typed on CorelDraw. i use "fasyha thaana word processor" application named "Friend" wich enables language to be written smoothly in earlier versions but this aplication is not compatible with x5.
in Draw:
I was making a pretty basic diagram, used the star tool... I changed the colour of the fill and it crashed.
The message box just says "CorelDRAW(R) has stopped working Windows is checking for a solution to the problem..."
... no error code or anything (that may have been helpful), just about an hour of work gone.
The colour pickers are still not fixed in Draw or PP... eg. the 3D cube pickers still don't allow you to drag your mouse around to pick a colour, and the selection can go outside the cube colour area on the right side.
igor said:every time I tried to import a RAW file in 48 bit mode (which is used by default) I experienced PHOTO-PAINT hangs and finally crash after the file was imported and I started to edit it.
Layer titles are cut off way too soon. For example, "menu s2" is cut off and there's tons of space left for the rest of the "2".
very minor: when you click a layer title to change it, it moves over left and the eye, print, and pencil icons disappear (but come back after the renaming... it would be more solid if the renaming happened in place. The main reason to fix it is if you click and then click to set where you want to type, the title has moved over and then you're back to not-renaming it mode. Again, this is a very tiny thing, but tiny things like this make the program feel a bit clunky/unpollished.
oops.
I'm not sure how this happens... just pasted something small into page 2 of a Draw document.
work on it a bit, move it to page 1.
did some more work
now there's 2 groups with 0 things in them. I wasn't even working with groups. Where'd the groups come from?... and why are there 0 things in them?
When you open an illustrator file by double clicking the AI file... the file name should be preserved when it gets openned... not changed to "Untitled-1"
This is annoying because if I want to quickly export to a jpg or whatever, but I want the name the same, you have to type it in... which isn't a big deal unless the file name is long or complicated.
I forgot to mention that this works properly with psd files, but not with ai files.
Also, if you go right-click anywhere (eg. desktop), make a new CPT file (for example)... then NAME it... then double click it to open in PP... you're taken to the make a new file dialog - which makes sense since the file doesn't know how big it should be HOWEVER, it should autofill in the name since you already specified it before you double clicked the file. Right?
some ai files can't be exported to jpg... the preview image is blank and even if you press OK, the resulting file is bunk.
Looking into it a bit... some of the layers that get imported have a group of a group of 1 objects... and a whole bunch of these doubly nested groups are created for some reason... even though there's just a single thing in them. I think the AI file came from CS4.
I tried saving as cdr and then exporting, but same problem... it won't do it.
In Draw, when you lay down a guideline, the mouse cursor is a double arrow over it (great), but in PP it's a pointing hand (not intuitive). The double arrow is far more sensical because it gives the idea you can move it... and having the same icons etc between both programs makes more sense.
... same kinda thing for the other icons... and the terminology... eg. "layers" vs. "objects"... aren't they the same? Isn't layers a better name (more accepted?). Objects is kind of vague IMO but I probalby have the terms messed up. Change it all to layers in help and in both programs. Corel doesn't have to distinguish itself from Photoshop in this regard.
In Draw, when you're working with a bitmap, and you're trying to get it precisely angled and resized etc... and then you notice it needs a bit of touch up... so you go Edit Bitmap... then it goes into PP (cool)... then you save the change to go back into Draw... BUT the image is rotated back to 0 degrees. I think the scaling is preserved, but it would be SO nice to have the angle preserved too. After spending time getting it just right, it's really painful knowing that your work will be undone just for the sake of a little change to the bitmap!
Davoid said:the image is rotated back to 0 degrees