I upgraded to Corel X5 from x3 a month ago... and is anyone else experiencing the following problems and found a resolution?
• when to a scale of a group of objects and bitmaps, it seriously distorts the object and is unrecoverable. can only not save the file, reopen & backsave to x3. Get on another computer with Corel X3 and open the file, do the scale with no problems, save. Then reopen on original computer in Corel X5 and continue to use.
• when a object is placed off the page onto the rest of the work space it gets inadvertently transferred to Desktop layer as soon as you switch to another page or save the drawing. This happens even if the Desktop layer is locked. You then have to unlock the layer and move the object back into the page before you can move it to another layer.
Any suggestions on resolution would help
Anthony Garcia
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Anthony Garcia said: • when to a scale of a group of objects and bitmaps, it seriously distorts the object and is unrecoverable. can only not save the file, reopen & backsave to x3. Get on another computer with Corel X3 and open the file, do the scale with no problems, save. Then reopen on original computer in Corel X5 and continue to use.
Sorry I am two years late to the dance, but was this part of the question ever answered? I am having the same issue and I am about to pull the few remaining hairs I have out. A google search brought me to this thread.
I have discovered that if I select the grouped objects, that I can recover by clearing transformations, but not by using the back function.
What a odd thing.
Any help would be appreciated
MikeK said:All of the outlines have been removed.
Thanks everyone.
Nothing is working. I honestly think the issue had something to do with the way I shaped the objects that are distorting.
Only a few of the objects distort, not the entire image. I can separate the objects and scale them individually and only a few of them will react in this bizarre manner.
Like Mek said; Upload the CDR for us to check.
Sorry, I do not see an option to attach any files. What am I missing?
Mike
While writing a reply, click the Options tab, File attachments, Add/Update button.There's a size limitation at 256kB, so you may have to strip it down before saving the file. Make sure the color profile isn't embedded for example, and remove unnecessary objects and effects.
Sorry, I have no "options" tab.
This is my posting window....
Hi Mike.
Don't use the quick reply. Use the grey reply button.
~John
Hopefully this will work.
Thanks everyone. What a great place!
Had a quick look at your file, and there's definitely something fishy going on. Some objects can't be properly scaled, and if you drag them around they have no visible ghost image while dragging.You said it was originally an EPS, right? That makes sense since I'm sure I've seen and heard of similar things with imported objects before.
One workaround, which may be more or less complicated depending on the number of objects, is to ungroup all and then weld (Arrange > Shaping > Weld) each object to itself, one at a time. This will correct the faultiness and they will then appear and act as normal vector objects.Another quicker way that may work, is to use Simplify (Arrange > Shaping > Simplify, but ungroup all first). This will also recreate the objects but this time they will also be trimmed (and consequently "destroyed") to fit edge to edge.A third alternative that worked fine here, was to Publish to PDF and then reimport again. This seemed to correct them as well.
And finally, a fourth option: Upgrade to Draw X6. It opens and handles at least this particular file without any problem.