Annoyance

This is not new with X7. The behavior was similar in X5 and X3

but I still don't know if it is deliberate or some sort of artifact.

I'm a photographer so most of what I do in Coreldraw is to incorporate

my images into various graphic designs, e.g. greeting cards, bookmarks,

scrapbook pages, ...

In my workflow I use a photo browser and Photoshop as my primary

bitmap editor. Small images I can copy from Photoshop and paste

into Coreldraw but if an image exceeds 4x5 or so It won't paste.

I can save it, do an image copy from my photo browser and paste

the image successfully into Careldraw but not not directly from

Photoshop. Is this a deliberate attempt by Corel to discourage use

of Photoshop? Just curious.....

  • Can you define what you mean by 4x5. Is there are pixel size that creates the problem or a physical image size. Is that in or cm?

    I just copied (Ctrl-A, Ctrl-c) a 29cm x 45cm 20Mpx, 68Mb (uncompressed) jpg photo from CS5 into Draw no problem.

    Does your image contain layers?, or adjustment/fill layers or smart objects?

    • 4" x 5" x 300 dpi. I've not done a careful study to find where
      the cut off is. 3" square at 300 dpi works find. Get up around 5" x 7" x 300dpi
      and it fails. It does fail differently in X7. In X5 it appeared to paste correctly
      but if I tried to position it or resize it or any other operation I got an "out
      of memory" error. In X7 I get a little icon but no image.

      Now I've not tried doing the selection with the keystrokes as you did.
      I'll try that and see if it changes the behavior.
      • Tried a partial copy and paste using the marquee tool in CS5. Worked OK
        Tried same with Edit>Copy and paste into Draw, worked fine.

        However, in either case I cannot then move the image with the mouse, only the nudge keys, the transformation docker, or the property bar. The Object Manager now shows OLE Image Objects x 4 even after deleting the image (I pasted 4 times so thats why theres 4) and the docker is misbehaving badly, showing object that are not there. Attempts to delete objects fail, attempts to delete layer fail.

        Serious problem.
        • Reported to Corel. Hope it'll get fixed in time of U4
          • Yep, like I said it appears to work but you can't manipulate the result.
            If you save it, even as a 16bit .PSD, my photo browser will copy it and
            paste it into Coreldraw perfectly but I need that intermediate save.
            Simply copying out of Photoshop and pasting into Coreldraw doesn't
            work. This is not new. It's been that way for probably 20 years that
            I know of and I'm not sure but what it's deliberate.
            • Yes, but the most important thing is to ask WHY it doesn't work. It's not about CorelDRAW/Photoshop, since both are good friends. It's not a policy of both companies. When you "copy" you're using the Windows Clipboard. That's the simple explanation. Windows Clipboard is limited on size so it doesn't allows big files.The Clipboard sometimes change the internal file format for allows more size or complex files (ie if it's a vector it was stored as WMF or EMF). That explain why the iamge browser can do the job but a more powerful software can't do it.
              btw the best advice is: never copy/paste images. the result when you copy/past an image from Photoshop is a kind of object called OLE (object linking and embeeding). That means that sometimes there's a hidden link to the original file location, and if the file is moved or the temporary link is broken, the CorelDRAW file can't display the image... or evan can't open the file. Also, the image quality is not the best when you copy/paste (due the internal convertion on the Clipboardfor copy and for paste)
              • That's probably right although if ACDSee doesn't use the Widows clipboard
                mechanism how does it do a copy image which then pastes into Coreldraw?
                It's still a copy/paste operation.
            • Ho Tomb202,
              I use PS for image editing and draw for layouts. I never do what you say. I always prep my image in PS to be what I want and save. Then import into Draw. Works great. Quality and not speed. What you say is not a good idea. You also risk bringing formatting code along.