I recently upgraded from X6 to X7. I cannot get the edit bitmap feature to work, it is grayed out. I had this same problem when upgrading from X5 to X6. That problem was rectified by a re-install and reboot. After perusing the forum, I have tried, to no avail the following:
1.) Did a complete uninstall of all Corel products. Ran CCleaner to clean up registry entries. Did a complete reinstall. Rebooted. Did not fix.
2.) Went into both Corel Photo-Paint and CorelDraw and reset the "Associate" file extensions under Tools/Options. Made sure that CPT was selected in Corel Photo-Paint. Double checked the association in Windows explorer. Did not fix.
3.) Reset my workspaces (F8) command during start-up. Did not fix.
4.) Removed my workspaces under C:\Users\sccarter.DDS\AppData\Roaming\Corel\CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X7\Draw\Workspace. Restarted CorelDraw. Did not fix.
5.) Uninstalled Corel Windows Shell. Reinstalled Corel under custom options and installed the shell. Did not fix.
6.) Waved my magic wand, did a chant, said a prayer. Did not fix.
I am running Windows 7, 64 bit version of x7.
If any other users have experienced this same problem and was able to fix it, please forward the magic potion to me... it would be much appreciated!
Hello Scott: I know you said you tried the F8 W/CorelDRAW but did you try it with PP?
George
Scott, this sounds like a registry issue.
Can you look up a few of these values in the Registry Editor (regedit.exe) ?
1) what is the value of this key?
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.CPT
(Should be "CorelPHOTOPAINT.Image.17")
2) Assuming 1 was correct, can you look up this key:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CorelPHOTOPAINT.Image.17\CLSID
Should be a long guid here,
{a43cbf70-0ffa-3a89-42f9-11edfed78598}
3) If everything is ok so far, then have a look here:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{a43cbf70-0ffa-3a89-42f9-11edfed78598}
You should see a LocalServer32 key with the value pointing to your PhotoPaint executable.
Let me know if you find any issues there.
Thanks,
Andrew
Hello Andrew,
Thank you for the advice. Unfortunately I threw in the towel, reformatted my hard drive, and after I install the 1,500+ Windows updates, I am going to revert back to version X6.
It probably was a registry entry issue, which was my assumption all along.
At least these posts are archived, so if users have similar issues, this would be a good reference.
This was the first response I have received ,(or located via searching the internet groups), that mentions checking specific registry entries.
Scott
Sorry to hear that Scott.
If you ever encounter problems in this area please post or feel free to message me directly.
Thanks.
Hello Andrew and the team responding to my issues with X7.
So I installed X6 (64 bit), after formatting my hard drive, installing Windows 7, etc. Bitmap editor worked great.
I then installed the 64 bit version of X7, and the editor now works in that application as well.
My guess is that there were registry entry problems because I had so many prior versions of Corel installed (and uninstalled) on this system.
Furthermore, I think it may have been a conflict between the 32 bit version of X5 registry entries and the 64 bit version of Corel entries (not sure, but that is my guess).
Nevertheless, the application is working now, and all of the additional issues I had with X7, seemed to be rectified.
I appreciate everyone who took the time out of their day to assist me with my problem.
Now back to designing!!!
Regards,