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!
Great to hear Scott.
Definitely the 'Edit Bitmap' button is enabled based not only on the current selection but on also being able to trace a path through the registry to your CPT editor. I would agree that the problem was likely there.
Hi all, I had exactly the same issue and this suggestion resolved it. Checked the registry as described by Andrew the COREL guy and found the Image.17 was missing. Open regedit. Find file as described. Right click the word 'Default' and choose modify. Change .15 to .17 and OK.
Not that I believe end users should be "digging around in the registry" to fix installation problems.
However, adding to this issue since my situation is similar where "edit bitmap is greyed out even though I just converted a vector to a bitmap within draw x7.
I looked into the registry settings and .cpt is fine and registered to ...Image.17. However when I try to look at CorelPHOTOPAINT.Image.17 I get an access denied message:
I'm guessing, based on this thread, that this is the cause of the problem.
My steps to reproduce:
So was wondering if this a result of x7 being a trial version?
... to follow up...
this is unbelievably crazy... the x7 uninstall failed/crashed and I'm now having to go through every single x7 registry setting, performing multiple permissions/ownership changes because I'm "locked out" of all of them.
Thanks Corel for completely wasting my entire afternoon (at least) I'll see if i can get it working again tomorrow.
Not happy about this!
I don't think it is a trial version problem. Usually, the trial version will behave exactly like the permanent version, until the trial expires.
But your mention of purchasing department implies a company installation of some sort, so perhaps your IT department has placed some sort of access restriction on either the registry or photopaint.