At home I have CorelDRAW 12 and an education version of CorelDRAW X7. I need to have both versions as CorelDRAW-12 is the only version we have at the office and my daughter is learning Corel with X7.
This creates a problem whenever I double-click an image in Corel-12 at home. It should open in PhotoPAINT 12 but it opens in PhotoPAINT X7. Is there any way to change this behavior? I need to open an image from CorelDRAW-12 in PhotoPAINT-12 and similarly for X7.
I would appreciate a workaround (no problem with system level editing or registry tweaks if necessary). I am using Windows 7 Professional on my home desktop.
Thank you in advance for a working solution.
Amit
This is normal behaviour. Windows can only have one default editor for CPT files and that is what the edit bitmap uses. The CPT editor will usually be whichever version of CorelDraw was installed or repaired last.
It is possible to change the CPT default manually, but you cannot set a default setting to two different values at the same time. To change the default in windows 7:
This will now be the new default for CPT editing. But there is also a special case, which may be easier to use than constantly changing the default.
If photopaint is already open, the open version will be used in place of the default. So, the easiest way to make v12 bitmap edits open in v12 photopaint is to open v12 photopaint at the same time as CorelDraw, and make sure it is the only version of photopaint that is open.
Thanks harryLondon for the quick reply.
I had already tried the first method and had initially changed the default CPT editor to PhotoPAINT-12 but it ended up opening PhotoPAINT-12 for inline editing even from CorelDRAW X7. I had to change it back since I use that desktop mainly for tutoring my daughter on X7.
But the second method sounds promising and I will happily try it next time I'm working. It makes sense and should work.
Thank you for your help.
That method certainly works with newer versions, and as it is windows that is choosing which program to launch, I can't think why it might not work for version 12 -- but I don't currently have anything older than X4 to test with. When you right click on a CPT file, is version 12 one of the possible choices in the "open with..." list ? And does version 12 open if you select it (without making it the default) ?