I have used Coreldraw 7 for many years with very few problems. Having recently switched fro Windows XP to Windows 7, I purchased Coreldraw X7 (Home & Student) and am rather disappointed by some of the problems I am encountering. In the old program I could create a large rectangle that almost filled the page, and completely fill it with a texture such as "Airbrush" or "Neon Slice" with the bitmap resolution and maximum size set to (for example) 120 and 257 respectively. If I do the same thing in X7 I end up with several "tiles" in the fill pattern, and changing the resolution and/or tile width makes no difference. Is this a bug, or a limitation, or am I doing something wrong? To add to the mystery, if I create a large texture-filled rectangle using my old Coreldraw 7, save the file, and then open it in X7, it is perfectly OK. It's only when I try to create the same thing from scratch in X7 that the problem occurs.
Hi Stefan- thanks for your responses
OK Here is what I did step by step:-
Start Coreldraw X7, select new document, select landscape orientation
Draw rectangle,
With rectangle selected and object properties open click texture fill, select neon slice (in "samples"), click "edit fill" set bitmap resolution to 120 and maximum tile width to 257. click OK
The result is as shown in Screen 1 (six tiles filling the rectangle)
I then went through an identical procedure on my old Corel 7. I then cut and pasted the resulting rectangle into a new Corel X7 document. The result is as shown in Screen 2.
See also my reply to your other response regarding interactive fill
Steve