I tried opening up a project in my CorelDraw x7 and it is loading very slow! I JUST bought a custom build computer with 16GB and fast processor, so it should not be doing this. I tried opening up the same project in illustrator and it loads just fine.
When I try and open in Corel, it loads every object and layer of object one at a time. When I try to move an object it loads everything on the screen one at a time again.
It would be very difficult to work on anything with this issue. Any ideas what is causing this? I'm thinking its a corel issue since it opens up fast in illustrator.
Do be aware not all elements in the original are spot colors.
Use the add colors from document command (or whatever it is called) down at the document swatches to the left of them. There are a lot and not all of them are used.
I would add only the spot colors needed to the imported PDF. Then use find replace on each of the rgb objects (select same fill) and with all if one color selected, choose the appropriate pantone swatch. Then see if it gets slow again.
Judy said: .... Soooo couple of questions 1. How can I fix it where corel can handle this many pantone colors? 2. How can I see how many pantone colors the document has? 3. How many pantone colors can corel typically handle?
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Soooo couple of questions
1. How can I fix it where corel can handle this many pantone colors?
2. How can I see how many pantone colors the document has?
3. How many pantone colors can corel typically handle?
You need not fix it. Corel needs to do that.
Your document has only 24 colors. Its down in the document color palette. If not seen, reset the document palette (located at the bottom of the screen by default) and it will pick the colors from the document. I had to count the swatches though.
CorelDRAW should be able to handle PANTONE or any other color palette just as well as it handles RGB or CMYK. Your document proves that it does not.
This is an issue that should be reported to Corel... and hopefully, they will fix it...when??... your guess is as good as mine! It would be wise to note, that a ton of bugs that users have reported since the release of X7 have yet to be fixed.... even after 2 updates have been released.
CorelDRAW is just a tool, YOU, are the artist. If you have invested time and effort to become proficient with the use of other software tools that do the same job, you will never be handicapped, by broken software. It is never too late to learn :)
P.S: There is no problem with your computer! If ALL your other software works perfectly well and just one (CorelDRAW) freezes, crashes, and/or does anything other than work properly, the problem is the software, in this case, CorelDRAW and NOT your computer.
No amount of cleaning up temp files, deleting fonts, checking your RAM, changing your video card or upgrading your system is going to help. Basic common sense...if you have 10 programs installed on your computer and did not have any problems until you installed the 11th software, the problem is the 11th software, NOT your computer!. This is the reason Windows has a rollback feature which allows you to restore the computer to it last working state, that is, if you have made a backup of the system prior to installing the software that created the issue.
suku,
There is something goofy about the sample file. I rebuilt it using all the Pantone colors and it was fine.
I opened some of the files I prep for a screen printing business in X7. All Pantones with the exception of the 100% K plate. One file had a version with 13 colors and it opened fine. So did some that were originally done in X4 that I rebuilt.
That is not to say there are not issues in X7 (and X6, and ...). There are. But that file is goofy.
Mike
Hello Mike,
I was thinking of doing exactly the same thing to figure out what the issue really was,, but hard pressed at the moment for time. All I tried was to do a quick find and replace the color palette with CMYK and the file worked perfectly fine. SO based on your posts and what I noticed, I just concluded that it was the PANTONE palette that wasn't being handled correctly by DRAW. I've had such goofy stuff happen every once in a while in the past, but chose to ignore it and find other solutions.
I still think the file needs to be investigated by Corel. The file produced the same issues on all our computers, so Corel should have no problem seeing the issue the way Judy had it occur on her system.
So lets hope and keep our fingers crossed :)
Suku
SUKU...
Yea, I've opened up a support case.. (paid support, unfortunately) because regular support was not able to help. I mentioned before, this is not isolated to one file i've noticed that this is happening to all my files that have pantones in them.
I guess if they can't help me by tomorrow, then I will have to uninstall and go back to X5. Unfortunally I do now know Illustrator enough to be able to work on it. I will probably slowly start training on it to get familiar. I work full time from home and currently rely on Corel FULLY to be able to run my freelance jobs.
I've missed three days of work now trying to figure out why I can't work in a simple corel document. At least now I guess I know it's a pantone issue.. Just the real question is how to get around that and get back to work effectively.