At last, we now can set the color/contrast of the desktop and not be so blinded by the abundance of white.....
Thank you, Corel, for this nice gift.
weird, mine does not show this option after installing Update2.
MikeWe said: Here's the standard disclaimer...edit the registry can have unintended consequences...do so at your own risk... Start regedit.exe You should probably back-up the Registry before going any further. The location is: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Corel\CorelDRAW\17.0\Draw\Application Preferences\WindowScheme Likely you could just do a search in the registry for: PageMatColor The color gray you see in my post above is the number: 14277081 Here's a way you can see the number needed for whatever color you want. There is also a key named WindowBorderColor. Write down or copy the number that is there to a Notepad instance. Have CD open as well. Go to the Global Options section. You can change the title bar color to what you would like the PageMatColor to be. Save the CD Options. Now switch back the regedit. Press F5 to refresh the display (it actually should auto-refresh upon regaining focus). Now double-click the WindowBorderColor key. Copy the number. Cancel. Double-click the PageMatColor key. Paste the number in its value box. Click OK. Now double-click on the WindowBorderColor key. Copy/Paste the former WindowBorderColor value back into the value box that you copied to Notepad. Save. Exit and restart CD. Again, edit the registry at your own risk... Take care, Mike
Here's the standard disclaimer...edit the registry can have unintended consequences...do so at your own risk...
Start regedit.exe
You should probably back-up the Registry before going any further.
The location is:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Corel\CorelDRAW\17.0\Draw\Application Preferences\WindowScheme
Likely you could just do a search in the registry for:
PageMatColor
The color gray you see in my post above is the number: 14277081
Here's a way you can see the number needed for whatever color you want.
There is also a key named WindowBorderColor. Write down or copy the number that is there to a Notepad instance.
Have CD open as well. Go to the Global Options section. You can change the title bar color to what you would like the PageMatColor to be. Save the CD Options.
Now switch back the regedit. Press F5 to refresh the display (it actually should auto-refresh upon regaining focus). Now double-click the WindowBorderColor key. Copy the number. Cancel. Double-click the PageMatColor key. Paste the number in its value box. Click OK.
Now double-click on the WindowBorderColor key. Copy/Paste the former WindowBorderColor value back into the value box that you copied to Notepad.
Save. Exit and restart CD.
Again, edit the registry at your own risk...
Take care, Mike
does not work for me...keeps reseting pagemat to default.
@sign
That seems is could be related to the missing part of the dialog you posted. Did you get that sorted out? If not, try running CD once as an administrator, then exit again. Then restart. If that doesn't do it, you may need to try resetting CD.
The key is not even there until one tries setting it in the Options dialog. So I don't know the effect of creating the key altogether.
Also, you may need to be logged in as an administrator. Dunno. It may not be enough to run regedit.exe with the elevated prompt it requires.
MikeWe said:What I do know is I hope I end up retired before the whole industry is subscription only.
agree
MikeWe said:The subscription model is of only real value to the companies, not the consumers.
It's a horrible deal for all, I would never use it. You are putting your entire business and work product in third party hands, that makes no business sense at all. Read the fine print, you are getting the royal you know what.
Trust me...if the premium subscription is even modestly successful, I can see Corel moving to an Adobe-type subscription in the future. It does stabilize cash-flow I suspect...in adobe's case, it is down. But they make most their money elsewhere and not on consumer software, so I doubt it matters to them.
The way this was handled (the white desktop) was handled and implemented, I am hoping Corel does the right thing here. There are only a few possibilities. One, someone messed up and it became a subscription feature. Two, it was planned from the get-go. Three, they needed to have more "things" to justify subscription and some boneheaded person made this decision. And there are more possibilities I suppose.
With the way it is implemented, I am hoping for #1. Likely it was #3. I just cannot believe they would take something away and add it back later as a premie feature...