I am trying CorelDraw X7 as a trial and am coming from CorelDraw 11. I am switching due to the fact that I cannot get CorelDraw 11 to run on my new Windows 7 64-bit computer. The problem I am having is that graphics I created in CorelDraw 11 and filled with gradients open correctly, but I cannot match the gradient fills I used in 11 when trying it in X7. I open the gradient fill box and click on other gradients but they all have a transparent Corel balloon on them and they will not work. What am I doing wrong? How can I get the preset gradients from CorelDraw 11 into X7?
Jim Holt said:they all have a transparent Corel balloon on them
I'm not sure what you mean by that. Are you able to do a screen capture?
It's also useful if you can upload a CDR file that exhibits the problem, so we can try things out.
It looks like you are trying to use fills from the content exchange. Some of them are for premium subscribers, so they probably aren't going to work on the trial. But it looks like you were previously in the correct place before you went into the content exchange.
I'm guessing that the fountain is not quite correct, but I can't tell what it should be.
Anyway, you double click on one of the fills and it should open the fill editor like this ...
The third icon in the top row (fountain fill) should be selected and is correct. Do not select another, otherwise you will be looking at the wrong types of fill.
Instead, you should be either ...
or you could possibly:
Editing one of the colour steps is not quite as simple as you might expect. You must first single click on the small square to select it for editing, and then open the drop down near the bottom left corner. There you can edit the actual colour in one of many ways. When you have the pattern you want, press OK to save the fill back to the object.