I am trying to to use the Envelope tool to simulate a placard wrapped around an aircraft strut. ALL objects (Including text) are converted to curves but when I attempt to curve the objects (there are actually only 2 objects, the black and the rectangle behind with a gradient fill applied), some of right angles refuse to curve or even distort. Some will distort but NOT curve. FYI: The object was created from a traced jpg. Why? In order to produce the wrapped-around-a-pole effect (since this option is still NOT available in Draw) I first need to draw the placard and then export it as an image. Then I open it in Photo-Paint and apply the Cylinder effect. I then import that image back into Draw and trace it.
Come on Corel. Have some pride in your work and fix these stupid and perpetual bugs! I truly wish someone, ANYONE from Corel would contact me and explain why they refuse to fix these and other annoying bugs. As I've stated countless times, I'd be thrilled to pay for an "upgrade" that ONLY fixed bugs.
Corel bean counters: Pay the development teams to do the coding CORRECTLY. Corel management: Stand up and say something. You know this stuff is broken and yet you refuse to fix it. Your business is SOFTWARE. Why not make GREAT software?!Corel Devs: I know fixing bugs (especially when they were created by someone else) is not sexy or as much fun and building new features but have some pride in the product you produce.
ross blair said: This isn't a bug Corel just isn't designed to do what you want.
Yes, that's exactly what I said before
ross blair said:They are unwilling or unable to improve the tools and continue to lose market share because of it.
Maybe one of the problem is that they don't are really losing marketplace, Some people has this feeling (same happens along the years) specially if you talk with Mac users, but since sales are growing up, they don't feel there was a problem. If one day sales decline, then surely they worry and try to reverse the situation. I know, they should act now, instead to wait a problem, because if the wait too much it should be too late.
MikeWe said:Ariel, try it with the file. It's buggy, unpredictable.
As I said before, if you create this design using the envelope tool for each object individually it works fine. But if want to apply to an entire image composed by several subpaths, and this doesn't work. I agree, it dould work, but not,. and it's nothing new, or it woeked on previuous versions and no longer works. It was as was designed. Then, it's not a bug. Of course, it should be improved. Same happens on several other things, for example, if you type an "L" ¡, convert to curves and apply a Mesh Fill it wirks, but if you do the same with an "A" it doesn't work. It's not a bug, but it should work. Same happens with this job, it should work also on cobined on complex object. Moreover, we need a real 3D envelope effect
That's flawed logic.
Using that same logic then the fountain fill color picker is correct in picking CYMK colors when your drawing is in RGB. After all it picked a "color" and because it did not behave as you expected doesn't mean it's a bug. After all, CYMK and RGB are are both color values. Or in simpler terms: I pick red, Corel displays blue. I say it's broken but you say "Just because it didn't pick the color you chose doesn't mean it's a bug. It still picked a color therefore it's not a bug."Also at who point do I need to separate each object? What if the letters M, N and W (that were converted to curves) didn't curve correctly? Do I then need to curve all other converted letters separately and then curve just the M,N and Ws?