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.
However I doubt they will do anything to fix it.
I doubt it too David.Would be nice to see if someone comes up with an answer to why it happens, and maybe also a better solution.
The only solution that works for me when using envelopes and some/many extrude operations is to use a different application for those operations. Then, if the work needs to be finished off in CD, import it in an acceptable format for the work at hand.
At some point, the management really should ask itself about the metrics of just adding new features to CD at the expense of not enhancing existing features or fixing long-standing issues. I think it is a false metric to push some/most of these things under the rug. Sooner or later the lack of attention to these things will limit sales if it is not happening currently.
Mike
Well, perhaps Dante was thinking of Corel when he wrote Abandon all hope ye who enter here...
I believe I am one of the people that suggested paying only for bug fixes. Still stand by that.
I do feel for you, David. The oddities and bugs in CD rarely affect my work in CD. I simply do not stretch what CD should be capable of out of the box. The few crappy things like extrude and envelopes I just do in something else. But in general, all work I do in a vector editing application like CD ends up in layout software. I rarely do final work in CD with exception of the once or twice a year large format and all the t-shirt stuff I do. Once in a blue moon I have done a complete simple print job in CD, like brochures and fliers. Even so, I prefer to use a layout application to composite those types of jobs. To be fair, that is how I use Illustrator, XDP and DP too.