This began after several crashes of Draw while I was trying to work with a very complex EPS file. It was actually beyond the capability of Draw and Draw told me so with several crashes. No other problems manifested themselves and I finally solved the problem using Adobe AI.Working with Draw again I noticed that when I selected a bitmap I had in my project the menu bar did not offer "Edit Bitmap" any more, just "Trace Bitmap". I thought at first that perhaps the Bitmap I had chosen was not a "real" bitmap, merely an "object" and that's why it wasn't registering. But since then (two days) I have not been able to shift over to Corel PP with "edit Bitmap" with any bitmap at all. I have to copy everything back and forth to accomplish that.Any ideas? Did I shake something loose when it crashed? Should I re-install the whole d**ned thing? Uuunnnghhh! And if I do, how exactly do I save the desktop arrangements and set-up that I have? I mean menu bars and so forth. That's such a pain to do over and at least this time it occurred to me BEFORE I uninstalled.
Hoping for help from you guys, thank you in advance.
Oh yes. Win 10 Home. With Corel Draw Suite x8 Home & Student Build 18.1.0.690
Disclosure: I don't know all of the differences between the full version of CorelDRAW and the Home & Student version.
If I wanted some chance of saving / restoring all or part of my workspace, then I would start by making sure that I had a safe copy of that workspace. Does the Home & Student version have that capability?
Some things can be remedied by using Uninstall/Change to start the Setup, then performing a "Repair".
Eskimo
Good Morning! Thanks for taking the time. In response to your first remark about the difference between Full Version and Home and Student version, I cannot resist answering with "About 500 Euros."But, to get to the point:In my Options "Workspace" is not in the list, so apparently the ability to save the Workspace is one of the differences. So I guess I'll have to do it all over again.I strongly suspect that the missing "edit Bitmap" is not a question of a changed setting, and that the only solution is trying the "repair" option with the original disc. If that doesn't work I'll just have to reinstall. I'll try first "over" the old one, but probably will have to uninstall and install new. Must first back up all "user content" like patterns and such. Also VERY carefully do the uninstall. Last time (uninstalling a Corel H&S x7) I uninstalled my Font Navigator as well and went through a very stressed few hours finding it again on an older X5 CD and then locating the serial number. Whew! And BTW, I think that is another difference, the Corel Font Manager does not seem to be in the installation of X8 H&S.I'll post when I'm done. And thank you for the advice.
Well played with the "About 500 Euros" comment!
I think that the "Edit Bitmap" problem can have something to do with file associations, so it can also be affected by installing a different version of CDGS (where the install can set file associations). So, you may get some advice here related to setting file associations in CDGS and/or Windows. I have certainly read about other users struggling with the same symptoms!
I have several versions of CorelDRAW installed, and personally had one instance where a "Repair" of X8 sorted out a "Edit Bitmap is grayed out in CorelDRAW" problem for me.
Good luck!
Hello again. I was able to find several discussions of this problem using the "greyed out" phrase and there was considerable playing around with some registry settings and default apps. A look into this solution did not help, as Corel PP x8 was already default for .cpt, and the registry discussion didn't match up to my settings because they were talking about Win 7 and not win 10. Anyway, did the "repair" installation from the CD and voila. . .! Works again! The best advice, and I thank you for it.
That's great!
Is your workspace customization still in place after doing that?