Hello to all,
I would really appreciate any help with this issue.I'm using Coreldraw X3,operating system, Windows XP Professional version 2002, 1GB of RAM,free space of 4.56GB on C drive, 34.8GB on backup drive,display adapter Radeon X300,HP compaq dc7600 convertibleI'm having a lot of difficulties opening a series of files. I had been working on a laptop for a few months and upon returning to the office I tansfered the files to my desktop to complete thr final revisions. I worked on my desktop for 3wks without no problems and then one day I went to open the files and recieved this message on all of them:"Error reading a bitmap in file"I have since tried numerous methods with no success. Do you have any suggestions. I don't particularly want to redo 100 hours of revisions again! I'd GREATLY appriceate your help!!!!
You might want to contact Corel support because this has to be a known bug in X3. Most likely you have monochrome bitmaps or grayscale in these files. We too have had this happen. Perhaps you could attach one of the "bad" files and I'll see if it will open in X4. Hopefully someone on this forum has some other solution than having to buy X4. Curiously, if we could get the file to open, we could save it back to 12 and use Corel12 with no problem but by now I would think Corel support would have some answers since this is a long-standing issue.
I have contacted Corel but have yet to recieve a response. I hope they will have an answer on Monday. The bitmaps in these files are all CKYK photos that have been edited using Corel Photo-Paint. I've used the same method for a couple of years using X3 and never had this problem. Of course things like this happen when your already facing a deadline crunch.Since I'm a nexbie to this forum could you tell me how to attach a file?
Thanks
I DISCOVERED THE PROBLEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!! COREL - I HOPE YOU ARE READING THIS!!!!!!!!!
UNFORTUNATELY UP TO THIS POINT, THERE IS NO WAY TO RECOVER THE FILE - BUT, I SEEMED TO HAVE DISCOVERED WHAT IS CAUSING THE PROBLEM!!!!!!
BY KNOWING WHAT'S CAUSING THE PROBLEM, YOU CAN PREVENT IT FROM HAPPENING IN THE FUTURE - UNTIL THE "BUG" IS FIXED!!!!!!
FIRST OF ALL, IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH FILE SIZE - AS I HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH SINGLE FILES AS LARGE AS 3 GIGS!!!
THE CORRUPTION IS OCCURRING WHEN YOU SAVE THE FILE!!!!!
WHEN YOU GO TO SAVE YOUR FILE, CLICK "ADVANCED" AT THE BOTTOM. NEXT GO TO THE "FILE OPTIMIZATION" SECTION...MAKE SURE BITMAP AND OBJECT COMPRESSION IS NOT CHECKED!!!!
NOTE: THERE IS A BUG OR FLAW CAUSING ONE OR BOTH OF THESE OPTIONS TO AUTOMATICALLY BECOME CHECKED - EVEN IF IT WAS SAVED PROPERLY ONE TIME, IT WILL AUTOMATICALLY REVERT AND CHECK ONE OR BOTH BOXES FOR COMPRESSION! MAKE SURE EACH AND EVERY TIME YOU SAVE YOUR PROJECT - BOTH BOXES ARE NOT CHECKED!!!
O.K. COREL FIX THIS BUG!!!!!!! IT ALSO DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE RELATED TO ANY SPECIFIC WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM!!!!!!! (THAT I HAVE NOTICED)
*SORRY TO SAY, IF YOUR FILE WAS SAVED INCORRECTLY, IT IS ALMOST CERTAINLY LOST!!!
THIS PERTAINS TO FILES THAT HAVE BITMAPPED IMAGES SUCH AS PHOTOGRAPHS OR SPECIAL EFFECTS ON TEXT SUCH AS DROP-SHADOWS, ETC.
I am having the same problem but with an extra additional twist.
First error message I get is this one:
If I click ANY of the options I get this message:
No option but to click OK which produces a popup that says Corel Draw will close now. My document is a catalogue and is rather large so I don't want to automatically attach it here.
Has there been any response from Corel on this one? I really don't want to have to recreate this thing!
THanks for your help, Keachybean
The most common reason for this message is when somebody copy/paste an image from other program instead use the "file/import" command
and the simplest way to solve is to open with a newest version.
I may have copy and pasted from a corel file into the corel document I was working on, but wouldn't have done so from any other program.
I downloaded X6 trial to try and open it in there and I got the same problem. However, that caused a whole new problem of having all of my thumbnails disappear and despite uninstalling and reinstalling the Windows Shell extension I couldn't get them back. I ended up having to do a system restore. I need to recover this file badly so any ideas will help.
Keachybean