I am running Vista and have an i7 chip with 3 gigs of ram and a 1 gig video cars...Games fast (according to my Kids) I try and use crel x3 and it is hitchy and slow to react. I have already tried the patch sugested by corel and it did nothing!
I built this computer because I wanted fast.....I can still think faster than corel reacts!
Help me figure this out and you will be my new hero!
Oh my!
I think you need to find a different bunch of "graphic buddies", Victor!!!
Michael gave you good FN instructions and Ariel gave you a good list of other areas to check out.
Let us know (your new graphic buddies) how you're doing.
KuttyJoe said:Actually, it's not the computer that has a problem with fonts, it's Draw and Paint and Font Navigator.
It's not a CorelDRAW or FontNagigator problem, it's a Windows issue. Illustrator, QuarkXPress, PageMaker, InDesign and other are similar problems. Most people uses CorelDRAW with more than 3.000 fonts installed, and most people have problems with Quark, Indesign or Illustrator with "only" 800 font. The difference is Windows and its performance
Well, I suppose that's your own experience. I've worked with all of those programs for many years and have never had any sort of font problem. Windows performance is good with all the Adobe stuff and Quark Express while Corel will bring the PC to it's knees if you try to preview a distressed font inside Corel Draw. Disable this option in Draw's preferences and Draw performs normally again. No point in imagining this to be a Windows problem. If it were, we would see the same thing happening when we try to preview a distressed font in any application. So far only Draw and Paint have this problem. Might as well call it like we see it. It's absolutely a Corel problem. One that has gotten worse with each version of Draw.
KuttyJoe said: I've worked with all of those programs for many years and have never had any sort of font problem. Windows performance is good with all the Adobe stuff and Quark Express while Corel will bring the PC to it's knees if you try to preview a distressed font inside Corel Draw.
KuttyJoe, I'm glad you are one CorelDRAW.com members.
It seems CorelDRAW chokes with complex drawings, e.g. with complex chalk brushes, not just distressed fonts. Adobe Illustrator shows high performance and stability with complex drawings.
(Maybe it is a Windows problem, Adobe and Quark know how to deal with it, but Corel doesn't)
Ahmad Ajlouny said: It seems CorelDRAW chokes with complex drawings, e.g. with complex chalk brushes, not just distressed fonts. Adobe Illustrator shows high performance and stability with complex drawings. (Maybe it is a Windows problem, Adobe and Quark know how to deal with it, but Corel doesn't)
That's certainly possible. If you try to view the same fonts directly in Windows by double clicking on a distressed font, the same thing happens like in Corel Draw. The whole machine begins to choke. No problem with regular fonts. So it could be a Windows problem, but every other application is able to deal with this. Font managers, graphic apps such as Illustrator and Photoshop. But Draw, Paint, and to a lesser degree Font Navigator.
Ahmad Ajlouny said:Since they are rare here who really use AI, are you used to see something equivalent to Corel A.R.M? I.e. does AI crashes as CorelDRAW does? (whether it is Windows' or CorelDRAW's problem)
No. Illustrator pretty much simply never crashes. It also doesn't glitch or have screen redraw problems. It sounds like an exaggeration, but that's as close to the truth as I can get. Around the time of Illustrator 10, there were 2 ways I knew of to crash Illustrator, none for Photoshop at all. Since then, I have not found a way to crash Illustrator.
Ahmad Ajlouny said:Why do you use CorelDRAW?
I started with Draw back in the early 90's. Actually, I had Illustrator first but couldn't make any sense out of it just like most people seem to say. I have a solid decade of work and art files in Draw. After about 2001, I reluctantly began the transition not because I wanted to, but out of necessity. Slowly I began to see the differences and what was really good about Illustrator besides the fact that it never causes any problems. Today, I only use Draw for very specific things like highly customized envelopes. Draw is better than Illustrator for this. I have upgraded every version from Corel Draw 4 through to X4.
Ahmad Ajlouny said:Do you participate in the Illustrator Forum? Check this thread: CorelDRAW Community versus Adobe Illustrator Community.
No, not very much. I have no problems with Illustrator or Photoshop or Indesign except some of the changes that were made in CS4 that look more like bugs than simple changes.
Ahmad Ajlouny said:Should we expect CorelDRAW to perform like Illustrator with that price?
In my opinion, yes.
KuttyJoe said:No. Illustrator pretty much simply never crashes. It also doesn't glitch or have screen redraw problems.
Is that Illustrator on Mac or PC?
KuttyJoe said:I started with Draw back in the early 90's. Actually, I had Illustrator first but couldn't make any sense out of it just like most people seem to say. I have a solid decade of work and art files in Draw. After about 2001, I reluctantly began the transition not because I wanted to, but out of necessity. Slowly I began to see the differences and what was really good about Illustrator besides the fact that it never causes any problems. Today, I only use Draw for very specific things like highly customized envelopes. Draw is better than Illustrator for this. I have upgraded every version from Corel Draw 4 through to X4.
You don't have a gallery here, do you? I have to see some of your work, at least one of your CorelDRAW's envelopes :)
KuttyJoe said: Should we expect CorelDRAW to perform like Illustrator with that price? In my opinion, yes. [/quote] But you feel it will never, don't you? I hope we can hear Corel's opinion ;) Thank you KuttyJoe, I asked a lot of questions; I really appreciate the effort and time you spent to reply and the replies.
Should we expect CorelDRAW to perform like Illustrator with that price?
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But you feel it will never, don't you?
I hope we can hear Corel's opinion ;)
Thank you KuttyJoe, I asked a lot of questions; I really appreciate the effort and time you spent to reply and the replies.