can anyone help with corel X3 problem please?

[Alan Drury]

Ensure you have the latest SPs installed should show as 13.0.0.739 in the ‘about Corel’ tab.
You can try importing the cdr instead of opening, also drag and drop from Explorer (this worked from some problem ai files). Failing that I would save your desktop if customised, close Draw, relaunch with F8 pressed, accept the factory default workspace and then try again.
If you can get into Draw and can run the convert macro you can try converting the cdr to cmx and then importing that. That will strip any styles from the cdr.
Alan D

[Nick Williamson]

Thanks alan

have tried re start corel with f8 pressed and guess whot file opened up ok and can modify it.

just checked version 13.0.0.667 will try to up date thanks again

cheers Nick

[Alan Drury]

I think 667 was the first SP, the second one is readily available but is about 40meg from memory.
Glad you’re sorted, it’s worth remembering the F8 thing it does cure alot of unexplained issues.
Alan D

[Nick Williamson]

Thanks have down loaded update so lets see what happens now.

After the ease of sign lab outline tools corel is so complicated at times

thanks again have printed off a stickr with f8 in case of emergency etc

cheers thanks again.

[Alan Drury]

Don’t confuse outline with contour in Corel, must dash now but post your problem and I’ll try to sort tomorrow sometime.
Alan D

[Nick Williamson]

Thanks again been using the outline tool then converting outline to object etc takes an age. Use to have corel 8 then version 11 but am so used to using signlab corel got left behind but now with the arrival of our versacamm we have found corel or photoshop have to be used dont want to start a discussion which is best each does certain things better.

Any hints on fades for backgrounds or photos welcomed actually anything really

cheers Nick

[Alan Drury]

Use the contour tool, it is now curves not straight lines, group objects and then apply contour to do all of them, I have a script somewhere which then enables you to round corner but obviously you could ‘break contour group apart’ and the use Corel’s fillet option. Fades are easy in Corel which bit are you getting stuck on?
Alan D