Problem when clicking Edit Bitmap

[John Hughes]

I think…….

Open Paint

Tools
Options
Global
Filters – associate
tick CDR

might work !

[Peter Normington]

open windows explorer, options, file types, scroll down to bmp and then "opens With" click on you prefered program to open.

if you have just installed a program that views or uses jpgs or bmp’s it may have altered your default settings

Peter

[Harry Cleary]

cheers lads….neither seems to have worked.
Strange one.

[Jamie Dale]

quote Harry Cleary:

cheers lads….neither seems to have worked.
Strange one.

Harry, just right click on any of your bmp files, jpg or whatever type of file your changing, go down to properties, you should see something in there that says "Opens With" just select the correct application by clicking "Change" button.

or if you mean within Corel heres a link to help you:

http://coreldraw.com/forums/t/20416.aspx

Jamie 🙂

[Alan Drury]

F8 on Corel startup and accept factory defaults will reset Corel.
Alan D

[Harry Cleary]

quote Jamie Dale:

quote Harry Cleary:

cheers lads….neither seems to have worked.
Strange one.

Harry, just right click on any of your bmp files, jpg or whatever type of file your changing, go down to properties, you should see something in there that says “Opens With” just select the correct application by clicking “Change” button.

or if you mean within Corel heres a link to help you:

http://coreldraw.com/forums/t/20416.aspx

Jamie 🙂

No, that is fine, jpegs are set to open with picture viewer. Its when I click from inside Corel that it defaults to Paint.

quote Alan Drury:

F8 on Corel startup and accept factory defaults will reset Corel.
Alan D

No, didn’t work Alan, I tried that. 🙁 🙁

[John Parfit]

Did you only use f8 restore on coreldraw Harry, it’s likely lost the file association in photopaint so I would try starting photopaint with f8 pressed.

John

[Harry Cleary]

That sounded like it would work John….. but No! Starting to lose semi precious hair here! 🙁

[John Parfit]

That’s a bummer…..

how about open photopaint, then tools-options-global-filters-associate… make sure cpt is ticked and no others are inc the one for windows paint.

John.

[Harry Cleary]

quote john parfit:

That’s a bummer…..

how about open photopaint, then tools-options-global-filters-associate… make sure cpt is ticked and no others are inc the one for windows paint.

John.

Nice one…progress….I did as you said and now when I click Edit Bitmap it opens a New Draw window. Any ideas on what should be clicked in there…could somebody maybe do a screenshot of theirs? I’m using X3

[John Parfit]

Will keep looking Harry, progress as you say.. this has helped us too I think, in looking around in options in coreldraw I noticed that our x4 had 25% of pc memory (3 gig) as maximum allocated to coreldraw, have altered that to 50% (6 Gig), maybe it will speed up working on big files.

Don’t know if you’ve tried but maybe insert your x3 disc and select ‘repair corelsuite or similar.

John

[John Parfit]

Another thing to try Harry… go back to previous photopaint – global -associations and click on CDX as well as CDR (think it’s something like Corel Data Exchange) that might do it in x3… save as defaults, close and open again.

John

[Andy Regan]

Harry, have you checked to see if this box is ticked in Tools/ customization?

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[Harry Cleary]

No joy folks, still going to Draw. 🙁

[Andy Regan]

mmm. .Ok . .Lets double check some other settings in the same dialog boxes in both draw & photo paint. In coreldraw customization make sure that CTP (corel photo paint image) is unchecked.
In my corel photo paint X3 dialog box all the jpeg bitmaps (apart from JIF bitmap) are selected . .check yours.
There’s also reset buttons on these boxes . . They might be worth a shot.

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[Harry Cleary]

Tried that and the edit bitmap is greyed out. 🙁
I’m begining to think this needs a repair…will have to dig out the disc,
It now won’t let me close Corel because I’m editing a bitmap, which I’m not.

[Nigel Hindley]

Harry, Im not much use with things like this but googled? would this help? looks like the opposite problem but may help? –
http://coreldraw.com/forums/t/16023.aspx