Here's a bug. Launch Corel Draw it bugs the hell out of me.

Seriously. Launch Corhell Draw and start a new document. Place an artistic text cursor and type. Type anything, anywhere in any font. at any size in any color. It comes out at 270 degrees. Great. another wonderful innovation from the folks at Corel. I guess if you are asleep at your desk when your coding, the 270 degree font alignment looks fine coz ur heads tilted. Yeh Yeh F8 the stoopid program. If I did that every time I had an unfixable problem I would Just glue the damned button down and go home. Who has time to reset evry ten minutes. I bareley have time to rant all over this forum.

For all of you whos Corhell Draw works 'Fine" Good.

For all of you that have been following my Joyus posts declaring my love for this piece of work software. Im getting YET ANOTHER SYSTEM. Yes another one because obviously, the 3 or 4 brand new systems and operating platforms that Corhell versions 7 through 13 Didnt work on either, were the problem. So; 4gigs ram, quad core zeon processor at 4 ghz speed with dual nvidia something or other with 512 on board. Its all expandable too. HA. Lets hear about how Corhell is sooooooooo great when IT FAILS on that system too. I will be sure to let all of you know either way. If and I mean If it works I will and I promise I will post that too.

I hope everyone enjoys their day.

Best Reagrds,

 Andy

it amazes me how so many seem to have all these issues with Corel and I have been using DRAW since V6 with only a small issues that were either due to my inability to use the software correctly or were easily fixed.

If your love for the software is so high why not use something else and spend the time you use posting your love into creating what ever it is you create.

I know what the problem is you speak of and know the remedy. maybe youll find the ansewer yet it seems you just wish to post your rants

Hi again, Andy!

At this point you must be wondering if it's something supernatural.  Have you been mean to any spell-casting Gypsies lately?  Maybe you did some evil in a past life and are reaping the Karma. (just kidding, of course)

You do seem to have more than your share of troubles with Corel.  I don't have the solution, but I do remember reading a post about it (and a solution) somewhere on the forum.

You ( and your Canadian Curse) do have my sympathies!

Rob

Hey Andy,

Here's one thread that deals with the problem.  It might not relate to your specific trouble, but I think there were some others... I'll continue to look:

http://coreldraw.com/forums/p/2379/8486.aspx#8486

Rob 

Another...

http://coreldraw.com/forums/p/1610/6825.aspx#6825 

One more that "might" apply:

http://coreldraw.com/forums/p/5960/21437.aspx#21437 

.....I would really like to sit at your computer and see for myself what is going on with you over there. I've been following your posts. I have NEVER had a Fraction of the issues you are experiencing. I have been using DRAW since version 5. I've used it on every processor platform since the 486DX. I strongly believe it's your PC.  I'm not pointing fingers or trying to be rude. That is my honest belief. I would LOVE to park mine next to yours and have you go to town doing whatever it is that you do, on my PC. I'm sure you will see that it's NOT DRAW's fault every time. There are certainly bugs in the software, but 90% of problems are user induced OR directly related to hardware! If the software was really this bad, this forum would be raging with complaints!

Say the word and I'll bring you my PC to use where ever you are. That's how strongly I feel about it.

-Paul

IT Tech / Graphic Designer

 Rob, Thanx for the info. As far as the first thread solution..... All of the value boxes at the end of the text rollout in options> document> defalt text were concerned, were empty. I typed in a default value of zero and made sure to save etc. This did not work. The second and third thread solutions were right on the money. Hmmmmmmm Edit the registry. Wow Corel have really sunk to a new low. I wonder if it is indeed Corel or Windows that changes registry values on the fly. More Likeley Corel.

Thank You Thank You Thank You. At last, one solution that works.

Regards,

 Andy

My pleasure, Andy!

However, it was the wizards on those other posts that had the answer.  I'm just a cog in the giant wheel .

Rob 

I can sort of relate to the situation where I'm the only one having a specific problem.  I had a huge problem that started as far back as Corel Draw 8 and I only solved it in the last two weeks, and completely by accident.  I'm sure of that because I used to work in Draw 8 for the Mac and it had the same problem.  I sometimes will have an image to use as a tracing image underneath on a different layer, or simply locked on the same layer.  What happens is if I use the pan tool, eye dropper, or paint bucket tool, the document instantly corrupts.  Portions of the art begin to vanish, but you can still sort of see the sizing handles!  The more you pan around, the more of the screen vanishes and does not come back.  The only way to solve the problem was to save (saving the document didn't hurt it or lose anything), close the program and relaunch, then get rid of the bitmap image.  With X3, the problem got worse.  The workspace would just corrupt simply because I was moving pallettes around and do the same thing.  It continued with X4.

The problem and the answer:  The problem was that my workspace was somehow corrupt.  It's the same workspace I've been refining and carrying forward for as long as I can remember.  For some reason I recently decided to rebuild my workspace from scratch, based off the default workspace.  Problem solved.  All the problem with moving pallettes went away, so I got excited and decided to bring in a huge bitmap image, place it in the background, then pan all over the place and it worked fine.  The eye dropper and the pan one shot still don't quite get along though.  In other words, if you're using the eye dropper, then press your key command for pan one shot (spacebar for me), then Corel does something where it feels like it sort of "slips", or doesn't quite grab the artboard at first, then catches up within a half second.  This may also be happening with the paint bucket.  I think the problem is multiplied if you hold the spacebar a la Illustrator/Photoshop, rather than just tapping it to engage the pan one shot.  Otherwise, I have no more of those weird anomolies going on with Draw and this was a situation where no one could relate and people always get the feeling that someone is somehow just doing something wrong.  Same thing happened recently when I couldn't customize my workspace.  The answer was that Corel doesn't like it when you switch buttons on the mouse.  The reversed button cannot drag icons from the customize dialog to toolbars.  Switch the buttons back and it works fine.

KuttyJoe

You know by default, the space bar is used to switch to the last tool selected. Maybe reassigning that short cut to another key and letting the space bar do its original command this will fix the "slip" issue. Not sure.. just a guess. Holding the alt key and pressing the left right up down arrows will pan the document aswell. Personally I use the zoom tool with left and right mouse buttons to zoom in and out and havwe assigned the x key to zoom extents selected. that way all I have to do is select some object or 'the' object and hit x. its right there in front of me.

BTW thanx for the compassion.

Hope that helps.

regards, Andy

Yeah, I've reassigned the tool switching to Control/Spacebar.  I simply must have the spacebar for the pan tool.  LOL.  Basically I try to set up all my programs to work the same way so I'm not so clumsy when going from Illustrator to Photoshop to Corel Draw or Paint and more recently, Microsoft Expression Design.  The spacebar pan one shot is as close as I can get to what seems to be the standard way of panning.  If that's causing the glitch with the eye dropper tool, then it's worth it to have this uniformity among all my applications.  But Corel's probably the absolute best when it comes to customization so there are tons of options for making zooming and panning comfortable.  That is a major shortcoming with Adobe products across the board.  It seems like only yesterday that Adobe finally began supporting any form of key command and workspace customization.  Key command customization is still rather limited in Adobe products (I'm probably just spoiled by Corel), although in the extreme use of key modifiers in Illustrator and Photoshop makes it far less of a problem.

Andy Middleton:

Type anything, anywhere in any font. at any size in any color. It comes out at 270 degrees

Check if this applies to your situation: Auto-rotating text help

Ya, I always wondered what caused this too.  Ahmad's post explains it.

If you are using the text tool, but you don't have a text object selected, and you press Ctrl+".", all text you create from that point on will be vertical.

To fix it, select the text tool, and without any text object selected press Ctrl+","

Regards,
Hendrik