Bob Davis
07-30-2010, 4:19 AM
I have recently upgraded all of our computers to Win 7 with Corel X5. Unfortunately I have discovered a problem with this combination.
Previous versions of Windows with Corel have allowed a comment to be saved with each file. I often used this to indicate material or special engraving factors for the particular job and I have many thousands of Coreldraw files that were saved with a comment (such as "Black Rowmark, white writing" or "3mm clear acrylic")
Using X4 with Vista I discovered that the dialogue area had been removed, but I was able to work around this by running X4 under XP mode. This was achieved by simply right-clicking the program and changing the properties to suit, and worked like a charm. All the dialogue and comments returned!
Now that I have put a lot of time, money and effort into getting the new programs up and running I have discovered that XP mode is not available on Win 7 Home Premium (my software) but can be applied with the Ultimate or Professional versions after downloading an extra program.
I have many thousands of .cdr files with important comments attached that I cannot access...
Does anybody know of a method to access these notes? If I upgrade Win 7 to Professional ($200 x 2) will the dialogue box be available under XP mode?
For future use I guess I'll have to put some text into the actual file before saving, but that doesn't help with the older files. Can you suggest a better system?
Previous versions of Windows with Corel have allowed a comment to be saved with each file. I often used this to indicate material or special engraving factors for the particular job and I have many thousands of Coreldraw files that were saved with a comment (such as "Black Rowmark, white writing" or "3mm clear acrylic")
Using X4 with Vista I discovered that the dialogue area had been removed, but I was able to work around this by running X4 under XP mode. This was achieved by simply right-clicking the program and changing the properties to suit, and worked like a charm. All the dialogue and comments returned!
Now that I have put a lot of time, money and effort into getting the new programs up and running I have discovered that XP mode is not available on Win 7 Home Premium (my software) but can be applied with the Ultimate or Professional versions after downloading an extra program.
I have many thousands of .cdr files with important comments attached that I cannot access...
Does anybody know of a method to access these notes? If I upgrade Win 7 to Professional ($200 x 2) will the dialogue box be available under XP mode?
For future use I guess I'll have to put some text into the actual file before saving, but that doesn't help with the older files. Can you suggest a better system?