Corel X5 - worth updating ?

[Joe De Medeiros]

I'm setting RGB as my default but it keeps reverting to CMYK.

I've been fighting this as well, my wife who is not tech savvy, forgets to check, and you end up with dithered white, it's a real pain.

[Scott Challoner]

Yeah, the new features in X5 are cool, BUT, they completely broke how the mouse scroll wheel works for zooming.

In X4 (and previous versions), wherever you placed the mouse cursor, the program zoomed in/out from there, so, if you wanted to zoom in on a specific area/feature in your drawing, you naturally zoomed and adjusted the mouse position (in or out) as you operated the zoom wheel and you were able to zoom anywhere easily and quickly.

In X5 they broke this. They take the zoom point as the mouse cursor of the first time you click the zoom wheel (in or out), and then do not update it, ever. So you cannot zoom in or out to a specific point just by moving the mouse as you rotate the zoom wheel. You end up getting lost on your drawing rapidly, and have to go up to the tool bar to do a "Fit to page" in order to get back to normality. It's just BROKEN!!! I tried to tell Corel about this, but they have not listened, apparently.

Anyone else have a problem with this, or just me?

Dave F.

Dave

Go to Tools>Options>Toolbox>Zoom, Hand Tool and check the box that says center mouse when zooming with the mouse wheel.

See if that helps.

[Ron Hartl]

I've been fighting this as well, my wife who is not tech savvy, forgets to check, and you end up with dithered white, it's a real pain.

I'm having the same problem,over and over.

[Tony Severenuk (Corel)]

For engravers, there was really no improvement in PhotoPaint.

Really? I would of throught that the changes to Convert to Grayscale would of been very good for engravers.

2 other things to consider...

- Object co-ordinates docker lets you to create objects at a specific size and position on the page.
- When exporting to PLT, users can now choose the uppper left as the origin instead of center of page and lower left

T.

[Tony Severenuk (Corel)]

There is an option under the zoom tool to revert to the previous behaviour...

Tool>Options>Workspace>Toolbox> Zoom, hand tool....look for "[ ] Center mouse when zooming with the mouse wheel"
T.

[Tony Severenuk (Corel)]

I'm having the same problem,over and over.

Go to Tools>Color Management>Default settings
Change the Primary Color Mode setting to RGB instead of CMYK

..this should get it sticking to RGB.

T.

[Mike Null]

Tony

That seems to work for the color.

How about the outline tool. it doesn't seem to stay in place even though I made it a default.

[Garrett Nors]

Yeah, the new features in X5 are cool, BUT, they completely broke how the mouse scroll wheel works for zooming.

In X4 (and previous versions), wherever you placed the mouse cursor, the program zoomed in/out from there, so, if you wanted to zoom in on a specific area/feature in your drawing, you naturally zoomed and adjusted the mouse position (in or out) as you operated the zoom wheel and you were able to zoom anywhere easily and quickly.

In X5 they broke this. They take the zoom point as the mouse cursor of the first time you click the zoom wheel (in or out), and then do not update it, ever. So you cannot zoom in or out to a specific point just by moving the mouse as you rotate the zoom wheel. You end up getting lost on your drawing rapidly, and have to go up to the tool bar to do a "Fit to page" in order to get back to normality. It's just BROKEN!!! I tried to tell Corel about this, but they have not listened, apparently.

Anyone else have a problem with this, or just me?

Dave F.

I was not a fan of the scrolling in X5 when we first got it, but now after I've gotten used to it I prefer it over the old way.

(Also, change doesn't equal broken )

[Tony Severenuk (Corel)]

Tony
How about the outline tool. it doesn't seem to stay in place even though I made it a default.

Sorry, I missed it...what isn't sticking with the outlines?
T.

[Mike Null]

Tony

I like it positioned on the top toolbar with the drop down menu for widths. It defaults to the left hand outline flyout which is an extra step or two.

[Tony Severenuk (Corel)]

Sorry, but I'm still fuzzy...can you give me the exact steps you're doing and I'll try to figure it out.
T.

[Michael Simpson Virgina]

I went from X4 to X5. I dont feel it was worth the money. Also I have more crashes and found more bugs in X5.

[Mike Christen]

One thing I don't like with x5 (not sure if it was same in x4 since i went from x3) is the font selection preview. X5 updates the font of actual text on the screen rather than preview in the font drop down pane. Depending on the text your previewing it could take a few seconds for the font to update, also half the time the drop down pane blocks the text unless its off to the side of the dropdown pane. That is mt fault that i forget to think of this and be sure of text location. crashing isn't as bad as it was in the beginning, maybe sp2 fixed some of it

[Bob Davis]

Thanks for the "zoom" setting tip - that's better!
I've used 7 of the last 8 versions of Coreldraw. For actual functionality with a laser I don't think there have been many large improvements since version 9. There are a couple of cool toys, it's prettier and more integrated, but also a bit more "buggy". Trace is way better and Paint has been improved. Mind you, Paint really needed it.
Photoshop is a wonderful program but has a very steep learning curve and a lot of its capabilities are wasted in the laser engraving area. The people who designed it are very, very clever.

[Dave Fifield]

Thanks Scott! That did the trick - the mouse scroll wheel zooming is now back to X4 action and I'm loving it again! I swear they added this little "fix" in the upadate - I looked high and low for it before and never found anything like this.....maybe they DID listen to my complaints after all?!

Cheers,
Dave Fifiled