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ProlixArgon
11-24-2004, 08:38 PM
For some reason I have lost my X and Y coordinates in Corel Draw 11 OS Win. 2000. I don't have any idea what the problem is, they just stoped showing anything other than zero. If you put in diferent coordinates it will make a duplicate at the proscribed coordinates.
Note: we just re-installed it becouse it had stoped was having major problems. The Corel Draw would not open, it would start to open and get about half-way through and then stop with an error masage stating that there was an error, try restarting the program. It didn't give us more than that, there was no indication what the error was.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Argon
Broacher
11-25-2004, 06:46 AM
Have you tried: right clicking on the status bar, Customize/Status Bar/Reset to Default?
ProlixArgon
11-29-2004, 07:36 PM
That failed to change anything.
Broacher
11-29-2004, 09:37 PM
[sigh] Hokay. So, what version (full number) are you working in? Also, is the mouse driver 'standard' or something more exotic? And while you're at it... do you know the vid card make/model? Corel is extremely 'taxing' on vid card drivers. Are you running it in XP?
I dont suppose it could be something as simple as <view....................<rulers.?????
ProlixArgon
11-29-2004, 10:22 PM
Let's see, it's version 11, on windows 2000 systempack 4, the video card is GeForce FX 5200. The mouse is -as far as I know - fairly standard save for it using lazer instead of the ball. It had been working nicely earlier last week. It just sudenly stoped working corectly in this maner after it stoped working in another.... In other words, it had stoped upening (Draw its self), it would give an error without a message explaining the error.
We fixed that by deleting it, with everything pertaining toit. (registry and all) That fixed that problem, yet this new one started....
As for the rulers, they're there, I don't think it's anything to do with them.
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Post Edited (ProlixArgon) : 11/29/2004 6:26:28 PM GMT
Broacher
11-29-2004, 10:52 PM
I'm not sure if it's worth investigating, but I noticed on my home system that only after 'disconnecting' CorelDraw via the video driver (with this particular card-NVideo, you can select which apps to exclude from the advanced graphic functions) did things go from unpredictable crashes for certain things, to normal behaviour. I also had to do something similar with my Wacom tablet-- that is, customize the driver features to exclude CDraw, in order to get rid of some strange bugs that crept into things.
To be fair, it's not all Corel's fault. Draw, bless it's feature-bloated carcass, is not shy about taking advantage of what a hardware driver 'says' it can do, when quite often, the reality is that it's not quite there yet. This puts it at a disadvantage to software that is designed to operate more at a 'lowest common denominator' level.