CorelDraw very slow, same old CDR problem!

**mwenz** · 22 December 2014, 01:14 PM

Object styles, and other styles that can get embedded, are always a suspect in files that run slow.

Never heard of opening a file in X4 or X5 removing the number of curves.

Mike

**scrubdesignz** · 22 December 2014, 01:41 PM

Thanks Mike, been through the styles and deleted through dockers... we have been working the X5 trick for years... but now all X5 is gone to heaven on our systems and it don't work with the newly installed X7. We bought in thousands of designs, about 5% have the issues, and they are all very important to us. I believe it's to do with these damn powerclip curves, just can't remember the finer points on how to correct it. Over a week now, 3 staff on this problem, costing us a fortune.

**mwenz** · 22 December 2014, 01:54 PM

I haven't had issues bringing forward power clipped items from previous versions myself (knock on wood).

I have a few versions installed. They all play well with each other, so I don't know what's wrong on that front.

You might want to try some searches on the CorelDraw forums. I have seen a few threads about this, participated on at least one of them.

I don't recall if the last thread was ever resolved for the lady or not (her name is Judy should that help finding the thread). It involved spot colors. Her file was incredibly slow to redraw. I rebuilt the file and it was zippy on my system, and hers if I recall. But I don't know if she was actually able to rebuild it in the same manner and get it to run quickly.

Mike

**mwenz** · 22 December 2014, 02:03 PM

It took a bit, but I found the thread in question, and how I actually resolved it. The "other" application I opened the CMX in and exported back out of was Xara Designer Pro.

http://community.coreldraw.com/talk/...46771#pi1484=3

You can read the whole thread, but it really begins here on page 3 (and I'm MikeWe there).

Mike

**scrubdesignz** · 22 December 2014, 02:29 PM

Thanks Mike for taking the time. We've been all over forums in the last week, I have had 3 staff on this the whole time... it's killing our business, can't find a way out. Corel won't answer any emails....

**mwenz** · 22 December 2014, 03:06 PM

Can you upload a poor-performing file here or on dropbox.com and provide a link so I could take a look at it? If needed, as you cannot yet do PMs, we could arrange an email exchange of the link so it remains private if required.

Mike

**scrubdesignz** · 26 December 2014, 11:00 AM

Originally Posted by mwenz

Can you upload a poor-performing file here or on dropbox.com and provide a link so I could take a look at it? If needed, as you cannot yet do PMs, we could arrange an email exchange of the link so it remains private if required.

Mike

Thanks Mike.... this has been my total Christmas for 2014, trying to work out the CorelDraw problem... after following these directions and suggestions, no luck. I have studied the issues as experienced by 'Judy'. As per her screenshot, this is the same as we have. We have X4, X5 and X7 installed in various positions around the company, and this issue has effected a number of designs. We cannot recover them to workable speed. At this point, I will be putting staff off in the new year unless we can get this resolved. We have installed patches 1 - 2 & 3 as recommended.
I will see what i can do with dropbox and dump a file in there, I'm not great myself with this..!
Mark