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SP1 available for CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4!

June 24th, 2008 Val Posted in CorelDRAW |

If you don’t have auto-update turned on, you may not notice that there is an important update for X4 out. SP-1 is now available and it fixes a lot of the niggling problems X4 has had since it’s release.

Find it here:

http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Content/1157481830100?pid=1213733086367

(While you’re there, you’ll notice that they’ve revamped the Corel.com site!)

With SP 1, big improvements have been made in the way CorelDRAW X4 handles layers not only internally, but also when saving back to previous versions. This problem has kept a lot of folks from using X4 professionally, but layer names are now kept when saving to previous versions so long as they are consistent through the document. (Older versions couldn’t really handle layer names changing through the document, so saving back documents with changing layer names on various pages will probably result in lots of layers and loss of the naming scheme. I haven’t tried it out as of this writing as I’m writing before the SP comes out. If you try it, let me know how it goes. I’ll be working on moving this week.)

There are also lots of other improvements including improved TIF export and improved anti-aliasing in bitmap exports.

Corel PhotoPaint has also had some tweaking done, so SP1 will apply to that as well.

Do the update, check it out, and let me know what you think!

Have fun!

Val P.