Corel Draw Glitch?

[ken dixon]

Hi, I have corel draw 8 and when I try to save my drawing, about 75% of the time the program crashes. I am using windows XP home edition. Has anyone had similar problems and how did you fix it? I bought the program used. Other than that problem it works fine. Thanks Ken

 

[finn]

have you tryed to re install the program ? or maybe go in the program to help there is normaly a option to "update" or check for updates. sometimes that will fix problems.

 

[mcrapo]

Have you tries to see if there are any updates for the program on Corel's web site? If there are, download and apply them. Also sometimes a program will crash because of a bad install. Sometimes it helps to uninstall and reinstall the program. Also could be a unstable install of you OS, or a piece of hardware of yours that is going out.

Have you contacted Corel's customer support about it yet, they may have ideas, and/or someone who can help you over the phone.

Mike

 

[Sam]

Be sure Corel 8 runs on XP. Version 8 is fairly old. / Sam

 

[jimzim75]

You sometimes can pickup later versions on Ebay for a good price. Of course you have to carefull.

 

[Andrew Biggs]

Hi Ken

Corel 8 is getting quite old now..............definatley check Sam's advice. I've experienced this type of thing with other programmes when we upgrade our computers at work.

Cheers
Andrew

 

[Big-Un]

Check e-bay for sure. I bought CorelDraw X3 from a vendor for $84.00 and it works great. The reason for the low price was the original box was water damaged and they had to get rid of them somehow...he had 4 available. All I got in the mail was the four discs in paper sleeves, but it all downloaded with no problem. Now I need to learn how to use it, and Andrew's presentation from the last FEGA seminar is excellent.

 

[ken dixon]

Thanks for the advice, I checked and it was made for windows NT and 95. I just thought any later version would work. I guess not. I may have to get a newer version. Thanks Ken

 

[finn]

if you want to try Adobe

By the way if you ever want to try Adobe products…like illustrator, or photo shop, and would like to know how to better use them . but don’t have some $money$ for a class here is a link to the latest CS3 products ( I use them and they are great)

when you click this link it will open up a turorial ( just click on the upper X right hand side ) and pick the product you want on the left then scroll down to pick the topic you would like to learn.

http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/?id=vid0026

it’s a great way to learn just click and watch how to use the tools there is all of the adobe products here and lots of great tutorials
have fun