As a follow-up to my two previous posts regarding SP1 (general info and specific about RAW), I wanted to provide additional information about when it will be released, what is included with SP1 and how you can get it.
First things first: When? Everything is on track for Corel to release Service Pack 1 for CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 tomorrow.
What's included? We've worked very hard going through your feedback in the forums to make sure that this service pack provided you with solutions to your main problems. I've included a copy of the read-me document that comes with SP1 and describes all the changes included at the bottom of this blog post. One thing not listed in the readme is that we have a new splash-screen that will make it easy to know if you have SP1 installed or not. If you have a flat balloon when launching CorelDRAW or PHOTO-PAINT X4, you don't have Service Pack 1 installed.
How can I get my hands on it?
With the release of SP1, we will start pushing the service pack through Automatic
Update in the Welcome screen in a staggered approach. This means that next time you launch CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 within the next week or so, you will be able to automatically install Service Pack 1 from within the application. The other option for you to get your hands on SP1 will be to download it from http://www.corel.com starting tomorrow morning (Ottawa time).
We highly
recommend to install SP1 on every language that CorelDRAW is currently
available in: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese,
Swedish, Finish, Polish, Czech, Hungarian and Russian. The upcoming Asian
language, once released, will have SP1 included.
Thank you to the team at Corel and the beta testers who worked hard since the launch of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 to get Service Pack 1 out of the door.
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 - Readme Notes
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 Service Pack 1
Installer
- Additional content is installed into separate folders according to type
(clipart, objects, or photos). Shortcuts to these folders are added to the
Start menu to facilitate browsing to the content.
CorelDRAW
Application workspace
- The Scrapbook docker has been added to the default
workspace. You must reset your workspace to see this change.
- Quitting CorelDRAW with the Snap to Grid option enabled no
longer produces an error.
- The resolution of a selected bitmap is now displayed on the status bar.
- Locking guidelines when the rotation handles are visible no longer produces
an error.
Display
- Page display issues no longer occur when you use certain touch-pad or
scrolling devices.
- Dialog boxes and dockers are now properly sized when certain video device
drivers and settings (specifically nView) are used.
Document Controls
- Several enhancements were made to the Object Manager docker
to enhance the new layer structure functionality:
- The layer structure and layer names are now retained when you open a file
from a previous version and then save it back to a previous version.
- Files that have a consistent layer structure throughout the document can now
be saved back to previous versions with the layer structure intact and layer
names retained.
- Toggling the Show/Hide icon in the Layer Manager view shows
or hides the Master Layer on a specific page. If changes are made while not in
the Layer Manager view, the settings for the Master Layer are applied to the
entire document.
- Master Layers remain at the bottom of the layers list when a new page is
inserted.
- When you drag guidelines onto the page, they are added to the Master Guide
layer as they were in previous versions. If you have a local Guides layer
selected and then drag a guideline to the page, it is added to the local Guides
layer. Guides can still be moved from the Guides layers to the Master Guide
layer. If you prefer to add guides to the local Guides layer, you must edit the
registry key at:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Corel\CorelDRAW\14.0\CorelDRAW\Application
Preferences\Guides\GuidelinesOnMasterPage. A value of 1 adds guides to the
Master Page; a value of 0 adds guides to the local Guides layer.
Text
- Mirroring or resizing paragraph text with the Text > Show
Non-Printing Characters command enabled no longer displays an error.
- Shortcuts for increasing and decreasing text size are now working in both
Edit state and Pick state.
- Adjusting line, character, or word spacing interactively with the
Shape tool in any display mode no longer results in a crash.
- When you are moving a text object to duplicate it at a specific position,
the original is now displayed when you press the plus sign or spacebar, or when
you right-click. This enhancement can help you position the duplicate in
relation to the original text object.
- Numbers entered by using an Asian IME are now marked with a Latin language
ID. A Latin font can be applied without having to change the language of
numbers.
- When you open files from earlier versions that contain text on a path, the
text no longer shifts from its original position.
- Hovering over the Font Size list box applies the change
only after you click the new font size.
- When TrueDoc is used to embed fonts within a document, double-byte and
bidirectional fonts are not supported.
- Bullets, drop caps, and indents in paragraph text that has Right to Left
direction are converted to curves when the file is saved to CorelDRAW versions
13.0 and earlier.
Tools
- Applying the Undo command on dimension lines no longer
produces an error.
Vector Effects
- When editing PowerClip objects and symbols, the object inside the linked
group is now selected by default.
OLE
- OLE support for Excel 2007 tables has been enhanced.
- CorelDRAW is now fully terminated when it completes an OLE session as a
server.
- When you work in a container application, editing the
TextFont Options no longer produces an error.
- When CorelDRAW is run as a server application, the Print
command no longer becomes disabled.
Web Functions
- The Automatically Hyperlink feature has been enhanced for
Asian languages.
Bitmap Controls & Effects
- Information about bitmap resolution is now displayed on the status bar.
- When bitmaps are exported, bitmap inflation and anti-aliasing of straight
lines no longer occur due to a change in the anti-aliasing behavior during
export.
Object Attributes & Controls
- The Apply to Duplicate option in the
Transformation docker creates a duplicate the first time you
use the option.
- Sampling colors by using the Eyedropper tool has been
enhanced to improve compatibility with Asian operating systems.
- The Replace text properties feature in the Replace Wizard
has been enhanced to work with double-byte text.
- When arrowheads are added to dimension lines, the arrowheads are added only
to the line that contains the dimension text.
- When dimension lines are selected, the pen outline attributes are now
correctly displayed in the Pen Outline dialog box.
Corel PHOTO-PAINT
Lenses
- Copying a lens in Corel PHOTO-PAINT no longer results in program
instability.
Tools
- Deleted nibs are now removed from the Brush Settings
docker, thus making nibs easier to manage.
Printing
- Print separations in Corel PHOTO-PAINT no longer produces unnecessary empty
plates.
- Print Merge has been enhanced to recognize RTF & CSV files saved from
within the Wizard.
- Print Preview is no longer missing any printing boundaries areas of the
current driver.
Import/Export Filters
TIF
- TIFF export has been enhanced to improve compatibility with Photoshop CS3.
RAW
- RAW support for the following camera models has been added: Canon EOS 450D,
Canon Powershot G9, Sony DSLR-A300, DSLR-A200, DSLR-A350, Fuji IS-1, S100FS,
Pentax K20D, Nikon D60, and Olympus E-420.
- The following RAW file formats are now listed in the Import an
Image and Open and Image dialog boxes: Adobe DNG,
Kodak DCR, Pentax PEF, Leaf MOS, Sony SRF, SR2, ARW, and Panasonic RAW.
Microsoft Word (DOC)
- Double-byte text compatibility has been improved.
Adobe Illustrator (AI)
- Custom edge-pad settings are now retained in imported AI files that contain
gradients.
- Asian text support has been improved for exported AI files that are opened
in Adobe Illustrator (versions CS and higher).
Portable Document Format (PDF)
- Publish to PDF: Spot colors assigned to fills and outlines are now
maintained in monochrome bitmaps.
- The autosensing functionality during PDF import has been enhanced. If a file
is saved with the AI compatibility option enabled, it is opened
as a PDF file by default; if you wish to open the PDF as an AI file, you must
select the AI - Adobe Illustrator filter in the
Import dialog box.
- Import PDF: When text is imported as curves and the text font is not
available on the computer, the curves are created by using the embedded font
within the PDF file; if the font is not embedded, the Panose Font
Matching dialog box will be invoked.
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 Version Number Table:
|
Application
|
X4 Initial Release
|
X4 Service Pack 1
|
|
CorelDRAW X4
|
14.0.0.567
|
14.0.0.653
|
|
PHOTO-PAINT
|
14.0.0.567
|
14.0.0.653
|