Misleading dialog when opening X4 files in X3
When opening newer CorelDRAW files in earlier versions, a dialog used to pop up. It warned that the file you were trying to open was created in a newer version of CorelDRAW. This is clear and true.
However, when attempting to open an CorelDRAW X4 file in CorelDRAW X3, this dialog doesn't give the operator any valuable info on why it isn't opening.
If a user had gotten used to the old warning dialog, they might now suspect the file is corrupt, which isn't the case.
This leads to the designer using CorelDRAW X4 being asked to re-email/FTP the artwork again, only for the X3 user to get the same dialog. Which can result in frustration – until it's sorted out which versions of CorelDRAW everyone is using.
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However, when attempting to open an CorelDRAW X4 file in CorelDRAW X3, this dialog doesn't give the operator any valuable info on why it isn't opening.
If a user had gotten used to the old warning dialog, they might now suspect the file is corrupt, which isn't the case.
This leads to the designer using CorelDRAW X4 being asked to re-email/FTP the artwork again, only for the X3 user to get the same dialog. Which can result in frustration – until it's sorted out which versions of CorelDRAW everyone is using.
click on image.
posted by Jeff Harrison at
11:55 AM
1 Comments:
Jeff,
No doubt this error is misleading. I think this comes from the radical redesign of the CorelDRAW file format with CorelDRAW X4. I described the file format change when talking about incompatibilities with ROMCat.
It is a chicken and egg problem. Older versions of CorelDRAW were designed before the new file format hit the drawing board. And yet a major file format change like this was a good move for Corel. About the only way to truly solve it would be for service packs of previous versions that knew enough about the new file format to at least trigger a correct error message. I doubt we'll see that.
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