Does working with text in CorelDRAW X4 seem slow?
You probably know that the new "live text" feature is slowing you down.
If you have a very powerful system less than 2 or 3 years old, Live Text might update or redraw at a reasonable rate for you.What about everyone else? Not every artist has a new computer, and neither do I.
Up until today, I'd reach for CorelDRAW X3 for all new projects. Why? On my system, working with text in X4 was agony for;
The responsiveness I'd come to expect from CorelDRAW over the last 10 years was down the drain with Live Text on.
So, how do you disable? Very special thanks to Ariel for this...
Sorry, a disclaimer: Use the following at your own risk...
I've made 2 registry files for people nervous about entering the registry. Close CorelDRAW X4. Open the ZIP file at the bottom of this blog post. Double-click the one you want, and follow the very simple instructions. Then run CorelDRAW X4.
Or, manually:
1. Close CorelDRAW X4.
5. Change the LiveText key from 1 to 0
6. Close REGEDIT
7. Run CorelDRAW X4
8. Make some text, and enjoy the speed you might have missed from previous CorelDRAW versions!
BTW, drag-duplicating text works again, for being able to see the orig. text in place.
livetext.zip
If you have a very powerful system less than 2 or 3 years old, Live Text might update or redraw at a reasonable rate for you.What about everyone else? Not every artist has a new computer, and neither do I.
Up until today, I'd reach for CorelDRAW X3 for all new projects. Why? On my system, working with text in X4 was agony for;
- Moving it around the screen
- Scaling it
- Rotating it
The responsiveness I'd come to expect from CorelDRAW over the last 10 years was down the drain with Live Text on.
So, how do you disable? Very special thanks to Ariel for this...
Sorry, a disclaimer: Use the following at your own risk...
I've made 2 registry files for people nervous about entering the registry. Close CorelDRAW X4. Open the ZIP file at the bottom of this blog post. Double-click the one you want, and follow the very simple instructions. Then run CorelDRAW X4.
Or, manually:
1. Close CorelDRAW X4.
2. Go to: Start menu | Run
3. Type REGEDIT and press enter.
4. Find:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Corel\CorelDRAW\14.0\CorelDRAW\Application Preferences\TextTool5. Change the LiveText key from 1 to 0
6. Close REGEDIT
7. Run CorelDRAW X4
8. Make some text, and enjoy the speed you might have missed from previous CorelDRAW versions!
BTW, drag-duplicating text works again, for being able to see the orig. text in place.
livetext.zip
posted by Jeff Harrison at
7:17 PM
10 Comments:
very useful tips.
I almost wanna to leave it again and back to ver.11
I'm veteran from ver.2
love much with ver. 5,9 and 11
but.. just trying this x4.. really heavy
I like a lot the snap feature in ver.11. And feel missing it.. cos in X4, the snap make me little confuse..
you have any tips for this??
thx b4.
Dynamic guides is good thing... BUT WHERE you grab first shape helps Draw understand what you're doing.
Usually I have all snapping off though, less frustration moving things around.
I think I must learn my lesson again. LOL
Anyway.. are you install X4 on vista or XP SP3, or XP64 SP2? Have you ever got "unknowing crash"?
I install on vista game edition, SP2, with 4GB memory & 3 physycal HDD (80,80and 320GB), but sometimes I got slow respond or sometimes got crash.. Think I would like to get back to XP. Thx b4.
I use XP SP3
Great.. I just back to XP SP3 last night. I think Vista not suitable for designer. Especially i lost all preview thumbnail after install CS4 suite. Really annoying.
Thanks for ur feedback. It helps a lot.
Thanks for this tip.
I have just one problem, with live text off, I can bold, italic and underline and increase/decrease text size, but I cannot change text alignment onscreen (left, center, right, full), I have to bring up the text edit dialog box.
Notihng happens when I click the botton on the toolbar.
Am I doing something wrong, or is this a price to be paid?
Thanks for this tip.
I have just one problem, with live text off, I can bold, italic and underline and increase/decrease text size, but I cannot change text alignment onscreen (left, center, right, full), I have to bring up the text edit dialog box.
Notihng happens when I click the botton on the toolbar.
Am I doing something wrong, or is this a price to be paid?
hi steve,
"I have just one problem, with live text off, I can bold, italic and underline and increase/decrease text size, but I cannot change text alignment onscreen (left, center, right, full), I have to bring up the text edit dialog box.
Notihng happens when I click the button on the toolbar."
first, it works here, make sure you have 2 lines of text at least. Since in X4, changing alignment on a single line of artistic text won't change how the text looks on screen at first glance, which is right, unlike older vers of Draw. So go try it on two lines of text.
second, much better to assign ALT + number keys to all align modes. very fast to change text, I use ALT+ 1 through 5.
No, it does not matter how I select text (single line, multiple lines or text block) toolbar buttons don't work, neither do hot keys.
Thanks anyway.
Hi Steve,
With live text off, I can use tool bar icons, or hotkeys to change text aligmnent. You might consider resetting Draw by holding F8, launching Draw and overwriting workspace with defaults. Then live text will be enabled since it's a default. Then you can try to disable if you desire. It prefer it off.
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