Expert: Ran - 7/10/2009

Question
sir, am using corel x3 it is taking ages to open a file in corel
draw ads plenty of time is also needed for copy and paste
even if it is a line of text. very slow. i tried to increase
memory no result. i connected a new hard disk for working
memory no use please help..

Answer
Hi Jimmy

CorelDraw X3 is a mature product and has no particular memory problems that I am aware of. It sounds like you either have an old slow PC, or the files you are working with are very large.

Many people take massive images with their digital cameras then expect to scale them down and put several of them on a page. In theory this should be ok, but unless you click "Resample bitmap" once you scale them down, the pictures will remain at their full size. This leads to absolutely enormous file sizes and of course slow performance, because unless the file can be held in memory it will be constantly paging to and from the hard disk.

If your X3 is very slow even with a new blank file I might suggest removing CorelDraw from your system, reboot, defrag your hard drive a couple of times and then re-install the program. This is because if the CorelDraw program file itself is fragmented it could reduce performance.

I hope this helps, please let us know!