Ottawa, ON – July 28, 2010

Corel Corporation today announced the introduction of a free update for CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X5, the company’s flagship graphic design software. Available as a free download from Corel’s website, Service Pack 1 (SP1) includes new functionality to Corel® CONNECT™ that enables users to instantly browse millions of free and for purchase stock images on leading online photo sites including Fotolia and iStockphoto® from within the CorelDRAW creative environment.

“With CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5, our goal was to deliver a suite of professional applications that enabled our users to create with impact,” said John Falsetto, Senior Product Manager, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite. “This update takes this even further, giving our users even more control and options to connect with compelling content. Providing exceptional value to today’s graphics professional, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5 is the only professional graphic design software to offer users direct access to leading stock image sources.”
Instant Access to More Online Content:

Corel CONNECT synchronizes CorelDRAW and Corel® PHOTO-PAINT™ to provide quick access to content on a computer, network, or disc. With this update, Corel CONNECT now offers fully integrated online search and purchasing capabilities for high quality images improving productivity, eliminating workflow interruptions, and allowing users to quickly access new content from within the CorelDRAW creative environment.

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5 Service Pack 1 also includes import support for the latest Adobe® Illustrator ® CS5 and Adobe® Photoshop® CS5 file formats and offers extended RAW Camera support. For deadline-driven, production professionals working in the areas of visual communications and vector illustration, this extended file format support is essential for quickly creating a range of assets from professional quality Web graphics, and multipage brochures to high impact signage and digital displays.
Free Update Highlights:

* New! Corel CONNECT Updates: New integration with leading online photo sites including Fotolia and iStockphoto gives users access to millions of images for various projects.
* New! Extended file import support: Import support for the latest Adobe® Illustrator® CS5 and Adobe® Photoshop® CS5 file formats gives users maximum flexibility.
* Extended! RAW Support: Now supports RAW formats from additional selected models of Canon®, Casio®, Pentax®, Fuji® and Sony® cameras.

In addition, with the help of our passionate CorelDRAW Graphics Suite user community, the free SP1 also includes several stability and performance enhancements.
Availability

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5 SP 1, offering the new functionality outlined above as well as enhanced stability, performance and fixes, is now available as a free download from www.corel.com/updates.

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5 SP 1 is available globally in English, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Finnish, Polish, Czech, Russian, Hungarian and Turkish.

To learn more about CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5, purchase an ESD or download a free 30-day trial, please visit www.corel.com/coreldraw . To learn more about how CorelDRAW Graphics Suite is used worldwide, please visit the product’s community site at http://coreldraw.com.
About Corel Corporation

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Our award-winning product portfolio includes some of the world’s most widely recognized and popular software brands, including CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite, Corel® Painter™, Corel DESIGNER® Technical Suite, Corel® PaintShop Photo®, Corel® VideoStudio®, Corel® WinDVD®, Corel® WordPerfect® Office, WinZip® and Corel® Digital Studio™.

http://www.softwarekb.com/news/2010/03/23/wordperfect-x5/

Environment: WordPerfect 9.0.0.896
Windows XP Professional SP 3
When I try to use the following macro commands:
PrefLocationOfDocuments or
PrefLocationOfMacroFiles

I get a ‘Parameter error’ message, regardless of the parameters specified. The parameter in error is not indicated. Is there something special about these commands, something that I should know?

Those commands are in the old style, where each command includes a set of brackets and options. I’ve had reliable results by ignoring them. Instead, go to the WordPerfect Macro Help file, and browse through the section of “Current WordPerfect System Variables”. I think you’ll use “?PathDocument” and “?PathMacros”, but there are also options for the supplemental folders for each of those settings.

These system variables are easy to use without parameters; this sample works in my code, to assign the current Graphics path to a variable named GPath:

GPath:=?PathGraphics

From the Corel description:

Hot Fix 2 resolves three issues and provides one enhancement.
Resolved issues:
* Copying and pasting unformatted text in tables no longer causes corruption.
* The File | Save As dialog box now uses the folder of the originating document as the default folder.
* The File | Publish to PDF dialog box now uses the folder of the originating document as the default folder.

Enhancement:
* When publishing to the PDF/A format, you can now include hyperlinks.

Download screen– From inside WordPerfect, choose Help, Check for Updates…
Click the message to see the description, and to install the Hot Fix.
Some users will need the installation CDs to install the service pack.
The current version number of WordPerfect will increase from 14.0.0.755 (SP2) to 14.0.0.756 after installation.

More information here:
http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Content/1157481830100?pid=1252951619505

How to tell if you’ve already got SP2:

Check in Help, About WordPerfect… for the version number. It’s on the top line, just below the big logo box.
For WordPerfect, Quattro Pro, and Presentations, the version number for SP2 is 14.0.0.755. For Paradox, it’s 11.0.0.663.

There’s more about the patch, including what’s fixed, here:
http://www.corel.com/content/wpo/wpox4_sp2/readme_pro.html

As with all Corel patches, download by going to Corel.com, and then follow the links to Support, Patchs and Updates, and then choose the product. Clicking the item title in the download list leads to the release notes.

Jerry Stern
Author, Graphcat Photo Album Builder for Corel WordPerfect 5.1 through X4

Postby Jim Pinot on Thu Mar 26, 2009 3:49 pm
I am having problems with WP and Office 2007 in Vista Buisness. So I was going to uninstall all programs and start over. When I try to do the Contol Panel uninstall, at about 65% I get the following message.

Error 1606 Could not access network location < o~ E Sign sign exp 4. Each time I get a different variant of this message with different characters being displayed.

The same message occurs when I try to restore the program.

In each case the activity is aborted.

So now I am stymied.

Jim Pinot

Postby Graphcat on Fri Apr 03, 2009 4:24 pm

Here is some information in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315352

And more over at Installshield:
http://consumerdocs.installshield.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=Q110724&sliceId=1

Both point to registry settings being wrong.
Jerry Stern

Moderator and Webmaster
Author of Graphcat and FileTiger
http://www.startupware.com
http://www.filetiger.com
http://www.graphcat.com

Postby NORMURR on Mon Feb 23, 2009 1:41 pm
Before I download WordPerfect Office X4 upgrade.

I own and have installed on my computer the full version of ( not an upgrade ) Wordperfect 12 ( not the suite ).

Does anyone know if WordPerfect 12 can be upgraded with Wordperfect Office X4 or do I have to buy the full program ?

The upgrade would be a saving of $150.00 USD.

I have tried and tried to reach Microsoft and Corel but all I do is go around in circles.

Norm Murr

Postby Graphcat on Tue Feb 24, 2009 9:05 am
Norm–

Yes, you can upgrade. From the Corel site, just below their ‘Buy Now’ buttons as of today, there’s a link to “Are you eligible to upgrade?”
Here’s the link, as of today:
http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/ … bview=tab0

Upgrade Eligibility

To purchase the upgrade version of this product, you must own a previous licensed version of:

* Corel® WordPerfect® Office 10 or higher
* Microsoft® Office 97 or higher
* Microsoft® Works Suite 2000 or higher

As for INSTALLING the upgrade, don’t install in the same folder as WP 12. You can have both 12 and X4 on the same computer, and they work well together, if you need two documents open on two monitors, for example.
Jerry Stern
Moderator and Webmaster
Author of Graphcat and FileTiger
http://www.startupware.com
http://www.filetiger.com
http://www.graphcat.com

Postby NORMURR on Wed Feb 25, 2009 8:33 am
Thank You Graphcat

Much Appreciated.

Norm

Postby AdrianRoth on Wed Feb 11, 2009 6:38 pm
Environment:
WordPerfect 9
Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 3
Setup:
I create a table with three columns
In cell C2 I specify the formula +C1+B2
In cell C2 I specify “copy the formula down 5 times”
Problem:
Formerly the “copy” would adjust the formula so that in cell C3 the formula would be +C2+B3, etc.
Now the “copy” doesn’t adjust the formula; in the third column of each row the formula is +C1+B2
I don’t know what happened to change the way that the “copy” command works.
What must I do to have the “copy” command adjust the formula?
Thanks,
Adrian

Postby Graphcat on Fri Feb 13, 2009 10:22 am

I re-created your table in WP 10.0.0.990, and it worked correctly. (I don’t have 9 installed any more; I just keep the last 5 versions.)

I don’t see any options that affect this. I don’t see any relevant bugs in the Corel Knowledgebase.

That leaves a formula that WP is recognizing as text instead of as a formula, or document corruption, or a bug that was quietly fixed either in 10, or in a service pack for 9.

So, there are a few things to check:
Try rebuilding the simple test version of the table in a new, empty document. If it works, the original is either corrupted or the formula is being read as a label. Your example is simple–I wonder if it fails in the real world on a much larger table, with many rows of running totals carried down.

WP9 should be version 9.0.0.738 for Service Pack 3. (Look in Help, About…)
Details here:
http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/ … 3321346751
All the downloads for 9 are here:
http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/ … 8716793655

And… (could be a waste of time, but you never know):
Open Quattro Pro 9, go to Settings, and reverse the setting for “Cell Reference Checker”. Should not make a difference, but I don’t know how much of the code is shared between different portions of the suite. There is no equivalent setting in WP.

Jerry Stern
Moderator and Webmaster
Author of Graphcat and FileTiger
http://www.startupware.com
http://www.filetiger.com
http://www.graphcat.com

http://www.graphcat.com/wordperfect-keyboard-shortcuts-free-reference-chart/

Jerry Stern
Moderator and Webmaster
Author of Graphcat and FileTiger
http://www.startupware.com
http://www.filetiger.com
http://www.graphcat.com