John, I had some time so I put it into your question. The attachment (if I don't forget to add it) has a PP file. The only thing of interest in it is the VBA...
Belwo is a sample sub of what i am doing. The problem is this; If I do nothing in the way of setting the width of the text, the fit to path works. However if I...
... indicated ... something ... it ... This is the way CorelDRAW works. It has nothing to do with VBA, you can reproduce the same behavior manually in the...
Hi Alex, To answer your questions: I use the script version to control the different aspects of the FitTextToPath. and I wasnt using the Shape.Stretch...
Hi everyone, First, I have some good news: message archives are restored and now are online (several last messages are lost though but there wasn't much of...
Alex, On second thought about the text to path question. Your answer doesnt really make sense to me. Let me explain what my goal is. A specified circle, let's...
Is it me? When attempting to participate in the poll I seem to be giong round in circles. Charlie Maitland ... From: Alex Vakulenko [mailto:alexv@...] ...
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Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the cdrvba group: How severely your CorelDRAW 10 automation projects are affected by VBA- related bugs...
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Scott, Alex is right (as usual). That's a Corel issue. The more you distort text (stretch included) the more likely you'll have garbled text along the path....
Hi Roy, Yea I see it working that way I just dont understand why. Seems to me this a bug, not a feature. :) Well I guess I will have to figure a work...
... Scott, Bug with capital letters! Seems to me like you could "borrow" Xenetech code to accomplish the work around. That would be an significant feature...
How 'bout it Alex... Is this something Corel plans to fix in its next version? I would hate to do the work only to have it fixed at a later date.... Where does...
Scott, ... next ... later ... a ... Obviously I cannot tell for Corel but I have noticed this issue numerous times on newsgroups. Definitely it is a usability...
Hi group, I just wanted to thank everyone who has answered my request to participate in the poll. So far I have received 11 replies which is quite good...
Thanks for the info Alex. Scott ... as ... but ... don't ... it, ... say ... 200% ... end ... it ... size). ... AvantGarde ... Test ... nothing ... the ... ...
I have a question about the 'cut-down' version of CorelDRAW that comes in the CorelDRAW Essentials box -- does it include the CorelDRAW 9 API/TLB? Can I...
Nick, CorelDRAW Essentials is a regular CorelDRAW 9 for VB in terms of automation interfaces. I haven't tried everything but basic stuff like creating document...
Hey all, I need to convert around 4500 .CDR files to .WMF. I've written some VB 6 code to iterate through the files in the folder (using the FileSystemObject)...
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Nov 14, 2001 10:47 pm
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David, Which version of CorelDRAW are you using? I have checked in CDR10 and there is a WMF filter for the StructSaveAsOptions. I haven't checked CDR9. -- Nick...
CorelDraw 9. ... From: Nick Wilkinson [mailto:nick@...] Sent: Thursday, 15 November 2001 10:01 AM To: cdrvba@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [cdrvba] Easy...
David Ames
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Nov 14, 2001 11:04 pm
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David, It's a bit of a hack, but you could try setting the filter type to 1294 (&H50E). This is the vlalue of the constant cdrWMF -- if may just be an ...
Thanks for that Sort'a works :) I now get a WMF export dialog box when I run this. (export text as text/curves, OK) I'm exporting some 4,500 images, so having...
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Nov 14, 2001 11:45 pm
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David, I recall that the _workaround_ for this is to do the first export once and set the settings; these should be remembered. Then do the second export and ...
Worked. Thanks for all of your help. Regards, DAVID AMES I.T. Co-Ordinator IN-SITE Phone 1300-134-435 Fax: 9872-5566 Direct: 8873 2207 ... From: Nick Wilkinson...
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Great :) Pleasure. -- Nick Wilkinson. www.isocalc.com -- The site for technical illustrators. ... From: "David Ames" <davida@...> To:...
All, Is anyone experiencing Coreldrw "sleeping"? Occasionally, processes to coreldrw seem to be hung - if I hover (not click/activate) over Corel on the...
I have experienced it. We have an application automating Coreldraw 9 and it tends to stop/pause for a while. If I move the mouse over the page it continues....
Ah, Thanks for the feedback Georgeann! Same here, I have noticed it for a while and most of the time it continues. It is really starting to interfere with the...
Craig, ... I have notice that as well, however the actual cause of this behavior is unknown so far. When you do the call from out-of-process (VB-to- CorelDRAW...