PhotoDraw - Re: Office 12 Seems to Break PD v2

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Re: Office 12 Seems to Break PD v2

Kirk Carpenter

2006-09-15, 6:27 pm

Cari-

Has the conflict between O12 and PDv2 been resolved with the release of the
O12 Beta 2 Technical Refresh?

Kirk

"Cari (MS-MVP)" <Newsgroups1@coribright.com> wrote in message
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> Just wondering whether I'm alone in seeing this problem, importing jpgs
> into PD v2 (standalone) now seem to come in with the wrong aspect ratio,
> they appear 'squashed'..
>
> I'm trying a reinstall of PD v2 today and will report back. Since it's no
> longer supported I doubt anyone is going to do anything about it, but just
> wanted to hear from anyone else who might have reproduced the same effect.
> --
> Cari (MS-MVP)
> Printing & Imaging
> http://www.coribright.com/windows
>
>
>
>

Cari $MS-MVP$

2006-09-24, 6:22 pm

Having gotten a new notebook last Thursday it was the ideal time to play
around.... Office 2003 + PhotoDraw v2 ... all worked perfectly. With the B2
+ TR, I upgraded ONLY Outlook. And bang, PhotoDraw was messed up totally.
All other Office programs were left at 2003 level.

Right now I'm UNINSTALLING Outlook 12 and much as I do actually prefer it to
Outlook 11, I find PhotoDraw even more essential. So I'll use Office 12 on
my 64 bit Test PC which runs Windows x64 and does all the beta testing...
and stick with the older Office on my more everyday PCs. Such a shame.

I do use PSP v7 and 8 for animated graphics, but for everyday, PhotoDraw
still has them all beat. I don't even have to think when I use it.

BTW It's a Toshiba P105-9132... Core Duo T2500 with 2gb of RAM and 256mb
dedicated GeForce 7900 GS. Really nice piece of work. Just a shame it
won't be using Office 12 really!
--
Cari (MS-MVP)
Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging
http://www.coribright.com/windows

"Kirk Carpenter" <kirkc1@cox.net> wrote in message
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> Cari-
>
> Has the conflict between O12 and PDv2 been resolved with the release of
> the O12 Beta 2 Technical Refresh?
>
> Kirk
>
>
> "Cari (MS-MVP)" <Newsgroups1@coribright.com> wrote in message
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>
>

kafkaschimp

2006-09-24, 6:22 pm

This is the most infuriating thing about Office 2007. The re-loading
suggestions don't work (and I have tried on three different computers.

The infuriating thing is that the great strength of Photodraw is in its
handling of text, and the abilty to quickly create a wide variety of text
designs. No other program I have discovered (and I have everything from Adobe
to Corel Painter, and expressions Graphic designer) comes anywhere near. Does
anyone know of such a program?

However, there is a workaround, though it is slightly clumsy. Photodraw
*will* save in .tif, though it won't in jpeg or gif. What I am now doing is
creating a series of images, and then, once saved in .tif format, batch
converting them using Paint Shop Pro X - takes a few extra minutes, not many
- and then using the images in Expressions Web. I tried matching an image I
had originally created before loading Office 7, when this problem didn't
occur. The two images are identical (scale ,etc) - so this method works
satisfactorily.

Microsoft are really missing out on not developing the text graphics
abilities of PhotoDraw - just as they missed out on developing Image
Composer, which for its time was an amaxing little program that came free
with FP (and which I sometimes still use).

"djsputnike@XXXXXXXXXX" wrote:

> Grrr. That's all I can say. Damnit Microsoft. I mean I love Office 2007
> and think it's a very welcomed change to me to use. It seems Beta 1
> didn't mess up my laptop at all, then I installed Beta 2 on my other
> computer and noticed Photodraw wasn't working. It only saved as MIX
> files. I also installed Office 2007 on my laptop, and now this won't
> save in mix... So after ages of testing to see what the problem was...
> I realised. And heres my method of Fixing PhotoDraw AND Using Office
> 2007 Beta 2 at the same time:
>
> 1. Uninstall Office 2007 Beta 2
> 2. Uninstall Photodraw 2000 V2
> 3. Install office 2003, or earlier
> 4. Install Photodraw V2
> 5. Install Office 2007 - BUT DO NOT UPGRADE OLD OFFICE, select the
> option to leave current office intact and install for use next to it.
>
> Photodraw should then work. If anybody has the time to go through lots
> of code and reg entries to find the problem, a patch would be greatly
> apreciated for future use and I am sure Microsoft would give you a
> little bit of money on the side. I know I would... I much prefer
> Photodraw to Expression Graphics and Photoshop... i just don't have the
> time to add layer upon layer. ALSO Photodraw can do EVERYTHING
> Expression can ;)
>
> If you want any more support with stuff, you can find my site at
> www.lopezwebz.com
>
> fred wrote:
>
>

kafkaschimp

2006-09-24, 6:22 pm

There seems to be an inherent comflict between Outlook 12 (2007) and Office
2003/XP -including PhotoDraw. I kept my Office 2003/XP programs, except
Outlook, on my main computer. In addition to the PD problem, everytime Office
Update updated Office 2003 with Office 2007 Beta 2 loaded, Outlook 12 would
no longer open messages (and warned me of the problem) - something that is
fixed using the Repair option on Office 2007 setup. I don't know whether this
will happen in Beta 2 Technical Refresh, since I haven't updated Office 2003
since then - but perhaps it is significant that Outlook 11 is the only
OfficeXP/2003 program you can't keep when loading Office 2007.

"Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote:

> Having gotten a new notebook last Thursday it was the ideal time to play
> around.... Office 2003 + PhotoDraw v2 ... all worked perfectly. With the B2
> + TR, I upgraded ONLY Outlook. And bang, PhotoDraw was messed up totally.
> All other Office programs were left at 2003 level.
>
> Right now I'm UNINSTALLING Outlook 12 and much as I do actually prefer it to
> Outlook 11, I find PhotoDraw even more essential. So I'll use Office 12 on
> my 64 bit Test PC which runs Windows x64 and does all the beta testing...
> and stick with the older Office on my more everyday PCs. Such a shame.
>
> I do use PSP v7 and 8 for animated graphics, but for everyday, PhotoDraw
> still has them all beat. I don't even have to think when I use it.
>
> BTW It's a Toshiba P105-9132... Core Duo T2500 with 2gb of RAM and 256mb
> dedicated GeForce 7900 GS. Really nice piece of work. Just a shame it
> won't be using Office 12 really!
> --
> Cari (MS-MVP)
> Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging
> http://www.coribright.com/windows
>
> "Kirk Carpenter" <kirkc1@cox.net> wrote in message
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>
>

walter666

2006-09-24, 6:22 pm

> Does anyone know of such a program?

Real-Draw Pro (www.mediachance.com, about $55) does really cool text with
little effort. I highly recommend it to all those looking for a general PD2
replacement.

Cari $MS-MVP$

2006-09-24, 6:22 pm

Two versions of Outlook on any release of Office don't play nice together on
the same PC.
--
Cari (MS-MVP)
Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging
http://www.coribright.com/windows

"kafkaschimp" <kafkaschimp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> There seems to be an inherent comflict between Outlook 12 (2007) and
> Office
> 2003/XP -including PhotoDraw. I kept my Office 2003/XP programs, except
> Outlook, on my main computer. In addition to the PD problem, everytime
> Office
> Update updated Office 2003 with Office 2007 Beta 2 loaded, Outlook 12
> would
> no longer open messages (and warned me of the problem) - something that is
> fixed using the Repair option on Office 2007 setup. I don't know whether
> this
> will happen in Beta 2 Technical Refresh, since I haven't updated Office
> 2003
> since then - but perhaps it is significant that Outlook 11 is the only
> OfficeXP/2003 program you can't keep when loading Office 2007.
>
> "Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote:
>

Andre Da Costa [Extended64]

2006-11-05, 10:29 pm

I would try running PD in a Virtual Machine on a legacy version of Windows
such as 98 or 2000 which supports it well.
--
Andre
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Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre
http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Kirk Carpenter" <kirkc1@cox.net> wrote in message
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> Cari-
>
> Has the conflict between O12 and PDv2 been resolved with the release of
> the O12 Beta 2 Technical Refresh?
>
> Kirk
>
>
> "Cari (MS-MVP)" <Newsgroups1@coribright.com> wrote in message
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