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PSPX9 - New User - Couple Questions

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I purchased the DVD boxed edition of PaintShop Pro X9 ultimate a couple of days ago from a local retailer and now have a couple minor questions. First, though, I should mention that I have (to save money) started discontinuing unneeded and rarely used services. One of those rarely used services is my ISP, among others (*cough* adobe). Several factors make home internet a waste of money for me: I don't spend a lot of time at home (usually 8 or less hours a day) and I am paying for other services that provide similar functionality (sprint :x ).

My main question/concern relates to templates. The menu option (file > new from template) and the toolbar button (new from template) are greyed out/disabled. My search has turned up many tutorials buy not a solution. Are templates one of the "online features" the box's side mentions? If not, how do I enable/activate the menu option and toolbar button?

The "materials" palette seems to be two columns. The swatches, map, and sliders in one column and the foreground/background stroke/fill in another column. With the materials palette docked to the right side of the screen; if I decrease the size of the docking area the "materials" palette begins to shrink until only the stroke/fill boxes are visible. Is there any way to place the foreground stroke/background fill below the swatches/hsl map/sliders?

Finally (for now at least), I noticed a menu option titled "user guide (pdf)" under "help". With the assistance of "customize"; I see "view or download the corel paintshop pro user guide". This indicates that I can view the file from the local hard disk if it is placed in the proper directory structure. If I download the pdf while I'm here at work; where does the file need to be place to enable "user guide (pdf)" to launch the user guide?

Oh, I'd also like to say that I'm rather liking pspx9. I like the ui especially. Every thing seems to be where I'd expect it to be (menu, tool bar buttons, ect.). Out of the box it installs and runs without the obligatory phone home. Astonishing for today's software.
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Re: PSPX9 - New User - Couple Questions

Post by LeviFiction »

Yes, Templates are an online feature. Currently they point to Corel's online store.

As far as I know the only way to get the foreground and background boxes to appear at the bottom, is to increase the height of the materials palette.

The "Userguide PDF'" as far as I know actually goes to a webpage and with most modern browsers the guide will simply render in the browser "view" or you can download it to your harddrive from that location and open it manually. "Download"
If you just select "Help Topics" it'll open up the local version of the help documentation in Internet Explorer. It's the exact same content as the User Guide PDF but in a webpage format. When online it'll direct you to the online version, while offline it'll open the local version of the help topics.

Quick note, if you are using any other language than English for the UI you'll have to download the extra help documentation from their patches page. I think. Not sure if that's needed with the DVD copy or not.
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Re: PSPX9 - New User - Couple Questions

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Thanks for the reply. That answered my questions.

BTW, the DVD does come with additional languages; its an option during install.

thanks again.
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