"What OS Do you run Corel Photopaint 8 on ?"

 XP. A quick search shows problems with Win 7 and a possible fix - may work for 8 too YMMV.

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"After the crash, I found a mention of MFC42 by looking at the System Event Log. (Windows-7 is reluctant to tell you the error messages directly.)

I dug up a pre-Windows-7/Vista version of MFC42.DLL from another app on my computer, copied it into the same folder as the Corel executable, and voila, Photo-Paint now works. Yay"

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PP is fast. stable and does most everything I need and I'm too hooked on the interface to have patience with anything else. The only drawback is that it doesn't support many PhotoShop filters and no actions. I can use some filters in my graphics viewer (XNview).  PS-CS2 might be nice for the occasional technique I see without having to try to translate to PP. Still, I'd probably get Premier first :-)

I see that poor Terri is working overtime trying to keep the Adobe forums from turning into RendoWars. I wonder if this flap will do aything to Corel's stock price, since they probably own a big chunk of of the poor man's PhotoShop market with PP and PSP. Even an old version of PP might cut into their sales, IF Adobe stops trying to say that they did it but they didn't inhale.  

 

 

 

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