I tried version 7 once on my XP machine, no direct problem at all.But why not just use the software that comes with your Scanner. If you have a fairly new scanner, it has its own button for scanning. When Scanner ask which program to use to image adjust, then just choose Photo-Paint. Or just save the image directly in a folder on your computer.So just scan the image, without going via Twain in CorelDraw/photo-paint 7. And then when its scanned you just open/import the image with either Photo-Paint or CorelDRAW.
In 1987, Corel hired software engineers Michel Bouillon and Pat Beirne to develop a vector-based illustration program to bundle with their desktop publishing systems. That program, CorelDRAW, was initially released in 1989. CorelDRAW 1.x and 2.x runs under Windows 2.x and 3.0. CorelDRAW 3.0 came into its own with Microsoft's release of Windows 3.1. The inclusion of TrueType in Windows 3.1 transformed CorelDRAW into a serious illustration program capable of using system-installed outline fonts without requiring third-party software such as Adobe Type Manager; paired with a photo editing program (PhotoPaint), a font manager and several other pieces of software, it was also part of the first all-in-one graphics suite.
The first book devoted to CorelDRAW was Mastering CorelDRAW by Chris Dickman, published by Peachpit Press in 1990, with a contribution by Rick Altman. Dickman also founded and published the independent Mastering CorelDRAW Journal publication, and created and ran the first site dedicated to CorelDRAW, CorelNET.com, from 1995 to 1997.
In December 2006 the sK1 open source project team started to reverse-engineer the CDR format.[12] The results and the first working snapshot of the CDR importer were presented at the Libre Graphics Meeting 2007 conference taking place in May 2007 in Montreal (Canada).[13] Later on the team parsed the structure of other Corel formats with the help of the open source CDR Explorer.[14] As of 2008, the sK1 project claims to have the best import support for CorelDRAW file formats among open source software programs. The sK1 project developed also the UniConvertor, a command line open source tool which supports conversion from CorelDRAW ver.7-X3,X4 formats (CDR/CDT/CCX/CDRX/CMX) to other formats. UniConvetor is also used in Inkscape and Scribus open source projects as an external tool for CorelDraw files importing.[15][16][17]
