Okay, I’m happier with the RC now. I discovered that one of the few things I didn’t like about the beta has been fixed, and it’s an important one. The drivers for my HP Officejet 6310 in the beta would not allow me to set the print quality. The option to choose Fast Draft was just gone, regardless of which drivers I used.  I was beginning to suspect it was an Evil HP Conspiracy designed to make me use up my ink cartridge faster. But in the RC, I have the ability to print fast drafts back again. Hurray! I don’t really print all that often anymore, but when I do, I usually don’t need super duper high quality. This makes up for most of the other stuff.

That’s especially true since I bit the bullet and bought CorelDraw x4, which has the newest version of PhotoPaint, which does work just fine on Windows 7. I know PhotoShop is everybody’s darling, but I just have always liked the PhotoPaint interface much better. Now I have it and the full functionality of my printer back. Things are looking up.

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