I also use CorelDraw since version 8. Never had problems either. I FULLY agree with you that it depends who use which ever program. Some people like Adobe (which I don’t), and others like Corel. It takes a professional PERSON to be able to create a work of art – not a fancy smanchy looking program.

but for layers ps ultimate.

Coreldraw and related programs are more than enough for any casual user and will do
just nicely for the professional.

I am a new user to Adobe AI and Photoshop. Other than some tools and filters that corel
does not have, it doesn’t impress me.

I have run into a number of problems and issues with the Adobe products, even after the
limited time I have been using it.

And judging from the internet sites ( including Adobe’s ) it would seem that it is just
as buggy and has just as many issues as any other software.

The exception being the prices Adobe charges for their crap. And the drooling Adobe
fans that seem to place Adobe on a Apple made pedestal.

There are free and shareware programs that in the hands of a professional can do most
anything you need to do. It may take you a little more effort…but you can do it.

That’s what usually makes the difference between a professional and…….. an Adobe
products user.

Illustrator prior to CS3 was downright unusable. After purchase of Macromedia, and incorporating some of that Freehand spirit into Illustrator it became quite a decent piece of vector editing software.

My 2c are as follows:
- In down-to-detail bezier curve editing Corel PWNZ AI in every aspect
- It also kicks it’s ass primo on aspect of curve combination, in Corel, there is a definite primitive of bezier path (bezigon) that everything can be recombined to, pathfinder is nowhere near as powerful — although it has upperhand of allowing subsequent editing of parts that make up combined path.
- When it comes to effects, Illustrator bitmap based effects like drop shadow, blur et al make artwork design much simpler, corel is both slow, memory hungry and requires “freezing” artwork to bitmaps for most of that to work. If they did this the AI way in X6 (as it’s too late for X5) they’d rock
- AI bitmap output is superior (their antialias is topnotch, whereas Corel still makes blurry unfocused output) and prepress results are neater, but Corel is more powerfull in both regards.

Both are CPU hogs, bloated monsters with tons of useless shit inbetween few useful functions, and both are equally shitty when it comes to stability but if I had to chose just one tool it would be Corel because you can get EVERYTHING done with it, and off course, there is the price factor as well.

The only two reasons why Corel is still bashed by design snobs are:

- Design snobs are mostly Mac snobs and Adobe WAS from planet mac, whereas Corel is more of a windows company, Adobe will probably dump Apple sooner or later because of business politics so it will soon change
- It’s cheaper so design snobs who are Mac snobs, naturally assume that when you pay the premium for turd it automagicaly turns to gold — just as they assume when buying computers.

Just because pros hate it when newbies make unprintable junk in CorelDraw and hand it to them as “flight checked” and ready for printing, doesn’t mean it’s any easier or harder to do the same in Illustrator. In fact, if you don’t know what you’re doing it’s easy to make unprintable junk in any piece of software.

One of the cool niches where CorelDraw really kicks butt is in the vinyl-sign-cutter and custom-embroidery-stitching design world. (check out Embroidery software DRAWings X3 based on CorelDraw) If you need a corporate logo for printing, signs, decals, and custom corporate apparel with embroidered logo designs, Corel kicks Adobe all around the block.

Warren

I prefer Corel Draw over Adobe’s InDesign CS3.

I need to know today if all possible. I’m making a decision to purchase X4 being it’s on sale till the end of this week.

thanks,

glenn

~ €300 is too much for a self-employed person who only uses it occasionally…