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Summary: CorelDraw, easier to learn, + more features than Illustrator
Review: Coreldraw is more affordable, easier to learn, and has more tools and capabilities than Illustrator. Once I tried to do extrusions on Illustrator, only to find out that this program does not do extrusions. CorelDraw does extrusions. Adobe charges a higher price for their product but gives fewer tools and features than Corel. Adobe wants you to go out and pay extra for the same features that comes standard on CorelDraw.
Illustrator does not have the ability to allow one to scan in an image. Separate scanning software is required. Corel has built in the scanning utility right into CorelDraw.
Adobe's Photoshop is a great product for photo and pixel based work, but CorelDraw is number one as far as vector-based illustration software goes.
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Summary: A Disaster
Review: From the uninspiring package (I wonder if this package was designed with Adobe Illustrator just like CorelDRAW 10's was?) to the clunky performance, CorelDRAW 11 just doesn't impress. Sure it's got lots of clipart, but this does not make up for the poor text handling, humungous file sizes, and the ever-so-slow speed (redraw times are particulary snail-like). Plus, it crashes a little too much for my liking.Bottom line is, industry-standard Adobe still does everything better than Corel, so why bother adopting a new learning curve for inferior results?
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Summary: CorelDraw 11 Rocks!
Review: I don't know what the other users were smoking when they wrote their reviews. I use CorelDraw 11 extensively with complex multi-layered projects mixing massive bitmap files, text, and vector graphics and it works flawlessly! There is no better program for layout and graphics. I've used CorelDraw since Version 3 and each version keeps getting better (except for version 6 which had some severe file-bloat problems). Of course, you do have to have the horsepower to run it right: I have an AMD XP2600 CPU with 1 GB of RAM and an NVidia 128 MB graphics card running Windows 2000 Professional. However, I run it at work on a 1.5 GHz Intel Pentium 4 with 512 MB of RAM and Windows 2000 Professional and it runs fine, too, if a bit slower.
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Summary: Expensive, buggy and not better as Corel 10
Review: Some say Corel 11 has less bugs then the version before. Do not belive that lie! I am using it since 7 days and it has many bugs:
- it still hangs on sometimes
- there is a copy and paste bug. If u have a file open for a while Corel "forgets" how to copy. U can try but it doesnt work in Corel (all other programs still can copy - only in Corel can't).
- I am using a 1.8 Ghz machine and it seems to be mutch too slow!
Its usefull, but don't spend money for upgrading to corel 11!
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