Talk:CorelDRAW

hi, i love coreldraw. i'm from spain. this program is very best program i used. i so lot thank you for making this program. i make pictures every day with this program. i like it really very much. i tell that to wikipedia. this is best site in the internet. i look at it every day. i so lot thank you for making this site too. there is lot of knowledge on this site i love.

good bye, HULIO — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.85.49.175 (talk • contribs) 27. apr 2004 kl. 08:19 (UTC)

Hi, i hate CorelDraw. This app is one of the most awful pieces of junk that I was ever forced to use in college. I could never run it for more than a few minutes without a crash. As my teacher used to say, "save every minute to avoid headaches". Gee, teacher, how about simply using a better app? Adobe Illustrator, maybe? I don't intend to ever give Corel another chance, because I'm sure it would be a waste of time, and there are similar apps that could be a suitable replacement. EazyDraw, maybe...

I do not agree that CorelDraw is that bad. Their only problem is that you cannot send your document to a printshop if you did it in CorelDraw. I work as a visual designer, I used CorelDraw since version 2.0, and I can tell you that if you call a printshop and say the word "Corel", the next word you usually hear is a dial tone... even before you had the time to say "Draw". I do not blame print shops. They protect themselves because the thing is CorelDraw is only mostly compatible with itself from version to version. If you are very lucky to find a print shop that will accept CorelDraw files, there are good chances they are not using the exact same version as you (there are so many). Then, what will happen is the file that looks good on your PC will be different at the print shop. Those differences are usually very subtle, like a line missing at the bottom of page 7 or an alignment that stretched your line like crazy at page 21 or a lens that didn't work correctly at page 34 so, the print shop, thinking everything is fine, will print 10000 copies and bill you. When you will find out that your 10000 copies are wrong, you will refuse to pay. After all, it is not your fault. Then the print shop will not accept that you don't pay. After all, it is not his fault. Let say your 10000 copies have many coated color pages and cost 2$ each, simple math will reveal you how loud both of you will yell. Hint: Corel will not accept the blame neither. At the end, the print shop or you will lose a lot of time and money and both will end up saying: "I will never use CorelDraw again! I should have listen to that guy who told me to buy a mac!". That will mean one less printshop accepting Corel files ... sad ... so rare! It is too bad because CorelDraw has a very good editor (I personnaly love it, really) and it is very good for your kids to print a birthday cards at home using templates and clip arts but with a price tag of 379$ ... you can buy a lot of hallmark cards. 207.35.240.157 00:16, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Would it be non-objective to say in the article that CorelDraw has a terrible reputation of being pathetically crash-prone? Stormwatch 05:43, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

As long as you leave terrible and pathetically out :) –Mysid 18:15, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Corel Draw World Design Contest, and ad or useful contribution?

It seems that Gregori Robinson (the man and the user: ""Robinson, an artist and film maker, can be reached at studio55@sympatico.ca"") is using this article as an ad for his work, so i propose that the text added to the "Characteristic features" sections must be deleted or classified in another article, or at least section of this article

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Diegoaac (talk • contribs) 01:38, 11 March 2007 (UTC).

Agreed, I removed the text he added. –mysid☎ 14:58, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Corel R.A.V.E.- Should It Be Added Here?

Corel R.A.V.E. (Real Animated Vector Effects) is the vector-based animation application which comes bundled as part of the CorelDRAW Graphics Suite (starting in version 10). It is capable of creating interactive object-based animations and movies for the Web.Th emovies can be exported as Macromedia Flash (SWF), GIF animations, AVI movies for Windows, and QuickTime formats. Corel R.A.V.E., one of the three primary applications in the CorelDraw 10 Graphics Suite, is not sold on its own. As an added value to the popular drawing program, R.A.V.E. (Real Animated Vector Effects) lets users dabble with SWF output, but its limited support of interactive elements makes it unsuitable for serious Flash developers.R.A.V.E.'s best features come from CorelDraw, and its drawing and layout tools are extremely powerful. In addition to geometric shapes, including perfect polygons, it has free-form drawing and Bezier editing tools. You can create visually complex artwork, such as soft drop-shadows, contoured edges, and gradient transparencies, with interactive formatting tools simply by dragging the appropriate tool to an object. And functions such as Group, Combine, and Intersect create custom vector outlines. To build animations in R.A.V.E., you sequence objects and insert keyframes on a timeline. Many of the program's effects and high-end illustration functions can be animated (you can change the angle of a drop shadow to simulate the sun's movement, for example). Other sophisticated effects include animating a blend to transform one object into another and animating a clipping path.As movies increase in complexity, R.A.V.E. begins to show shortcomings. For example, synchronizing animation effects across multiple elements is difficult, because there is no direct way to copy keyframe values from one object to another. And though the timeline lets you organize a complex composition with layers, you can't use it to manage a lengthy movie with scenes. In addition, there are very few ways to build interactivity into a R.A.V.E. movie. The rollover effects are excellent; a special editing window lets you change—and even animate—the up, over, and down states for a button. But you can assign only one of two actions to a button: Either play a sound or go to a URL.

R.A.V.E. does not give you the ability to include navigation controls (such as Go to frame) or cuing mechanisms (such as Play audio) in your movie. This limitation is especially problematic for audio elements. Synchronizing a sound track to a movie is difficult without commands to start or stop audio playback. The R.A.V.E. manual suggests stretching or shortening the audio duration to match movie length, but this distorts the pitch, which can produce ridiculous results. R.A.V.E. imports a wide variety of file formats, letting you incorporate just about any raster or vector image into an animation. We also like the export options, which include video formats such as AVI and MOV. When generating an SWF file, R.A.V.E. lets you set the JPEG compression level for raster images, prevent the file from being edited, and generate an HTML page that references the Flash movie. Before exporting, R.A.V.E. presents you with a list of potential problems. Most frequently, vector objects will be rasterized, because Corel's unique special effects are not supported by SWF. This can increase file size a little or a lot, depending on whether the effect has been animated. In our testing, R.A.V.E. had trouble converting its complex internal shapes into the simpler curves Flash requires. For example, the clipping path of a rotated bitmap displayed incorrectly in the final SWF file.(please feel free to use this after suitable edits.)--asydwaters 05:57, 9 January 2006 (UTC) ÚÓ[[]]

Corel Draw - Graphics Suit Submergence here.

Yes.I think with the version 10 onwards Corel has been realeasing all its Draw suites as Graphic Suites consisting of Corel Draw,Corel Photopaint and R.A.V.E.--asydwaters 14:50, 18 February 2006 (UTC) In my opinion Corel Draw is quite a useful tool as its application and user base in DTP is quite large.--asydwaters 14:50, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

CorelDRAW versus Illustrator

Is there any data available on the popularity of the two applications? Online, it seems like Illustrator vastly dominates, but in the traditional print world, CorelDRAW seems to still have a good handle. I used it previously at a company that did a lot of CNC work... QuinnHK 21:16, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

I'd like to know this, also. I cannot understand the general hype over illustrator. My company has just moved me from corel draw x3 to illustrator cs3 (because it is a more of an industry standard) and I feel like I've been kicked back into last century. Corel was crisp, flexible, fast and had far superior control over illustrator as well as having many more useful and time-saving features. I can't understand why Illustrator is still the 'standard' tool when it is 3 times the price and 1/10th as useful as corel draw. Lets move forward from the whole "graphic designer = MAC + photoshop +illustrator" thing...

Screenshot? XP or Vista?

Looks like the sreenshot of coreldraw was running on windows vista, although it says its running in WinXP. The screenshot filename even has the word vista in it. Please somebody confirm this, becuase i cant although i think i was taken in WinVista... Djsonik 19:14, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

It was taken in XP. Confirmed by looking at window frame. — Alex ^(T|C|E) 03:56, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Corel Graphics Suite here?

Is it logical on your standpoint that CorelGraphics Suite is a paragraph of the CorelDRAW article? I think it makes no sense and it should be the contrary. Would you agree to create a page for Corelgraphics suite and leave here just the info striclty related to CorelDRAW?Luca Mauri 16:10, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

hi,i am from amritsar.I have just started learning CORELDRAW i found it really very interesting and useful too.THANKS