I start this post thinking about the request for a new version. Not only "corrections" but one more step: How do ypu chage CorelDRAW to develop a more powerful program? what kind of features, programs, tools, effects, dou you want? 3D features? Web design? page layout? not only "the same of other programs", but think on something differnte: what other programs can't do, and what CorelDRAW can do differente.
Hi.
Great and needed thread.
Throwing ideas around is great. I love even the unthought-out and frivolous ones too.
Remember to be realistic in what you think the end result can be. The more that is packed into the program, the slower and more buggy it will be.
Removing or simplifying parts of the program can be just as important in order to make room for new and better features.
Also remember that vba (macros) can add functionality to the CGS without adding much weight. So... if it can be done with vba then sometimes, that may be the best way to go.
-John
RunFlaCruiser said: Great and needed thread. Throwing ideas around is great. I love even the unthoughtful frivolous ones too.
Throwing ideas around is great. I love even the unthoughtful frivolous ones too.
I do not think any idea is frivolous or inferior to another, simply there are more useful proposals or less usable, there are changes deeper and more superficial. In my opinion, X6 should be a version of big changes, not simply add a couple of functions to the Blend tool, improve the spacing of the text and correct any errors. That's important, yes, but it is not fundamental.
The Blend and Extrusion were innovative and revolutionary ideas when they were born, but since version 2.0 from today are basically the same, have improved performance but remain almost the same. What I want is for the Extrusion is a real 3D vector effect. What I want is for the Extrusion is a real 3D vector effect. Corel 25-innovated with tools and effects that no one had, now has to do something similar. It is not copying what others already have, but offer something that other programs are NOT.
RunFlaCruiser said:Also remember that vba (macros) can add functionality to the CGS without adding much weight. So... if it can be done with vba then sometimes, that may be the best way to go.
I agree, I believe that Corel must add more support to VBA developers such as MacroMonster and OberonPlace, ie add a link to these websites from inside the Macros Docker. It is also possible to recommend some macros that are most useful, whether free or paid. Most people don't use the macros, simply because they don't know what can do .
When CorelDRAW did away with recording scripts and allowed for VBA macros, I was so annoyed, and realised that Corel didn't give a stuff about the end user. I am not a mathematician or programmer. What use are VBAs to the average ordinary designer? I would say none at all. Oh, and why should I be paying 3rd parties even more for add-ons?
Instead of pushing out a new version of CorelDRAW / PAINT each year, Corel Corp. should spend some time on listening to its customers, and getting the product stable and effective. I'm working with X3, and problems that DRAW had at the beginning have still not been resolved. Yet, each time a new version comes along, us fools pay hundreds of dollars for what? You can't even create a chart easily in DRAW. That was done away with, God knows how many versions back.
At the beginning of my career in design, I trained and worked on Dicamed's D80 Imaginator. I also worked extensively with Zenographics Mirage, which was brilliant in its day. Okay, things have changed and grown, and both had their limitations and flaws. The D80 Imaginator was so clever with grouping objects - something that CorelDRAW appears to be 1000 years behind. The Imaginator could group by numbers. An object or objects could be part of numerous groups. For example "group 87" and more. So if you needed to grab mutiple objects on the screen, you could simply use the puck to select by "group - 87". Some of the same objects may have been part of "group - 88" - no limits. Saved images recorded all this data too.
CorelDRAW cannot do anything similar, and to select objects with different shapes, colours, outlines etc, is like being on a mission impossible.
So let's see Corel bring:
I know that a change to Adobe will be costly, but I currently feel so disenchanted and cheated. I'm not the only loyal Corel supporter considering a move.