Is corel draw x4 supporting Mac OS 10.5........?
The short answer is no. The long answer is difficult, however as an output provider since the beginning of time today I'm seeing fewer and fewer MAC files in my work. As IT support we are seeing Apple laptops being used quite a bit but they are only running Windows on them.
Thanks for ur kind reply sir. But if I want to buy corel draw for MAX OS 10.5 which is the most suitable one & will it be available in the ASIAN markets...?
To be able to use CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 on a Macintosh computer, you have two options.
Either you use the BootCamp feature that comes with MacOS 10.5 and install Windows XP / Windows Vista on a separate partition. The other option is for you to use a Virtual Machine software (VMWare Fusion is the one I would recommend for this). A Virtual Machine enables you to run Windows XP / Vista within a Window on your Mac.
In both cases (BootCamp or Virtual Machine), you will need to have a license of MS Windows.
Gérard
Thankyou sir thankyou verymuch this will definitely solve my problem.
Hello Gerard,
do you know if a future version of CGS for Apple Computers will be released some day?
Greetings, Jens
All I can tell is that Corel has not announced any plans to have a Mac version in the future.
Gérard,
I have used MS products for some thirty years, but now that I have finally moved everything to Macs, I am totally enjoying the experience. The thought of introducing Windows to my Mac platform completely negates the reason I left Microsoft Windows in the first place. I own older versions of Corel Draw for my old PCs, but I don't use them any more. I would like to, but, a decision by Corel, long ago, to forgo a Mac port was made. At the time, I believe your decision was prudent, but that was at least six years ago. A lot has happened in those six years. More to the point, it is today that a look at the future of computing should be reexamined.
Apple has been on a steady upswing in market share in the desktop format for some time now. The +$1000.00 laptop format has Apple claiming 90% of that market. All of this has been happening during one of the most serious economic time periods in history.
It appears the global marketplace is starting to make a positive shift, and I'm sure we all hope this trend continues. My point is that, if Apple has been able to make these strides in this market, then it stands to reason that they will continue this growth pattern in the days and years to come.
Is Corel reactionary, or proactive? Is Corel content to capitulate to Adobe in the Mac market? This is not the Apple of old, so don't stand on your decisions of old, thinking that they are still relevant today.
Here's hoping that Corel realizes that they can be competitive and profitable in the Mac market.
Al
Al said: Is Corel reactionary, or proactive? Is Corel content to capitulate to Adobe in the Mac market? This is not the Apple of old, so don't stand on your decisions of old, thinking that they are still relevant today. Here's hoping that Corel realizes that they can be competitive and profitable in the Mac market.
I totally agree with you.
FosterCoburn said:The answer is quite simple, there was so few Mac sales that it wasn't justified to develop new Mac versions.
The answer is not so simple. I know several companies that still use CorelDRAW 11 on Mac, altough uses CorelDRAW X4 under PC and there's no real way to know how much CorelDRAW 11 users have isntalled the program on Mac on both systems. Mac is a small marketplace ( recently, their sales increases from 4.5% to 5.2% of the total marketplace) but is a very special marketplace for professional graphic design.If the problem were only the small marketplace, you can't explain why Corel develop a Mac version for Painter. The answer is obvious, CorelPainter works fine on Mac and is a success, but CorelDRAW never worked fine on Mac as native program.
The problem is more complex, is not only about to want to develop a new version, also is about the software compatibilities (ie, the .NET framework, Visual Basic and Visual Studio, etc) and the company policies. Altough the v.11.0 was "the same installation" for Mac and Windows, the results was not the same. bitstream FontNavigator doesn't manage Mac fonts, then don't auto-install it when you open a document. You can't use the VBA macros, one of the more useful and powerful options of CorelDRAW. Most of the commands are different because it causes conflict with Mac OS shortcuts. So, you will use a half or less of the CorelDRAW power, and you have a slow and porr software, if you compare the same with the Windows version.
If CorelDRAW comes to Mac, must develop a new, totally new native Mac OS X version. Older CorelDRAW for Mac are the Windows software translated to Mac (I remember the v.8.0 for Mac, a nightmare) but don't works fine. But develop a new and powerful CorelDRAW for Mac requires a lot of time, effort and money, and sounds logical to use this resources to create a powerful and stable Windows version before move to the dark side.
<Ariel> wrote in message news:70344@coreldraw.com... ...sounds logical to use this resources to create a powerful and stable Windows version before move to the dark side.
...sounds logical to use this resources to create a powerful and stable Windows version before move to the dark side.
Jeff Harrison said: Now here's a provocative question: Would Apple even exist today if they hadn't created the ipod? In spite of massive income from ipods which can be used to support their computer division, Macs still represent a small percentage of computer users overall. Perhaps nature has spoken.
I use the PC because it has a future. Nature has spoken, if the MAC was as good as MAC user profess there would be no stopping it. With that said no one was more disappointed when Apple went to Intel based hardware and failed to offer any real alternative to Windows.
Here are the major technical shortcomings that I see that Apple failed to address.
1. 100% font compatibility
2. A true reliable secure network, ( I rely on my network guys for this and they say that they hack Apple all the time)
3. Customer service, no real OS upgrades for years, when a customer of mine bought a laptop and complained of 2nd degree burns on his legs the only thing Apple did was to designate the laptop to a portable instead of a laptop. He bought a laptop that Apple now calls a portable and tells you NOT to use it on your lap.
4. A forked file system
5. Serial file access
When I speak of using a PC instead of a MAC for me it's pure business. In my field print shops are in decline, 10% to 15% a year, every shop has one or more MACs. With more graphics moving to in house digital PC use in graphics is growing exponentially.
It's simple do I want to fish in the pod that has fewer fish every day or the pond where the fish population is growing?
Due to the cost of supporting the Apple platform I made a decision this Summer that I no longer support native MAC files, I take PDF files only from the MAC. This after all is business and in this economy I'm not spending the extra money to support a platformthat feels they have to be different.
Jeff Harrison said:"dark side"... heh heh.
Remember that the Corellians are part important on the technology on StarWars, the homeworld of Han Solo and the Millennium Falcon. We, the Corel Jedi, are the Light Side of the Force
Jeff Harrison said:Now here's a provocative question: Would Apple even exist today if they hadn't created the ipod?
I'm no doubt about the answer: yes. Mac is a lifestyle more than a computer. Like Harley-Davidson, Ferrari and other companies. But the return of Steve Jobs changes all, the iMac, iPod, iPhone, iTunes, the OS X...
Jeff Harrison said:So... my point is this: the people that insist that mac's are the greatest computers ever, are they speaking primarily based on technical merits or because they like the way the curvy & futuristic hardware looks? Or also how the O/S looks?
Mac is the best computer on all sides. Powerful and beauty. You enjoy when using this computer, both for their beauty and their power. Of course is expensive, but if you see the differences you can understand that is not the same. With Windows 32-bits you can't use 4 Gb of RAM or assign mor than 2 Gb of memory of each program, you need the 64-bits version in order to use more than 4 Gb of RAM. A Mac Pro comes with 32 Gb of RAM, 4 Terabytes of hard disk, and you don't have hardware or software issues for this...
Ariel said:Mac is the best computer on all sides. Powerful and beauty. You enjoy when using this computer, both for their beauty and their power. Of course is expensive, but if you see the differences you can understand that is not the same. With Windows 32-bits you can't use 4 Gb of RAM or assign mor than 2 Gb of memory of each program, you need the 64-bits version in order to use more than 4 Gb of RAM. A Mac Pro comes with 32 Gb of RAM, 4 Terabytes of hard disk, and you don't have hardware or software issues for this...
Ok let's for the sake of argument say we all agree on your above points. Then why is the MAC so unpopular?
Ariel said:the iMac, iPod, iPhone, iTunes, the OS X...
With all of this why do Apple product languish at such a sales level as we currently see?
I'm not trying to start an argument, I'm trying to understand what went wrong with Apple.
From my perspective all of their products are faulty, iMAC (lousy computer underpowered), iPOD viruses, my sons wife lost all her music, iPhone of all the phones known to be vulnerable to SMS viruses only Apple did nothing to repair the situation, iTunes, I make more money fixng systems with iTunes installed then any other single non-graphic software.