Would like to know when will the CorelDRAW Mac 2019 updates be available?
I hope the sluggish performance will be addressed soon.
Durban, what kind of work do you do. I do everything, but large format print, large architectural signage, donor walls, high end color correcting for architectural promotional magazines and trade booths on a scale that Adobe and Affinity cannot handle are my stock and trade.
I tried Affinity Designer but found that it was insufficiently robust, it simply couldn't handle large files, many projects from my clients start in Illustrator and they bring it to me when AI edits start taking15 to 20 minutes each. Affinity Photo has nothing for me that I don't already have with Photo-PAINT and PaintShop Pro. I never tested Affinity Photo with 500 mb to 1.5 gb image files. Will it do 1.5 gb files
oh... we forgot that corel draw is the BEST for the sign market ;)
david, pepole are not crazy, i am not intresting in a debate here, but adobe illustrator is the standard, and EVERYBODY are using it! corel draw user base gets smaller and smaller, and the customer satisfaction with the program is very low, and in the same time there is a program affinity that gets more and more populer... if coreldraw will not do something immediatly (to make the next program super stable like affinity and to make the program productive and up to date - not that every second feature crashes with the other, drop shadow with countour, power clip with all effects, etc, etc, etc), the end of corel draw is neer.
Mike Billy yes people are crazy! :-) People still buy and use MAC computers can you believe it? :-) All jokes aside the MAC is AMD and XEON based, even their Intel based systems use AMD video for the most part, configurations that Corel has always had issues with.
If you want an argument about CorelDRAW and the monumental screw up called the 2019 release you're barking up the wrong tree.
I'm simply trying to see where Affinity would fit into my workflow. I posted the kind of work I do. Does Affinity fit there? I've been in graphics since 1975 and I'm not interested in being a starving artist.
Web work in my area is being done at poverty level wages by the 45 and under crowd. There are hardly any print shops in my area anymore and those that exist are STRUGGLING to survive so no work there.
In my area basic wide and grand format is being done by the franchise and the hard of thinking crowd. Then the commercial sign industry is in a crap hole due to the slow painful death of retail and corporate reliance on very cheap construction.
So I do architectural work because it requires a brain, you have to know how to do things and I can charge for that ability. Adobe, Corel, Autodesk and other software all have shortcoming, knowing where they are and making a configuration that is profitable.
It's not about what program has this quick and easy feature so I can knock out tons of art work for next to nothing for each piece. It's usually about fixing some artists screw up and taking a $50,000 project and getting it done on time within budget and increasing my margins from 25% to 55%.
So it's engineer drawings, light dispersal drawings, mechanical drawings, art mock ups, proofing and interfacing with a dozen different applications and mechanical processes that actually allow me to make real money.
So the question begs, where does Affinity fit into that?