It is now July and I still do not see any new bug fixes to correct the multitude of issues with this latest design of CorelDraw 2019. I have every current update installed and am wondering if the new owners(a hedge fund) even care about quality? I know I would definitely want to have people who use my products to be able to give glowing recommendations, but with 2019 it is becoming difficult to recommend it to my peers. While there have always been issues with Corel, particularly exporting as an EPS file, for the most part, the design aspects have performed as expected. But now there are a bunch of issues that make it difficult to convert to and I find I have to continue using 2018 to get reliable production done. This is the worst upgrade I have ever purchased from Corel and they should be ashamed they released it with it being so buggy! Any news on updates would be appreciated because I feel they sold me a lemon, and worse they keep dropping the upgrade price without any fixes available which have me concerned that they don't intend to fix it.
I do not deny that there are some problems in CorelDRAW 2019, particularly speed. In fact, there are bugs in all versions, the difference is that some may be relevant to you and the others pass unnoticed, as they do not affect your daily work.
I work with CorelDARW 2019 every day without problems, although I notice that particular font handling is not as fast as in previous versions.
What are the most important problems for you?
The find/replace still sucks, even after the second update. This makes my work incredibly slow and tedious, since I now have to replace colors manually. I can't seem to get the program to remember my default settings, although I'm constantly resetting and telling the program to use as default. The graphic issues are incredibly annoying, having the screen freeze while you're working on something. I find this version bulky and difficult to work with. At least they fixed the object manager so now I can get details on the fills/outlines. I could go on...
From what I am figuring out is that Corel changed a lot of features but it seems, as usual, didn't provide sufficient documentation on how to achieve things as we use to do.
What I earlier considered buggy behavior is just that they did things differently and you have to figure out what the new way is in order to get it to work. For instance, if you want to use apply bitmap effect VBA with certain effects in CorelDRAW 2018 you have to first have photo paint active or else the macro will not work properly even though you can apply it just fine directly from CorelDraw.
What I have found out is you can directly apply it from CorelDraw 2019 without having to activate PP. I have not tried them all but I did try a few and so far so good.
If they would properly document the syntax needed or how to achieve certain goals in the program they would have a lot happier customers than they do at this juncture of the 2019 rollout. Of course, they still need to fix the x and y coordinate issue I have.
CorelUser2911 said:What I earlier considered buggy behavior is just that they did things differently and you have to figure out what the new way is in order to get it to work.
Any software update that makes you do that is a major FAIL IMO. Software developers that don't understand how the software is used. Some of the changes are just stupid and serve no useful purpose, the worst (I bet someone else will list their worst!) is the Options. Yes the old dialogs were ugly and cut off some info but they had everything in one place. Now we have to go into and out of 5 different options sets to find what we're looking for. This is just utter stupidity on Corels part and someone should get fired for suggesting it was kept in even though testers railed against it mightily.
I agree with your assessment of the situation. It is hardly beneficial if you must relearn the software with every upgrade, also their lack of documentation is disappointing! Their API guides are ok in CorelDraw and a joke in Photopaint. Learning CQL is difficult just not enough examples to help understand it. I just have to use trial and error.