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.
After playing with 2019 some more on the programming side, I have noticed that 2019 does somethings really well that hang in 2018, but it does other things really poorly that works great in 2018.
Still, I haven't heard anything about an update to address the problems that are inherent in this latest release, but they still are pushing it mighty heavily. It is sad because Corel could be great software, except it seems it has forgotten about the users and seem more motivated by profits alone. Hopefully, the new owners will address these issues.
CorelUser2911 said:After playing with 2019 some more on the programming side, I have noticed that 2019 does somethings really well that hang in 2018, but it does other things really poorly that works great in 2018.
From the perspective of coding:
I have found 2019 to be significantly faster than 2018 for some text handling operations carried out by a macro.
I have a few macros that use "on screen curves", and find that 2019 really messes up the display of those, which makes the macros harder to use - grrrr!
For me, when I programmed a blend option in 2018 it worked great unless I made the blend go directly up or directly down, then this would hang and potentially crash the program. But if I operated the same macro in 2019 it worked flawlessly. I also noticed that the text handling was improved in my macros but the curve handling depending on what I am doing does get a little wacky.
I wonder if that doesn't have something to do with the "non-destructive" nature they incorporated with CorelDraw and if it doesn't work against the macro coding?