As usual over the last couple decades, it only takes me seconds to find bugs and problems with latest Corel release. 2020 is no exception. The behavior of the pen tool is awful. I don't remember if it was always that awful, of if this is new. I select the pen tool and just start drawing a shape. I go back over the line that I'm drawing and place a node on a random place on the line. Here is where it fails instantly. I hold control, grab that node and move it's position. Then I press undo......nothing happens....I press undo 10 more times and nothing happens. So I hit the escape key, or click on the artboard, then press undo again and now it's working. I repeat this set of steps a few more times in order to be sure of what I'm seeing and the steps that are required to do it.
Furthermore, when using the pen tool, the pen tool unexpectedly changes form pen to some kind of node selector tool. What I expect to happen is that I can switch to such a tool by holding the Control key or some key modifier. But what Coreldraw is doing is, it is switching to that tool on it's own. So, I'm holding the pen tool, and I'm needing the pen tool because I want to place a node on the line, but it can't because Coreldraw has arbitrarily switched to a node selection or editor tool. In order to get the pen tool back, it seems that I must click multiple times on the line and get completely out of the flow of what I was actually doing. This behavior is unbelievably bad for software that professionals need to rely on for a living.
I found all of that within the first 1 minute of installing the demo. I wonder if I should check to see if some of the traditionally broken stuff has been fixed in this release. It would be shocking if it has.
If I keep looking, I'm going to find many more bugs.
KuttyJoe said:The comment I made about how even bugs can be explained away as "not too bad" is perfectly illustrated in your response here.
Wrong. I agreed that it should work = the bug should be fixed.For me personally though, it is not a bug that affects me and I don't think I have even noticed before, that's why it's no big deal to me.Regarding the extra click to get back to the Pen tool, that's how it is designed.Being able to let go of Ctrl and still continue in node editing mode is important, for reasons already mentioned, so the click to return is needed.The fact that it suddenly goes out of node editing is most likely a bug though.
Honestly Ronny Axelsson, if you're happy with it then that's fine with me. You really could just ignore all of my bug comments since "they don't effect you personally".
KuttyJoe said:I never use the pen tool since it's inferior to Illustrator even if it's working the way it's supposed to work.
If you say so.I have tried to get used to Illustrator's Pen tool several times over the years (haven't upgraded since CS5 though so I may have missed something) but have not been impressed at all.I like Draw's implementation though, despite it being "inferior".Maybe it depends on what Pen tool you learn first, and what features you prefer?
You obviously don't read, or don't want to understand.I acknowledged in previous post that two of the things you brought up were bugs, and in one place also that I thought it should be fixed.The fact that things don't work the same in Draw as they do in Illustrator don't automatically make them bugs, and as a matter of fact, most of us here don't want things to work that way.
KuttyJoe said: I select the pen tool and just start drawing a shape. I go back over the line that I'm drawing and place a node on a random place on the line.
Exactly how are you "going back over the line"? You still using the pen tool at this point or switching to the shape tool then adding the node?