Who does trial software work for?

This trial software of 15 or 30 days as it currently is engineered DOESN'T WORK!

(Oh here he goes)

I'd like trial software to sell me on a product. And so should Corel!

This is what actually happens...

Download have a play.

Have to deal with the stuff of life... 5 days.

Have another play, "oh this is looking interesting".

Have to deal with the stuff of life... 12 days.

"Crap, the trial has run out!"

I likely got 15 hours out of Corel CAD before the trail expired. That's nothing like enough to get even a basic handle on it and decide if it is useful.

And while the trials for everything else are 30 days, CGS gets only 15 days. Someone want to have a go at explaining why that is? "You lot in the naughty corner only get 15 days!"

Why can't we have a standard for this for all applications. FEELS LIKE "WE WILL SCREW THOSE DRAW USERS HARDER!" It can really feel like anything else.

Why not have X actual days of use. If you have opened the trial for more than 5 minutes, (less could be an accidental click), then the next 24 hours = 1 day.

  • I agree Pro software is too complicated to get to know 8n a few hours.

    • It's not selling it to me.

      The 15 day trial for CGS only works for existing users. It's enough time to see if things that were negative to a workflow have been resolved.

      And the 30 days of CAD, again you would have to at least already be a CAD user. If you are not then you likely aren't doing CAD everyday and the trial runs out before you get into it.

      If the trails are to sell product then they are clearly not optimized by anything but mean spirited accountant!

      "this must be a better product, it has only 1/2 trial"

      Maybe they are just trying to kill off the user base s l o w l y and make us feel the burn?

      "Cut their trials and double their prices! Eliminate the upgrade!"

  • I'm almost a week into this latest version of CorelDRAW. The first few days have run fairly smooth. But these last couple of days and especially today have been more infuriating. I've been experiencing serious memory errors and seeing those errors repeat on two different computer systems that are both pretty much new and have stout hardware. I'll be working along then all of a sudden objects won't show their selection icons when clicked. Or type objects disappear. Then maybe the whole freaking application window disappears soon after that. I frequently save my progress as I work, but these crash issues are pretty annoying. There is nothing "weak" at all about the hardware I'm running. The application is buggy.

    And that piles onto the list of bugs that still haven't been fixed from prior versions, like my long running list of type-related bugs in CorelDRAW.

    Here's another one that I find particularly annoying. I have to work a lot between CorelDRAW and Adobe Illustrator. I don't have many problems sending filled vector shapes from CorelDRAW over to Adobe Illustrator. Sometimes a gradient fill can get glitched, but usually things are pretty reliable. One thing that absolutely stinks: exporting any content from CorelDRAW to Illustrator with live text objects. That is absolutely HORRIBLE. Do the engineers at Corel actually test their export filters to see if the results actually work? This is another problem that has existed for a really long time, spanning many versions. If I have a CorelDRAW layout with live text objects, particularly body copy in paragraph text objects, the line spacing and paragraph spacing gets totally shot to garbage when that AI file is opened in Illustrator. It's worthless. The situation is bad enough that I literally have to copy the paragraph text from a live CorelDRAW document into plain text Notepad document and then paste that into the target Illustrator file. BTW, CorelDRAW and Illustrator cannot be running at the same time either. Otherwise a bunch of fonts installed in Windows get disappeared from the fonts list in Illustrator. Worse yet, the AI files exported from CorelDRAW can goof up the active fonts list in Illustrator. There is a lot of really really buggy garbage in Corel's Illustrator export filter. It really really stinks.