Presently own a perpetual license for Adobe Creative Suite 6 Master Collection. Will not be subscribing to Adobe Creative Cloud. Looking for links to what Corel might offer.
Thanks.
Thanks, Clip;
I'm a retired guy myself, military.
Thanks to all who commented on my thread.
August cut off date for Corel upgrade is a bit short-sighted ,i think. Maybe Corel believes they will garner a lot of hot-bloodied disgruntled customers just by the offer. Corel ought to extend the offer through first quarter 1914. . . . with inducements.
So, I think.
Make that, first quarter . . . 2014.
Offer is too short and pressures Adobe users who won't be pressured.
Do you doubt, long time Adobe customers are looking for alternatives?
August . . . just might not be enough time.
Been working out some workflow issues today. Someone recently mentioned that the Align and Distribute in CorelDraw was better than Illustrator but that is definitely not true. The align and distribute dialog in Illustrator allows you to set numerical tolerances for spacing between objects, plus it allows you to just let a series of objects but right up against each other rather than spacing out evenly. I was trying to do that last thing in Draw but couldn't figure it out. It actually just doesn't do it. I had to do a "snap to objects" and move them manually. Another thing I found was a bug. I couldn't several lines of live text to line up on the right. The align and distribute dialog says to use the bounding box of the objects (text) but it simply didn't work. No matter what I tried, it would stack all the text up on top of each other. Not until I converted the text to objects would it work. I also found a number of bugs in both the Object Properties box and Color Styles. Plus Draw crashed continued to crash on start up until I reset the default settings. This is what "disgruntled Adobe users" have to look forward to. Or enslavement by Adobe. LOL Rock on one side, hard place on the other.
KuttyJoe said: The align and distribute dialog in Illustrator allows you to set numerical tolerances for spacing between objects, plus it allows you to just let a series of objects but right up against each other rather than spacing out evenly. I couldn't several lines of live text to line up on the right. The align and distribute dialog says to use the bounding box of the objects (text) but it simply didn't work. No matter what I tried, it would stack all the text up on top of each other. Not until I converted the text to objects would it work. I also found a number of bugs in both the Object Properties box and Color Styles. Plus Draw crashed continued to crash on start up until I reset the default settings. This is what "disgruntled Adobe users" have to look forward to. Or enslavement by Adobe. LOL Rock on one side, hard place on the other.
The align and distribute dialog in Illustrator allows you to set numerical tolerances for spacing between objects, plus it allows you to just let a series of objects but right up against each other rather than spacing out evenly. I couldn't several lines of live text to line up on the right. The align and distribute dialog says to use the bounding box of the objects (text) but it simply didn't work. No matter what I tried, it would stack all the text up on top of each other. Not until I converted the text to objects would it work. I also found a number of bugs in both the Object Properties box and Color Styles. Plus Draw crashed continued to crash on start up until I reset the default settings. This is what "disgruntled Adobe users" have to look forward to. Or enslavement by Adobe. LOL Rock on one side, hard place on the other.
I do agree with the need to automatically space a set distance between objects. Perhaps the "Technical Suite" (does anyone know) has this? This feature should also include (or exclude) the line thickness. KuttyJoe, have you put this in the X7 Wishlist yet?
As for aligning live text, I have no problems here, it works as one would figure it too.
Mike in Canada said:I do agree with the need to automatically space a set distance between objects. Perhaps the "Technical Suite" (does anyone know) has this? This feature should also include (or exclude) the line thickness. KuttyJoe, have you put this in the X7 Wishlist yet?
Hi.
Yea, probably should be in the program. Hopefully a little improvement in the spacing will be added in the next version.
I hope the new users aren't letting these tiny little things stop them. You can do a lot of this with very simple macros Just ask around and many people will create what you need free or for a small fee.
The basic workspace and tools will work for some but most will need to invest time and money into it so they have something that really does the job. If I had to rely on the standard workspace for my workflow, I'd probably spend at least a couple extra boring hours a day working on tedious tasks.
~John
RunFlaCruiser said: I hope the new users aren't letting these tiny little things stop them
I hope the new users aren't letting these tiny little things stop them
I agree, most of the newcomers are just experiencing "transitional issues" which will be hard to learn at first. The spacing issue is easily resolved many different ways and there probably is a macro out there somewhere already.
I firmly believe the software engineers at Corel could add hundreds of features to CorelDraw Suite, but lack of funds probably inhibits these new features. So yeah, "hopefully a little improvement" is all we can expect.
RunFlaCruiser said:I hope the new users aren't letting these tiny little things stop them.
That wouldn't be enough to stop me. But there are bigger issues. And I'm not a new user. I'm an old user trying to come back to using Draw. It underscores the difficulty that someone with no CorelDraw experience will have trying to transition from Illustrator.