After all these years and updates, CorelPP STILL does not support text borders/stroke?? I just don't understand why not. Every version I keep hoping, but always get dissappointed. Now X4 comes along and still nothing. Photoshop has supported this feature for years, but why can't Corel keep up? It seems to me that they focus all their efforts on CorelDRAW and for CorelPHOTO-PAINT, they just go in and change the icons and call it a day. Maybe I'm missing something and just can't find this feature hidden somewhere (wishful thinking, I'm sure)??
For a few years now to simulate this effect I have to go into DRAW and create a text object with a border. Then copy it. Go into Photo-Paint and create another text object. Then paste the DRAW text object into the PP text object and see how it looks. If the border is too thick or too thin, then i have to start all over again. But if the border is good, then at least i have the ability to alter the letters in the text while still keeping the effect which is good. But it seems to me that if I can mimick the effect in PP, why can't Corel simply implement it into the software fully and give us the ability to change the border thickness and color right there within PP?
Don't get me wrong, I love the Corel products and prefer them over Photoshop and Illustrator, but I wish that Corel would listen to its customers and fix the current problems and if at all possible, match many of the features of the Adobe counterparts.
What do you guys think?
I suggest you do like this as well, suggest your wish and attach an image on how it looks, or how you like it to look and work. If you like to have supprters that "scream" as loud as you, put an attachment image as reference, not all would know what you talk about.Me for example I was in the Advisory Council Forum and Beta Forum for X4, as was both Foster and Yani, and I attached images as referens, together with explanation of text. The straighten image dialog, howevere great it is, I wanted even more features to it, and attached images to explain. We were loud and struggling about a lot of things, and Corel DID listen, but we didnt get all we wished for. There were even more features and tools I wanted, and didnt get, but I attached images with text explanation, and it made it more direct for others, who useally dont have the same needs as I have, to understand what I meant.
Concept211 said:CorelPP STILL does not support text borders/stroke??
I'm on the other end as an output provider I wish image editors like PS and PP would not be used to create text. Anything under 24 pt looks like crap and we get that small stuff all the time. The the client cries and whines cause they have to rebuild the file.
David Milisock said:I'm on the other end as an output provider I wish image editors like PS and PP would not be used to create text. Anything under 24 pt looks like crap and we get that small stuff all the time. The the client cries and whines cause they have to rebuild the file.
That's why the client should be using a vector program (DRAW or Illustrator) for print work. But for my line of work (web design/development), all my work is mostly raster based, therefore I need these features in PP.
We has a few thousand web site a few years back and sold them off, did my text in Draw. I had one machine that was set up as a default web, pixels for the rulers and 72 DPI. Whether you use PS or PP for me it was easier and faster to create as vector and convert to raster when finished. For me PS, (and all Adobe products) are about as intuitive a a virgin in a brothel!
Hi Concept,
When I was starting out I learned PP faster/better than Draw because I had a book for it to go through features.
Later on, I came to love the flexibility of Draw for creating web components. I've built about 20 sites now. I think that if you were more comfortable with Draw, you wouldn't look back. I still use and love PP too, but for my own sanity I use each program for their strengths. They are the perfect team.
Re: software.. I could create digital artwork for the rest of my career with Draw 9 - about 10 years old - and survive. If you leave and move to Adobe's latest, I can't think you'd be any better off.
JD
Concept211 said:Well, I'm very glad to hear that I'm not the only one that feels this way about PP. I've always searched the internet and forums looking for solutions to different problems that I have in PP, but usually never find any. I only see posts and articles about DRAW. So it made me think that basically no one really uses PP, therefore they have no issues. I hate to say it, but I may have to begin my transition to Photoshop because I know for a fact that we're going to wait another 2 years for X5 to come along and all we're going to get are 1 or 2 useless tool enhancements and a new set of icons for PP.
Well, I'm very glad to hear that I'm not the only one that feels this way about PP. I've always searched the internet and forums looking for solutions to different problems that I have in PP, but usually never find any. I only see posts and articles about DRAW. So it made me think that basically no one really uses PP, therefore they have no issues.
I hate to say it, but I may have to begin my transition to Photoshop because I know for a fact that we're going to wait another 2 years for X5 to come along and all we're going to get are 1 or 2 useless tool enhancements and a new set of icons for PP.