just wondering .... when will coreldraw be available on linux?
today, corel is the only application which holds me back from switching
me Too looking the answer for the same !!!
I am a graphic designer and using Corel Draw x4 and Adobe Photoshop CS4 on un-secure n ever crashing Windows XP 32bit. Is there any way we can use these softwares on Linux safely and securely?
bsb said: me Too looking the answer for the same !!! I am a graphic designer and using Corel Draw x4 and Adobe Photoshop CS4 on un-secure n ever crashing Windows XP 32bit. Is there any way we can use these softwares on Linux safely and securely?
I use CorelDRAW X4 and Photoshop without problems, no crashes or freezes. So, the most important thing is to have a "clean" operating system. On Linux you don't have problem with virus and other issues. Unfortunately, Linux is an small market and I don't see a Linux version in the near future
So, more than a year have passed and the CorelDraw still haven't a native linux version This encouraged a lot of projects successful that opens cdr (developed by reversing engineering), are linux native and they have low cpu usage! Look carefully to users linux. We are growing fast and contaminating everyone around us. We love use native programs (we don't like to adapt other systems programs) and we know how persuade our bosses to support our needs. Even the movies industry are migrating for linux solutions, why press companies not? Think about it carefully. The new generation is learning more linux each day, soon this system will be in lot of press companies.
Unfortuntely, business are business. Linux is a very good and powerful operating system, but still is too small and almost all is for free and the company don't see advantadges to develop an entire new version (more than a million of codelines, too much work) without receive enough. More important than Linuex, Corel must develop a new and native version for Mac, similar size of marketplace but special for graphic design. When Corel develops their own CorelLinux and CorelDRAW for Linux, the company was unprofitable, by contrast, won only enemies and was on the brink of chaos.
I agree that is more intersting develop for Mac and don't understand why haven't a native version for that system yet.
I understand too the concern about low profit in linux but not everyting is for free. We have good paid programs. No one cares to pay a program that will solve our problems.
Furthermore Corel need only open the program code on a license that allows the Linux community to develop but that guarantees the right to sell the final product. The only cost to Corel would create a repository of development and develop few libs as the filter to read and write files on cdr.
As for enemies. Develop for any system other than the current, Corel will have an enemy. So it's no use worrying about it if they wish to expand further and keep it always on top of the segment.
X5 is tightly integrated with new features in Windows 7, so it appears that development for Mac or Linux is likely not happening. I would use a linux workstation myself if I could run CorelDraw on it.
info-data said:X5 require netframework. it means that X5 will work only on windows. X5 is NOTindependent from Windows! I think because Corel programmists/coders incompetent to create own dlls like in netframework. CorelDraw are connected (dependent) with (only) windows more & more! No Linux, no Mac.... - flawed/dystrophy/ politic. I think self-respecting company MUST create independent (from environment) software , & may be crossplatform software.
Yes, you're right about that CorelDRAW requires the .NET framework, then only will work under Windows. And that's not because the programmers are incompetent or they don't know how to develop a DLL. They already do it before.It was a policy of the company, and it was a collaborative work with Microsoft since several years ago to the present. Since it helps to improve the program, it's nothing negative. Of course, that's exclude Linux definitely for present an future. btw I don't see this as something negative, on the contrary, it's the better decision. If some dat Corel will develop a Mac or Linux version, it should be a native program, developed for this operating system, no more a WIndows translation
info-data said:Everything is sad! policy of the company & so on. the users like me will leave Corel (will never pay money) & learn Inkscape. You said 5%. this 5% are good guys... But CorelCo spits to them. (besiness, MSintegration). I do not understand this politic. I think MS pay (cash support) to Corel for integration to be monopolist. I think Adobe pay to gimp for nonCMYK politic. Very Very sad!
That's relative to the use you need. There's a lot of free software, available for Linux and XP too. Gimp, Scribus, Inkscape, etc. Of course,that could be good enough for you. The problem could be if you receive files for other people or do you need to send files to other people. How many print shops, pre-press companies, sign industries, adeverising companies, etc uses inkscape or scribus? Almost nobody, although it was free. That doesn't mean it was a bad software, I just mentioned because you could have compatibily problems with the rest of the world. Fortunately, there're several exchange data, such as PDF, TIF, JOG, etc, that wil help you Take care about color management and color profiles, for having a good result.
I understand your frustration, but Microsoft is who imposes the rules of the game. Corel tried to evade the rules several years ago, and develop versions of program for Linux, even their own CorelLinux (adding the first visual graphic interface.that become the current sandard for linux desktop and installation) The result was a disaster. Corel spend a lot of money, time and effort, and didn't receive anything. So, at this point, if Corel want to have an official Windows certification, Corel should follow the instructions of Microsoft, And since this certification help to perform a better develop of the program, it's good (at least for almost all users.).