Hi All
I made the BigJump from 9 to X4 some months ago , time to say something about, feelings are really mixted
from one side i loved the new interface, how X4 handles PDF was the great thing for me , awesome feature was for me the export for office option (png power :) ) smart guides helped some, but i really miss ver 9 speed
even for dummy files X4 is a big turtle, i have the feeling of "jumping" graphics (like "lag" in games) tested illustrator CS5 in same machine was EXTREMELY SPEEDER ,damn if i didnt have the Unicode fonts issue i d thrown that turtle away... its hard to say that for the software that i do my job from 1991 but ver 9 was the GOLD version -Damn Corel MAKE A FAST and STABLE programm with only a few features
Really dissapointed blame myself that i didnt started with Mac /illustrator platform...
pap said:even for dummy files X4 is a big turtle...
Maybe try this tip for X4..
Disable LiveText is very useful and also, chech if you have too much saved views (Ctrl+F2) or Color styles (Tools/Color styles)
Recently I made the same job on a big file using X5 and CS5 on the same job. Altough in some operations illustrator has more speed, on the global process CorelDRAW X5 was faster. Also, some time ago we do the same job on a Mac with Illustrator CS5 vs PC with CorelDRAW X5, both experienced users, Illustrator open faster but the job was made faster with CorelDRAW.