Hey all, been a while....
Can X4 natively export to PDF?
Yes, it's not my place to criticize it and I almost feel bad for posting, but I simply don't like software at any cost that's married to particular hardware. It's the principle of the thing with me, even though $70 or $140 or $210 for your macro may be a bargain regardless if you have to buy it twice or three times over to continue using the same software. (the oem version of windows vista does something similarly limiting in that you're stuck with the vista license married forever to the origial hardware, but likewise, it's bundled with oem hardware so cheaply that it sometimes still saves you money over buying retail copies)
hi Island,
Yes, just like Vista and XP, MonsterMerge is locked to hardware. We could have gone the dongle route, but that adds too much $$$ to the software right off the bat.
Like the OEM versions of Vista and XP. The retail versions of Vista and XP can be installed on different hardware by doing the activation again in most cases or in a worst case having to call MS on the phone.
Anyway, I'll stop harping on this now. It just surprised me that you went this way as hardware-independent one-license-per-user vs. hardware-tied licensing has always been a real bonus of Corel for me vs. other venders that I've avoided for the pain-in-the-neck issues.
But in other cases now that I think of it I've reluctantly accepted limited software in the case of our Feiry RIPS for example (since there was no equally good option not locked and lmiited) where we can't upgrade the hardware under our lease so for example we have one RIP that's still running with 128 MB of RAM on an 850 mhz cpu a 5-year lease that takes 5 minutes to chew through each job -- pains me that I can't speed that machine up with faster RIP hardware now that it's so out of date and so cheap to have a cpu, ram, and hard drive 3x faster, but I've accepted it as a package, so I suppose I can accpet your software being hardware limited. In a worst case if I bought it I could always keep it running on the old computer on my desk if I couldn't convince myself to just pony up the cash to buy the same CD over again when I upgraded hardware :)
Yes, but Microsoft reserves the right to make the final decision on whether they want to reactivate.
One of the sweeping misconceptions about software is that a user owns it when they buy it. They are only buying the right to use it, under specific circumstances. If a potential user doesn't agree with the terms of sale, they retain the right to walk away before spending a dime. That's why we are 100% clear up front.
There have been customers that were astonished with our protection systems (Esp. on some products that are only 10.00), which are far more fortified than CorelDRAW itself. They probably had the idea that they would buy a product once and install on their favorite 10 systems. No dice. Begrudgingly, they bought multiple copies - because there's no other way to get the benefits of some of our products without fairly rewarding the people who are the best in the world in this field.
Our products are intended for serious users with real production problems.
Heh... I can see your point of view as a user, since I am one also. But I guarantee that when anyone is on the other side of the table as software vendor, they're defensive with their "kids", thinking about the endless hours put into development of the programs.
As an AC member and Beta tester for X4, I have new respect for Corel and what's involved to get from point A to Z.
Island said:The retail versions of Vista and XP can be installed on different hardware by doing the activation again in most cases or in a worst case having to call MS on the phone.
Hi ! I have problems with PDF exportated works with X4 (on XP) At screen, the PDF seems great. Here is the PDF :http://www.procreat.com/Mandeyrlane_hauteur233_largeur190_page_de_gauche.pdf (17,427 Mo)Then, It has been imported into Quark Xpress 7.31 on Mac OS X for printing in a magazine.I don't think they have seen something strange at screen, but when it has been printed...too late!So here is the result compared with the original that is closed to:http://www.procreat.com/Colors_washed-out.jpg (0.894 Mo)As you can see at right, the colors are washed-out.If some Corel developers would like to see the original file and tell me what's wrong: http://www.procreat.com/Mandeyrlane_hauteur233_largeur190_page_de_gauche_impression.cdr (11,715 Mo)Profil used : http://www.procreat.com/profil_used.jpg (0.105 Mo)It would be apreciated.Just for info, inside the corelDraw file, all the bitmaps of the job have been all flatened in only one CMJN bitmap.. no RVB objects, transparencies, clipboards have been let. I dont' understand...Just a printing provider let me know yesterday in a printing job I have requested him that all vectorial objects in red color (M100, Y100) has become brown on the printing result, and told me that he hasn't seen it at screen....After testing with ripping again, he told me that the profil that was inside the PDF was not good, just he found the solution to supress it and the colors have been fine....Is there any way to control truly the colors before sending to print? Thank you by advance...