Over the years, I've bought the occasional software package from JourneyEd, as I'm a teacher with precious little means and need any break I can get. I know I bought CorelDRAW 11, X5, and X6 from them.
I have only recently started using the copy of X5 I bought, and have noticed some odd things. Of course, it has (Not for commercial use) in the title bar. It's garish, but not a big deal. But a lot of keyboard shortcuts do not work, and that is a hassle for someone who has relied on them for years. Most everything I've done with X5 thus far has been fairly basic, so I can't say what other features have been disabled. I've read something about a watermark, but nothing I've printed has had one (I would be livid if it did).
I can't find any authoritative online reviews of the Education Editions. I've read Amazon.com reviews, but they aren't exactly enlightening.
Has anyone out there had any experience with these versions and can say, conclusively, what has been disabled or crippled in them?
Here's a link to X6:
Corel DRAW Graphics Suite X6 | Student Discount at JourneyEd.com
Corel may have removed the default short keys that were in older versions. However you can customize your own short keys. I find it more intuitive. You can also save your customized workspace file to use it on any other machine. Doing that will enable your set preferences on that machine.
sumd00d said:But a lot of keyboard shortcuts do not work, and that is a hassle for someone who has relied on them for years.
Now, this is odd:
Pressing ALT-V brings up the View menu, but pressing the W key thereafter does nothing at all. Other combinations, such as ALT-V, E, work normally. So, I created the shortcut key combination (ALT-V, W), myself.
This caused ALT-V to bring up the View menu only every other try. I had to use every shortcut twice in a row to get any single View menu combination to work. Other menus (File, Edit, etc.) behaved normally.
After I deleted the combination I made, the default View menu shortcuts behaved normally.
Seriously?
Is it possible that your X5 has some how inherited some workspace settings from an earlier version?
You could try holding F8 before starting CorelDraw, which should reset most settings to their standard defaults.
Well, this X5 is the only version that has ever been installed on this particular computer. I have 11 on another computer, and X6 on yet another.
I held down F8 while launching the program, resetting the work space to the factory default. This had no effect on the buggy shortcuts I mentioned.
What I have noticed is that pressing ALT-V, W highlights Wireframe in the View menu, but doesn't activate it. I can then press ENTER to activate it, but I've never had to do that before—and I've been using this software since version 2.0. It's just not supposed to work this way.
sumd00d said:ALT-V, W highlights Wireframe in the View menu, but doesn't activate it.
The usual reason for that would be that there might be another entry in the view menu which also has a shortcut of W. If that's the case, pressing W a second time will show you which entry that is.
I don't have X5, but in X6, wireframe and view manager both share the W shortcut. So, this is not specific to the educational version and not even specific to X5. But you can delete one of them if you only want the other shortcut, or assign a different shortcut to one of them.
You will probably find there are other places where the same happens. In X6, H in the file menu has at least two actions.