Occasionally a Corel employee would at least make an unofficial response to questions/concerns. However, it appears they have mostly gone silent. Have they been told to stop interacting with customers? Have they given up?I know they are not working on bug fixes as most bugs acknowledged over the past year have been ignored. I truly hope that X8 fixes bugs more than offering even more useless, or worse buggy, new "features".
Some bugs like the CYMK vs. RGB picker debacle in fountain fills should never have gone out in the first place. Let alone survived several updates and patches.
bob said:A good president knows how to put one dollar down and get 100 dollars back and do it as fast as possible over and over again without breaking any laws.
Just to clarify, the President (CEO) of Corel is Patrick Nichols.
Phil1923 said:Gerard
Phil I don't know the man on a personal level but I've had business dealings with Corel before and after his arrival.
I can say that when he arrived Corel as a company and as a software it was a mess. He helped organized a team and provide direction that has placed The CorelDraw Graphics Suite as the only real option to Adobe in terms of core technical requirements for professionals, ON A GLOBAL LEVEL. Have all the junk that was acquired under the Cowpland days been removed? No but all the wayward haphazard behavior in terms of adding associations and removing have gone away.
Does Gerard have full control over what the corporation does ? No. The corporate plan is not his domain, I'm sure he has his level of input, but I can tell you that no only does Gerard listen, he acts.
Many features that have realigned Corel toward the professional large/grand format printing, professional cartoon illustrations as well as other markets are all due to his input. The coordination between Corel software has not progressed as quickly as I would like but now we have a movement toward the Video Studio, PaintShop Pro, AfterShot Pro, Painter CorelDraw Graphics Suite and I'm sure he has his hand on this.
Handing over the CPT specification would most likely not be his call and I would advise against it. In my opinion Corel should do more to protect the brand not hand over things to nothing companies.
You're way off base and WAY OUT OF LINE, as usual.
I guess part of my frustration is that Gerard actually called me last year when I discovering a host of bugs. He seemed very interested and acknowledge most of them. While he never outright promised that they would all be fixed, I had the distinct impression that many would be addressed.
However, it's been more that year since that contact and most are still broken. I did appreciate his outreach and did not want to pester him personally but at this point I feel I was just being pacified and that there were no intentions of fixing the bugs, especially the legacy bugs that have persisted for several versions.
I will not comment on the man or his role as I don't know him personally and I'm sure he is very smart and knows just what he can get away with (internally) and what he feels needs addressing.
But lip service is lip service and in the long run it makes me twice as angry. First for not fixing the bugs. And second for leading me to believe that they would get fixed over time. Well, it's a year later and very little was fixed. I also had contact with two other Corel employees who were delighted that I provided videos of bugs I had found. So I figured that by providing even more videos I might get a little response but again, nothing. "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."