Corel, what is the possibility of a release of CorelDraw X3 for Mac? I have been a loyal user of Draw since Version 3 and recently purchased a MAC for graphics use. X3 is Awesome and I bet it would be extra special on the Mac. Some clever advertisement could boost sales to Mac users and I bleieve the numbers of Mac users are growing. Thanks.
Was 8 the last MAC version of Draw officially released for MAC? Or did it go up to 11?
Is it any easier to code now for intel based MACs or is it just as difficult to recode for osx on an intel cpu as on a powerpc - does it not make a difference at the application level?
Did they also do a version of CorelDraw for Linux some time back (that would be very nice too!)
Actually, Version 11 was the last one released for MAC. I had thought of using it but from what I ahve read it crashes with the latest OS. I don't see where there is a downside for Corel to support this considering how popular it is. I tried out Adobe Illustrator and although it is similar I like CorelDraw much better.
Well-informed people (Foster) says there were hardly any Mac users of version 11 according to surveys. Not profitable to develop for both platforms even though it would probably render Corel some credibility in the Mac graphics camp - if it was done good. But remember that Draw uses VBA for scripting and that excludes that whole area for Mac users anyway.
A viable soulution for (Intel) Mac users is probably to run Windows or Boot Camp on their machines to be able to run Draw.
The demand for a Mac version is HUGE! Just that you don't see it. We are a distributor here in Greece and still sell plenty version 11 specifically to the Mac crowd. Now X3 with Parallels is a viable and good alternative. EVERY Mac user in the graphics space NEEDS corel draw. At worse just to open and work with cdr files. At best for one of the many things X3 does which their current, slick (so they think) Adobe world, doesn't cover.
Also an important pointer. X3 on a new Mac under Parallels is blazing fast compared to Adobe-Mac applications most people are used to.
Let's just be clear on this. Mac users deserve a Mac solution and getting them to be cdr compatible is good for all of us. Let's not propagate a useless Mac-PC war. Professional users just want to get their TASK achieved. Leaving Corel Draw out of the toolset is foolish by any account.
That sounds great. Here in Sweden the Mac users don't even know what CorelDraw is. I was emailing the chief editor of the major DTP magazine here, regarding the absence of CorelDraw in a 20-year anniversary review of DTP development. He apologized and told me that nobody in the editorial staff had any knowledge of Corel products. They only stick to Adobe and Quark. But it seems like they want to be more updated on Corel though and maybe I can help out some with that.
Don't misinterpret me though: I was only passing along the information of Foster Coburn, that I picked up in another forum. If there was some economy in porting Draw to Mac I assume it will happen. However, I see it less likely now, when Mac users can run Windows on their machines anyway. Besides, porting Draw to Mac OS won't solve the problem with VBA macros that will still be unavailable unless in a Windows environment. Or am I wrong about that?