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.
As Windows is now, people who are upgrading to Windows Vista, many must buy new equipment and the headache of that, reinstalling in an OS that is not stable, is not all that appealing.
The only way for it to change is for Corel to port to MAC. There are many reasons why MAC users are not going to come over to the PC side to use CorelDRAW, but some may have a few favorite programs and run Parallels anyway and run CorelDRAW X3. It isn't as fast as on a PC but am waiting for Leopard to be released in September.
There is a lot of what if it were in the political arena would be called "propaganda" out there from the Adobe camp, they have as it were a lock down on colleges which only offer instruction for Adobe products. Meanwhile industry marches along using DRAW for loads of things and the industry must train its own artists or the artists must find their own training somehow.
I understand it is a lot of money for Corel to spend, but yes there is still a market for CorelDRAW 11. Since Windows hasn't addressed its issues of OS vulnerablity, this reason alone will drive more and more people who like PC programs to run those on MAC. I am doing that, there are othes who are also. Add that group together with those who are using CorelDRAW 11, you have quite a few.
CorelDRAW is remarkable software. And future editions of DRAW will be only better. Truth is that it is necessary to own the Adobe Creative Suite which is horrendously expensive if you aren't using DRAW. As the cost of living continues to climb and as so many now which aren't but now consider themselves graphic artists because they have a computer flood the market, wages for the graphic artist are not rising to meet these costs. The only way to survive is for the artist to cut their costs. This is a humane reason to port DRAW for MAC and a great appeal for CorelDRAW, even among those who are stubborn and have swallowed the lies of advertising a long time. When it is hitting them financially, aren't they going to think twice.
People are clamoring to Xara to finish their port to MAC, well there is an equal market and greater as Xara doesn't do postscript like DRAW does: the sign industry, screen printing industry, sublimation and printing industry and so on, technical illustrators, you name it, would all benefit.
Because DRAW is so fast, you can create a better product, a really incredibly good quality product in less time than one can create just a simple, bare bones project out of Illustrator.
We have a growing client base because of using DRAW.