For Corel Corp.
When you develop something like x7 it would enhance the user experience greatly if when users had to save as old versions. you would have the save as function BY DEFAULT automatically set the correct functions for the closest possible save and present an options table for all items not directly saveable or convertible.
That is the first thing we check with any new software and always discover little things not to do for saving .
You have the knowledge to do it by default.
Think of users, a lot of us test and read documentation, most of the questions in this forum are from those who don't and all of us would like not to have to.
Thanks
Ross Blair
The statistics should make this important.
Only a new user or home user will not down save
Those who use CorelDraw for business, companies that buy many copies, will surely down save. You really can't just plunge into an upgrade as far as business is concerned. It takes time to get everyone on the same page, get all add-ons and macros upgraded, plus the bugs and workarounds for them that come with pre-service packed versions. This makes down saving quite important. For me it takes about a year or so.
It really depends on the new features you start using in X7, or any newer version, they might not be editable and a conversion could take place.
It should be very important to get down saving as bug free and functional as possible.
Hi john
That is a given regarding upgrades. we were migrating back to Corel with the arrival of open type. after the look at X7 we are going back to Cs6 we always look at down saving it would just be nice to have a guide of some type for reference we currently run 19 stations for just about any type of work.
Corel will still be used to some degree but not principal production we are not going to sort out which colour palettes save correctly pantones going to black on screen is interesting that type of stuff has to go away. the only way is for Corel to do a much better job of considering how users in the graphics business use the products.
We don't need frills we need tools that work and the ability to save back easily. A reference guide as to how to possibly represent new features in old version would help.
We are always telling clients they may not be able to fully use what we do if they don't upgrade which is fine it is then their choice. More and more of them say just use adobe make a pdf we'll open it in illustrator and make revisions Corel is being pushed off their systems. Doesn't matter to me. I still prefer Corel's interface up to x6 but they are losing more clients. I am surprised how man of ours are going cloud. They just consider the cost of doing business, Its strange to me you ask them to do a 400. upgrade the answer is no subscribe on the cloud for 400 per year they are okay with it.
Ross