CorelDraw on its final leg!

edserrano
over 9 years ago

For a while now I have been trying to convince myself that the powers that be would turn this program around and once more be the great program it was. Way back then, Illustrator couldn't even compare! Now, it looks that I will have to jump ship and go to bed with whom at one point was "The Enemy".

With update 4 Corel has given its once flagship program the "coup de grace". Working with Corel since version 5, never had a version so buggy to the point of rendering it worthless! Crashes so often that it becomes unbearable. Features like Fit Text To Path are now worthless to a professional user now, among others more.

Obviously, Corel do not care and will not cater to customer like us. The company seems to be geared towards creating gimmicky features that bring nothing to the program other than make it buggy.

I will keep lurking the forums once in a while and if (nothing short of a miracle happens), if I ever hear anything good about improvements to the program, I may come back. I know Corel don't give a hoot about my 200 upgrade dollars but at least I got this off my chest and who knows, if enough of us paying customers start exiting; perhaps somebody will listen!!!

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  • over 9 years ago
    I remember when Illustrator was just pathetic compared to CorelDRAW. That was back when Illustrator for Windows was stuck at version 4 for years while the Mac platform got versions 5, 5.5 and 6 exclusively. Then Adobe must have seen how CorelDRAW was adding great new features rapidly and also probably saw how their 1990's arch rival Freehand was growing its user base on Windows. Adobe started to get with the program with version 7. But Adobe has been slow to add certain drawing features that have been standard in CorelDRAW for 15 or 20 years.

    With regards to bugs, stability, user friendliness, etc. CorelDRAW X7 definitely needs some improvement. I've had some issues (not a lot, but enough to find very annoying) with X7 on my computer and this is with a fresh, clean install of Windows 7 Ultimate on my Dell XPS notebook. I had Corel X5 running on the previous installation, but decided to get X7 to test it. My office PC and a co-worker's PC are running X6. Anyway, my X7 installation is not running as smoothly as X5 did. So there is definitely something amiss.

    With regard to bugs in Adobe applications, yes, some of the Creative Cloud applications have had some bugs. However, Illustrator hasn't been one of the bigger offenders in terms of CC 2014 applications. Adobe has usually been pretty good at providing updates to fix bugs as well as add new features.

    I still use CorelDRAW extensively in my work despite also having Adobe Creative Cloud. But it's not too much to ask to expect Corel's executives and developers to fix known bugs and do other things to make CorelDRAW a better application in the future. I strongly believe they need to try selling CorelDRAW on the Mac platform again. Adobe doesn't have much credible competition other than a couple cheap drawing applications sold in the Apple store. It's not the same hostile situation Corel faced when they tried selling version 11 on the Mac platform a decade ago.
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