How much difference in 12 and X3?

I was thinking of upgrading from 12 to X3 or to wait on the next version. I was wondering - How much difference is there in 12 and x3?

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Mosh over 16 years ago

I think one could do without X3. X3 is VERY stable and has a couple of improvements built in. There's a help docker, improvements to text behaviour, Trace is now integrated and offers more possibilities, the scroll bars behave much better and some other stuff, but IMHO, 12 works fine also. PPaint was barely touched and on the whole, there was not a lot of new stuff inside the suite (like we had with versions 9 or 10, for example). Others might give you a different opinion.
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Stefan Lindblad over 16 years ago

If you had version 9, 10 or 11 or older than 9 I would suggest you upgrade to X3 no doubt. Go doing some shopping. But if you already have version 12, it will do fine, its a great version. Maybe wait for the next version. I think X3 is a really nice version, so for those older than 12 go shop.
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Ariel over 16 years ago

There's a a hundred of differences between CGS 12 and CorelDRAW X3

http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Product/1150836020163
http://www.corel.com/content/pdf/cgsx3/cdgsx3_reviewers_guide.pdf
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Sally Bode over 16 years ago in reply to Ariel

Corel lets you do a trial. Trying if for yourself is the best way of knowing if you should upgrade. Myself, it was worth it for me as I do work for a printer which does lots of spot color and newsletters and business cards. I also use 12 at work out of a concession to the typesetter which is a technophobe and scarely wanted to be stopped from using 8 which was here comfort zone. She is stil using 8 PhotoPaint as she absolutely doesn't want to learn anything new. wOxxOm wrote a script in his blog that easily lets you save to an older version and I find that makes working in X3 quite compatible with another user in he office that only used 12. Learning is what life's about. X3 is a terrific program. If you only work in black and white or in RGB or CMYK, you don't absolutely need X3. If you need to edit .pdfs, place them in books you are building as ads, receive client artwork in .pdf and put it on their forms, you need X3. 12 sees many .pdfs as being corrupt and there isn't anything wrong with them. True, PhotoPaint hasn't had a lot of improvements, on that Adobe has some improvements in nested layers I which Corel would do something like. But I use PhotoPaint consistently and not Photoshop very often. So I must like it. Tracing is much improved and you can assign color in the tracer and even spot color. There are going to be things to edit with a trace, but It is still a great way of getting new cartoons into newsletters. The crop tool works for vectors and for bitmaps and is very useful. Fillets and rounds, another feature I use a lot. Don't like some of the new text features in the paragraph docker so I just don't use it. X3 has a feature like Live Paint in Illustrator, I think I like DRAW's better. You can use the Color Docker or any palette to drag colors in also.
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duch319 over 16 years ago in reply to Sally Bode

I have access to corel 12 learning software but I have installed corel X3. Should I go and buy the X3 software to learn it instead of the 12. And is X3 mean 13 (lol - I know that sounds crazy - better safe than sorry).

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