I give them "A" for effort in their UI design. At least they are respecting the platforms UI guidelines.
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CorelDRAW Returns to Mac After Nearly 20 Years With macOS Mojave Dark Mode and Touch Bar Support
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Still remember when I'm still in 10.4, CorelDraw file extension was confused with apple CD images (both of they use .cdr extension)
I wonder after 2 decades passed Apple still use those old file extension which make CorelDraw file extension confused again.
I wonder after 2 decades passed Apple still use those old file extension which make CorelDraw file extension confused again.
Back in the day, use of CorelDRAW was a good indication that you were going to receive a troublesome messed up graphics file that you’d have to completely redo. It indicated a windows user lacking art skills
Or some-one pig ignorant of CorelDRAW users.
This new version may be great but these days I want a solution includes tablet support. Right now Affinity is the only one offering this. Adobe will some day but I think their solution is a couple years way. Corel doesn't even seem to have a tablet strategy.
The article is "coreldraw-returns-to-mac" why would they need a "tablet strategy"?
You must have a better memory than I do, I don't remember anything coming on 2.5" floppies...
Yes! It took quite a while to install programs like Word on those old disc drive machines running Windows. Sometimes it took hours, literally. I think we probably had 80286 machines then. And it never failed, at least one of the dozens of 2.5" disks would be a dud and you would have to call CS to get another set mailed to you in a week or so!
Last summer, I got a PowerBook G4, set it up with OS 10.1 and installed old OS X compatible version of Corel Draw. Wow, I don't think they should have left in the first place. I don't think they will ever gain much marketshare.
Corel was so lacking smarts. When Apple was desparate for apps for OS X back in the early days, they should invested their entire product line. Even WordPerfect would have be living comfortably right now.
Corel was so lacking smarts. When Apple was desparate for apps for OS X back in the early days, they should invested their entire product line. Even WordPerfect would have be living comfortably right now.
My first Apple computer was an Apple II+ which had one 5.25" true floppy disk drive mounted externally. Each disk had to hold the app code and any saved data. No hard-drives has they cost more than the friggin' computers. I think it ran ProDOS. My first Mac was the Mac SE which had two 2.5" disk drives built in. That was a common configuration for PCs in the early 1980s as HDD were insanely expensive. You put the app code on one disc and used the other one for data storage. Not much useful "canned" software in those days either, so we had to write out own most of the time. You young people have no idea how easy you have it now as far as computer technology goes.
I wouldn't want to invest a solution which isn't thinking about a tablet strategy. Who knows where the Mac will be in a couple years.
I bought and learned Corel in the 90s. I remember it came with 3, 2 inch thick manuals lol.
I hope that it will put pressure on Adobe to offer a buy-out price for Photoshop. I hate renting software.
I hope that it will put pressure on Adobe to offer a buy-out price for Photoshop. I hate renting software.
Hahahaha he means either the 5.25" floppies, or the hard shell 3.5". Back in the 80s I used to work for a diskette duplication company in London. It was my first proper job after leaving school and we used to duplicate these programs (Lotus 123, Lotus Agenda, Corel, etc.) onto disk, pack them with manuals, shrink-wrap them, etc. and distribute.
Feeding hundreds and hundreds of 5.25inch disks into the duplication hopper day after day was soul destroying - but that was my first foray into IT!
Ugh! Don't they realize that the market is already saturated with amazing programs other than Adobe? I was forced to use Corel at one job and hated it. It was so backwards and when sending my files to my print vendor, the press operators had a hell of a hard time dealing with these files. I guess they still have their small market and followers. Good luck to them. I'm happy with my Adobe software.
I'll do you one better, I remember using MS Word on a DOS computer in the 1980s that supported only 40 characters of a monospaced font on the monitor with no Bold, Italic, Underline, etc. To create readable documents, you had to assign a different color for Bold, Italic, Underline, etc. then hope it printed out correctly. A total PITA backside for creating papers for grad school. Then I got a Mac SE and fell in love with its ability to display the documents on screen just like they would print out!
I know exactly what he means, I'm finding it amusing how they keep explaining what 2.5" disks are to me and saying "us young people have no idea".... I built my own computers all the way back to the mid 1980s, I still don't know what a 2.5" floppy was
I also used Canvas heavily. Much better than Visio ever was/is. And then they abandoned it. Sorry I would not go back to a product that abandoned the Mac Market. OmniGraffle replaced my Canvas work as well. Have not looked back.
The sad part is that they are just trying to cash in on the subscription model that I so despise in software. Expect them to offer loot boxes in their next bid to win back Mac customers