I think you mean 3.5". You're a noob unless you installed from the 5.25" disks.
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I think you mean 3.5". You're a noob unless you installed from the 5.25" disks.
You have to excuse the old people their slipping memory.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
Yeah, OK, I'll be sure to download this, along with QuarkXPress...
Quark was great back in the day in the mid-to-late 90s. It was so simple and easy to use. But when InDesign was released and it supported PSD and AI files natively, with transparency, that was the end for me. Switched and never looked back. Quark really dropped the ball.
I am beyond excited!!! I have been begging them for years to move over. That is the ONLY program I used on windows that I could not let go of and have been running on parallels. I finally can dump windows entirely!!!!!! Oh Happy Day! I never could move over to adobe suite. hate it and couldn't adjust to the logic flow and affinity designer is nice, but again, when you have been using one software for decades, it is hard to change. I just love the way CD works. Besides, I have years of files that refer back to, so this is wonderful!
Quark dropped the ball for me with their ridiculous licensing. When I started my design business, had a friend willing to sell me his QXpress 3.1 License. I called Quark to ask what I needed to do to transfer the license and purchase upgrades. They wouldn't do it. So, I bought Photoshop (2.5 I think) off of eBay and the seller provided a transfer of license. Registered with Adobe and have been locked in ever since. I don't mind the monthly license as I use about 75% of the Suite. I just downloaded the Affinity apps just to have them and see what they are all about, I think they can at least get Adobe to start considering their customer's a little bit more.
[doublepost=1552407891][/doublepost]R.I.P. Freehand
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
Then the comments obviously were not addressed to you. They were addressed to the Millennials who likely don't remember much of anything from the 1980s.
I’m still grumpy that Adobe killed Freehand (aldus then macromedia).
I’d buy freehand in a heartbeat.
I’d buy freehand in a heartbeat.
Nice, its great to see developers still looking to add to the Mac OS ecosystem.
Now all I need is WordStar for Mac and my life is complete.
You can, almost: download the terminal text editor "Joe" - complete with WordStar keybindings!
Edit:
There's also a Wordstar clone:
http://wordtsar.ca
There is one thing that CorelDRAW does right; node editing. In Illustrator, it is painfully TERRIBLE.
In CorelDraw, you can start off with a box;
In CorelDraw, you can start off with a box;
- Single click to select
- Double click to edit
- Triple click to add node
- Right click on any area in a line and you can add a point, curve, etc.
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12" Powerbook will always be the best Apple device I ever owned... Well that and my first gen iPod!
They also acquired the best Word Processor for the Mac (at its time), WordPerfect, but let it languish at its oudated version for the rest of its life until discontinued. It was never ported to OSX.
No, it was a huge headache. Sign makers and pseudo engineers and really low tech graphics companies were the problem for over a decade back in the 1990’s. Very difficult to cooperate and work efficiently with a house that relied on Corel Draw. Probably it’s all better today, just saying that’s how it used to be.
You could hear the moans and groans when we’d hear we were needing to cooperate with some house that only could handle Corel. It really meant we had to accommodate their inadequacies. It was downright stupid.
Corel goes along with amateurs who used to submit text copy in a single cell of an excel spreadsheet for printing! It was bizarre.
Nice to hear you also like OmniGraffle. I was initially skeptical about OG meeting my needs, as Canvas X was pretty deep and could easily go back and forth between vector-based and bit mapped drawing. But now years later, I've settled into OG and am super happy. It's a solid program, well-supported, and IIRC, has never locked up on me.
With Affinity Designer now well established, I think they've left it too late. I found Corel Draw pretty well unusable on a Mac in the old days. The so-called 'Content' will be the same old bloatware – third-rate fonts, useless clip art and a load of photos you'll never want to use.