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Next stop, Print Shop and breaking out my Dot Matrix to make a Happy Birthday sign!

PrintShop Pro..... now there's a blast from the past! And seeing colour come out of my ImageWriter printer... oh, I was the envy of my peers in those days!
[doublepost=1552422730][/doublepost]Huh, I didn't know that Corel was a Canadian company. That's cool.
 
They're a bit late to the party. Affinity is the strongest contender now, and with Affinity Publisher soon coming out of beta they will have 3 strong apps which are also affordable
I mean, I'm a big fan of Serif's product line and use Affinity Photo and Designer exclusively by now, but the word "soon" has become meaningless in the context of these programs.

Affinity Publisher still has no definitive release date after being in beta for the better part of a year by now, and the urgently needed updates for Photo and Designer to fix features that have been broken by Mojave – released almost six months ago! – are still nowhere to be seen.
 
Corel: We're back, baby!
A new generation of Mac users: new Mac. Who dis?
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Ha! Remember when Word for Mac came on about sixty 2.5" floppies? Those were the days.
Aldus PageMaker was the same. Floppy after floppy...
 
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I've just installed the trial on my Late 2013 MBP. It's very slow, eats CPU cycles and memory like crazy. The latest Illustrator CC flies on the same computer. Let's hope they'll improve it soon.
 
Corel Draw was one of the only competitors to Adobe Illustrator in the past, as a vector program. Corel Painter is more like Photoshop, a raster program, but, it focuses on paper textures and organic brushes that don't look generic. Corel Painter is most fun with something like a Wacom tablet that has multiple levels of pressure.

For me, Corel Painter is something you use to paint. Then, save it as a .tif file and open/edit it inside Photoshop.
Corel Draw is meant for vectors.

If I remember correctly, Illustrator always seemed to have more features and be more versatile than CorelDraw. However, I think CorelDraw had some Type/Text editing and envelope features where you could distort letters, but in ways that Illustrator couldn't quite do.

Although I use Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop CC every day, I think some parts of the Creative Cloud apps have become more buggy. I've had multiple hour-long chats with technical support to get some basic features to work properly. Because of that, I think it's healthy if Adobe has some basic competition.

Obviously, there is competition from Affinity Designer, Procreate, and others in the mobile/desktop area. For me, the big question is, did Adobe enter the mobile marketplace too late, and Affinity and Procreate now have loyal users who will fight to the death defending them. I know many younger designers who gravitated to Procreate because of the illustration features...those same designers would never use a program for their illustration in the past. I don't think any Adobe mobile app will get them back. Even a full version of Photoshop on the iPad Pro isn't what they're looking for anymore. They want their illustration to look and feel like it does on paper. Somehow, Procreate has done that for them.

I own them all and experiment with them. Adobe Sketch was smart to create a series of more organic brushes, some of them from a freelance illustrator who did a nice job with some textures and a wider variety. That's interesting, if people even know they exist.
 
Unless I am reading it wrong on their website, the $499 gets you:
Main Applications
  • CorelDRAW® 2019 – Vector illustration and page layout
  • Corel PHOTO-PAINT® 2019 – Image editing
  • Corel Font Manager™ 2019 – Font Exploration and management tool
  • PowerTRACE™ 2019 – Bitmap-to-vector tracing (included as part of CorelDRAW 2019 application)
  • Connect Content – Content finder (included as part of CorelDRAW 2019 application)
  • CorelDRAW.app™ – online graphic design via web browser
  • AfterShot™ 3 HDR* – RAW photo editor
  • BenVISTA PhotoZoom Pro 4* – Plug-in for enlarging digital images
Content*
  • 7,000 clipart, digital images, and vehicle wrap templates
  • 1,000 high-resolution digital photos
  • Over 1,000 TrueType and/or OpenType fonts
  • 150 professionally designed templates
  • Over 600 fountain, vector and bitmap fills
Which, at that point, isn't too bad of a price.

Yes, sure better than being locked into a monthly fee forever.
 
Corel Draw, it was never the friend of prepress, or a contender against Freehand, it's UI was abysmal and sop unintuitive, so a lot would have had to change for anyone having used it way back to think about touching it again I reckon.
 
Corel Draw, it was never the friend of prepress, or a contender against Freehand, it's UI was abysmal and sop unintuitive, so a lot would have had to change for anyone having used it way back to think about touching it again I reckon.
I'd imagine a lot has changed in 20 years.
 
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
There are so many legacy Mac programs that I really miss. I designed my entire current timber frame house, down to every single joint and floor tile, and every single kitchen cabinet piece using Deneba CAD. It’s unbelievably gone, along with the amazing relational database ACIUS 4D, HyperCard, etc. that I spent countless hours learning, and then these wonderful programs just disappeared.
 
For those of us in the vinyl cutting/laser engraving industry, CorelDraw is THE go to graphics package. It will be interesting to see if the laser engraving machine manufacturers scramble to create print drivers now for the Mac? This could welcome in a relatively substantial user base to the Mac that was leery of the perceived complexities of VMWare Fusion/Parallels, etc. Worth tinkering with for a couple of weeks! Hopefully, I will be delighted!
 
Corel Draw has a large following in some specialized industries. I think sign makers use Corel nearly exclusively. The vinyl cutting software, I'm told works with Corel files although some use Inkscape. There are likey other small niche industries that use Corel too. Fonts and the abilty to trace bitmapped images to convert to vector are important to people who make signs

Yes, back in the day....Family owned a sign & graphics shop and Coreldraw was the standard.

I remember we started with the Apple IIe...wow..no scanners existed yet and created computerised artwork, spending hours (and long nights) digitizing point by point for logos etc...to cut vinyl or do anything else graphically...

I remembering trying to talk my dad into going back to mac for illustrator...(wish we did...), but for the niche industry that we were in at the time and with all of the output hardware that only interfaced with DOS (then to Windows 1.0, 2.0 then 3.0 and finaly Windows 3.11 based hardware (like the then standard Gerber products), we were stuck with Coreldraw. Not a bad program...but ALOT of headake interfacing with mac based shops and other outputs.

My dad always swore Coreldraw was it with its complete suite package (no one marketed a complete graphic package suite at the time), but after the years of watching the industry grow...personally the mac was (and still) my preference...

But...that could chance once again....:(
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PrintShop Pro..... now there's a blast from the past! And seeing colour come out of my ImageWriter printer... oh, I was the envy of my peers in those days!
[doublepost=1552422730][/doublepost]Huh, I didn't know that Corel was a Canadian company. That's cool.

Corel as a company had troubles in mid 90's and early before and switched owners etc. a few or more times along the years if I can remember correctly. This is why Corel seemed to be "in" and "Out" and "Off" and "On".."Quite" then "Loud" again, but didn"t die.

Too bad..maybe a little late now in the game. But please "stick-it" to Adobe, they deserve it.. :)
 
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!

Amen brother! I’ve been checking Corel’s web site every few months hoping this day would come.
 
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.

It is a bad sign for a company when users begin assuming negatively about its products and offerings.
 



Canadian software company Corel today announced that CorelDRAW has returned to the Mac for the first time since 2001.

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The all-new 2019 version of the graphic design software suite is compatible with not only Windows but also Mac, complete with support for Dark Mode on macOS Mojave and the Touch Bar on the latest MacBook Pro models, providing quick access to layout settings, text controls, and more.

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2019 for Mac adheres to Apple's Human Interface Guidelines, meaning that menus, buttons, labels, and other user interface elements are consistent with Apple's first-party Mac apps.

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CorelDRAW is best known for vector graphic design and illustration, but it can also be used for page layout, layer-based photo editing, RAW image processing, indexing and organizing font libraries, and more. The suite will compete with the likes of Adobe Illustrator and Affinity Designer on Mac.

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2019 for Mac is available now for $499 as a one-time purchase or $198 per year on a subscription basis via Corel's online store in the United States. The suite can also be downloaded from the Mac App Store and activated via in-app purchase. Access to the new web-based CorelDRAW.app is included.

macOS Sierra or later is required.

Article Link: CorelDRAW Returns to Mac After Nearly 20 Years With macOS Mojave Dark Mode and Touch Bar Support
Bring back Freehand!
 
Strange how this discussion about the new version of CorelDraw turned into an extensive trip down memory lane. ;)
 
I mean, I'm a big fan of Serif's product line and use Affinity Photo and Designer exclusively by now, but the word "soon" has become meaningless in the context of these programs.

Affinity Publisher still has no definitive release date after being in beta for the better part of a year by now, and the urgently needed updates for Photo and Designer to fix features that have been broken by Mojave – released almost six months ago! – are still nowhere to be seen.

What features were broken in particular ? I have not stumbled on any problems but I am a very light user of the apps.
 
What features were broken in particular ? I have not stumbled on any problems but I am a very light user of the apps.
Metal compute acceleration and (parallel) batch processing in Photo, several interface issues in both.
 
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