CorelDRAW Returns to Mac After Nearly 20 Years With macOS Mojave Dark Mode and Touch Bar Support

[davester]

Prepress operators everywhere are collectivly groaning.

Yep although I’ve not used it in a bureau environment for 19 years

 

[SBMH.online]

As much as I like to hate Adobe CC at times, it’s hard to beat the amount of stuff you get, especially if you work in multiple disciplines. The only way I see Corel getting a real foothold is to offer a comparable suite at a much, much, much better price...

In short, this is setup to fail.

 

[BGPL]

Last time I installed this, I was using a stack of 20 floppy disks... it took a few hours to install. Where have these people been, and how have they sustained themselves for 20 years?

 

[MacBH928]

It surprises me that someone is using this... I wonder what it offers that Adobe can't.

I wonder where they bring all the money from to pay all those programmers that work on this software. That being said it makes me happy to learn there is more competition and an option no to go with 1 company. I really hate oligopolies.

 

[superscape]

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

This is very true.

I've not seen CorelDraw since the mid-90s when I worked at a litho printers. If anyone sent artwork in as CorelDraw, you could almost guarantee a ****-up somewhere along the line. People with authority for purchasing software nowadays are likely to have learned the ropes in those days and have had experiences similar to mine with CorelDraw.

Now, I have no knowledge of their latest offering. It might be amazing for all I know. But so ingrained is the fear of anything called CorelDraw that there's no way I'm going anywhere near it.

*If* they've made radical improvements and it *is* now amazing then they need to rebrand it and distance it completely from the legacy of CorelDraw.

 

[Wash08]

I’m still grumpy that Adobe killed Freehand (aldus then macromedia).

I’d buy freehand in a heartbeat.

Me too, I had all the versions of Freehand until Adobe killed it…and force to used illustrator, never was a big fan of Corel Draw. Now I use Affinity Designer and Photo, aside from some missing features which are coming soon, I think is a solid Freehand successor.

 

[PBG4 Dude]

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!

That's still better than the word processing module running on the Wang minicomputer at my first career job.

 

[jlseattle]

Another subscription model piece of software? Forget about it. I'll buy outright a better drawing product and be done with it.

 

[brenton289]

I guess no one uses it on Windows, so they brought it to Mac to see if anyone here might use it?

 

[Shanghaichica]

Wow. I haven't used this since the summer arts academy I attended in middle school in the late 90s. Blast from the past!

Same! Although I used it on a PC at school in the 90’s.

 

[Kubat]

Great news! Finally something to challenge adobes' subscription nightmare. I know there is Affinity but its not cross platform

 

[Tech198]

Just when you think something has died. it hasn't.. yet

Almost as interesting as IE coming back to Mac.

 

[superscape]

I know there is Affinity but its not cross platform

It supports macOS and Windows, doesn't it???

 

[anika200]

Another subscription model piece of software? Forget about it. I'll buy outright a better drawing product and be done with it.

From the website:
Flexible, affordable purchasing
Choose to own your software outright, or choose a subscription. Plus, businesses and individuals will save when subscribing to CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite, compared to competition with similar feature sets.

 

[captobie]

I think you mean 3.5". You're a noob unless you installed from the 5.25" disks.

Or 8” disks. Long live the TRS-80 Model 16!

 

[Kubat]

It supports macOS and Windows, doesn't it???

Well I'm stumped, I googled it and there is a windows Affinity. I always thought that its a mac only app...

 

[cmaier]

Or 8” disks. Long live the TRS-80 Model 16!

And ibm system 23.

 

[topdrawer]

just tried it and right away it is useless in light mode and i refuse to use dark mode.

all the menu text is black on dark gray background and the icons are white on a light gray background. seems like they only thought about dark mode.

well, actually, it seems to be just on one of my computers.

 

[HiVolt]

Funnily enough, I've heard from a couple of people having switched back to QuarkXpress in the last few years, as they are sick of Adobe's sh— and the current version of Quark is apparently not bad.

It's funny how things come around eh. I was in the world of Quark from 3.3 to 6.0, and then people got sick of Quark's pricing cuz they could get a whole suite from Adobe for the same or less. Now Adobe is forcing the subscription model, and people are going back to Quark, at least for layout needs.

Actually most clients I am dealing with still use CS5/CS6, because they still work and are enough for most layout needs. They still work ok on modern PC's, but not so much on brand new Macs.