Customer Reviews

CorelDRAW 10.0 [OLD VERSION]

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I work with Corel Draw since verson 4, and it has steadily improved ever since!

RAVE ----------------------- When I heard about version 10 I was excited and couldn't wait to get it, especially RAVE. Since I work with Flash 4 and 5 and don't like the interface, I had to have a look at RAVE, which produces Flash, and it was suberb! Soomth, simple interface, fast outputs and errorfree exports. Awesome!

Photopaint ---------------------------- I am laso using Photoshop 5 and got rid of Corel's Photopaint earlier this year - why? Because it's not worth it. The quality of Photopaint is so poor and it is totally useless because the grids and the rulers are no help to produce webgraphic slices and mouseOnOver effects. Photoshop is the only program I use to make web graphics and it is perfect! I do not like Photopaint, because the output quality is totally discouraging and the typography is so terrible I once had to throw away all my graphics. I then did the whole work again with Photoshop and it was perfect!

Draw ---------------------- Corel 9 was somewhat my favorite so far, because coming to a useful graphics was very simple, because of the redesign. Corel 10 has a new interface and it is even easier to drop shadows and alter shades and forms.

All in all it is ver ystable and a little faster than 9. If you used Corel 9 intensively and need suberb vector graphics for printing and desktop publishing, go for it. But forget Photopaint. RAVE is definitely an alternative to Macromedia's, thoughit does not offer command-line ActionScript and is not as complex as Macromedia's Flash program, it can produce simple animations easily.

Corel 10 is the best thing to come along since....well....since Corel 8! :-)

There are a lot of great new features and it's really stable (but still watch out for the patches later on). I especially like the fact that you can publish Flash files and PDF's with ease. And so many people thought that RAVE was going to be an upgrade of the old CorelMOVE, but it's not. They've really created it from the ground up and made a great program for creating animated graphics for the web!

As usual, Corel throws in everything PLUS the kitchen sink. For anyone who is interested in a well-rounded, inexpensive, professional publishing package this is it!! It includes a top-notch vector graphics package (DRAW), a raster (bitmap, photo, etc..) based package (PhotoPaint -- which is as good as Adobe Photoshop), an animated graphics package (RAVE) and a variety of other useful tools for use in image tracing, media management and more.

You would have to spend a couple thousand dollars on other programs to come close to what this suite includes in ONE package! This is a defenite MUST BUY!!!

......here is the deal. What takes 2 hours in Illustrator/Quark and Photoshop can be done in 10 minutes in CorelDraw. Just because it's capibility enhanced Corel 10 has improved its colour issues in this version and now IS the best overall illustration/layout tool in the business of Graphic Design. It took Adobe and Macromedia 5 years to catch up to the technology...

I've used Corel Draw since version 5 and I've always been pretty happy with each release. CorelDraw 10 has all the features I've ever dreamed of and I find myself very productive with it.

The one complaint I have of version 10 is stability, however. I've run it on 3 different PC platforms and find I must reboot after and hour or so of heavy use. I believe there are some big memory leaks in version 10.

There is a service pack now available for version 10 so I'd recommend downloading it and appylying it.

Corel Draw 10 is a substantial upgrade from version 9. The new animated vector graphics tool is the biggest change. The other improvement are more subtle, but really useful. Corel has incorporated many enhancement requests that came up in the newsgroups. Here a few that I found useful:

Corel Draw: handles multilingual documents, better color managment (new integrated interface), error warning through pre-flight control before printing, PDF 1.3 output, roll-over effects, real-time preview of formatting changes.

PhotoPaint: much enhanced text handling and formatting (esp. at small point sizes), totally re-engineered interactive tools in a modular way allowing for easy installation of additional downloadable plug-ins, zooming and panning in real-time, much better handling of very large bitmap files.

The one thing I did not like is the fact that some of the new functions are still somewhat buggy and not always fully reliable. I hope that Corel will quickly release a service pack fixing most of these issues.

Before using Draw 8, I used Illustrator 8 and Freehand 9. Corel
Draw does everything those programs do but better. I've found that Draw is a much more powerful program than Illustrator and Freehand. I can create graphics faster with Corel and it's INTERACTIVE options are awesome. Corel Draw's GUI is vastly superior to Illustrator and Freehand. You won't go back to Adobe and Macromedia's illustration programs after using Corel Draw. There's really no reason.

For experienced and expert CorelDRAW users, version 10 provides true power with huge advantages over applications such as Illustrator (unless you enjoy repetitive tasks). CorelDRAW 10 is a clean release and has been improved with powerusers in mind. PhotoPAINT 10 at least equals Photoshop in its capabilities (for a fraction of the price). And, CorelRAVE is at least as powerful as Flash 5 for 95 percent of current web animation uses. In my estimate, the disgruntled reviewer from Lahaina, HI (below) has a different agenda than simply providing an accurate review of the application. CorelDRAW 10 is simply an outstanding release -- no ifs, ands, or buts.

This is a fabulous upgrade of Corel, and finally they've found a decent animation product that raises the bar in graphics and animation. Easy to use and produces flash files that are truely awesome!!

Corel Draw 10 is a step up, above Corel 9. If you need more features you should buy the upgrade or full version. I have used 9 and have upgraded to 10. I am looking for a lot of good programs out of Corel in 2001 - 2002. Keep up the good work, Derek Burney!

Corel does not back its product. I have a copy which worked fine. Old story, computer crashed, went to reload Corel, a certain file not available, HOURS spent calling Corel tech help. Three months later still no satisfaction. BUYER BEWARE.