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CorelDRAW 8 Bible

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This book is essentially the corel draw manual rewritten for people who like to read, and read, and read and... There is a little bit here one could not get from the manual but it is buried in excess explanation. CorelDraw X the official guide gives you much more and for a lower price. For advanced study go to Corel Draw Studio Techniques and Corel Draw F/X. These are books written by people who actually use, write about, and even teach Corel Draw. The difference is amazing

There is a lack of tutorials on CorelDRAW 8 at this point thus this book fills the gap. But this is not exciting book by any means - if you have not seen the power of DRAW, this book won't make a difference. Besides, the graphics in the book are truly poor (talking about DRAW!) However, the book delivers the promise, to some degree, that it is a "technical" introduction to DRAW's features. Unfortunately nothing about Photo-Paint or 3D part of the package. Buy on your own risk if needed.

I find the book to be informative & useful, we have several different levels of Corel 8 users in our home/office, and the instructions are clear enough for beginners to use without insulting the ability of the more advanced user. The book really builds up the fact that there are "samples" in the book and on the accompanying CD, however I was disapointed in the samples & the CD, which is really full of dead end demos & a couple of photos. As a more advanced user, I prefer: Coreldraw 8 : The Official Guide by Foster D. Coburn, Foster R., III Coburn, Peter A. McCormick, a better book & extras thru the website...like tutorials & seminars taught by the authors. I attended their seminar recently & I have read both books, like the later better...but, if you are fairly new to Corel 8, then I personally believe that The CorelDraw 8 Bible is easier to work thru...I'd compare it to taking classes in school, clear format & easy to understand.

The Coreldraw8 Bible was extremely helpful in guiding this first time user through the steps to use Coreldraw 8. The writing was easy to read, the steps clearly stated and illustrated, and many helpful short cuts were included. The index was extremely well arranged, which to me is a an extremely important tool with reference such as this. CorelDraw 8 Bible made using Corel MUCH easier.