Corel Draw Alternatives

[PhoneTeck]

I work in a school district as a pc technician and one of our labs runs corel draw 10 on Windows 2000 machines, we have a big problem on how buggy corel draw acts. Are there any other applications out there that does exactly or close to what corel draw does?

This is what the teacher in the classroom had to say:

Corel isn't a "photo editing program" like Adobe Photoshop. Adobe hasn't the tools and functions that Corel has. Yes, you can do photo edit in Corel, but it is a graphics design program. You can build art from scratch including typography, etc. One of the exercises is to replicate a piece of clip art with the various layers and shapes. You can do this with Corel.

 

[Pixelchik]

Adobe Illustrator is similar to CorelDraw. With regard to Corel's bugginess, do you have all the latest patches/fixes for Corel 10? I use CorelDraw 11 almost everyday and I don't have alot of problems with it. I also use Illustrator everyday, but CorelDraw has certain features that Illustrator does not have, so I go back and forth between the two.

 

[PhoneTeck]

Yes I went and got all of the patches for it, im curious if the newer versions are more stable. Also one other question has been asked can you lock the corel toolbars so they cant be moved around?

 

[PhoneTeck]

Just thinking about it, does Corel draw need administrator rights, are users login to a default account where they are power users.

 

[Brushman]

Corel V10 was a 'dog' of a version V11 was vastly superior in reliability and V12 argueably better still. Photopaint is your photo editor and any bitmap can be edited in Draw by double clicking or right click - left click 'edit bitmap' this will launch Photopaint with your bitmap there - work on bit map, this is placed back into Draw on closing Photopaint. Your toolbars can be dragged around - added to - deleted or pushed to the top or side bar where they will lock into position. I recommend you upgrade, once you learn Corel Draw or Paint it is unlikely you will have the need for anything else.
Alan D

 

[javabearSTL]

Well, the teacher did say a correct statement: "Corel isn't a photo editing program." Of course not. Corel is a company just like Adobe is a company. Corel Photopaint, however, is a photo editing app and a very good one at that.

Dan Margulis, a PS guru/evangelist, gave this review of Photopaint 11 a couple of years back:

http://ep.pennnet.com/Articles/Arti...on=Display&ARTICLE_ID=151632&KEYWORD=margulis

In it, he has comments like these taken from the article:

"[R]each the elite, and you reach the masses—is proven by Photoshop. We are accustomed to think of it as having a near-monopoly on high-end image manipulation, but in fact it has a longstanding contender with a nontrivial market share, a contender that in some ways is a better application than Photoshop itself is."
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"I've already noted how Paint's handling of dust and scratches is better than Photoshop's. It also has an unbelievable 11 additional blur filters with some degree of user control, several more than Photoshop."
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"Similarly, Paint's mask generator can be, in the proper hands, a more powerful selection tool than anything Photoshop has."
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"Ask Paint to save a TIFF, and you get a real TIFF, not one of the only-for-Adobe-apps versions that Photoshop 7 tries to trick us into using."

For more, just read the article. Dan also notes what he feels are deficiencies, too, so don't think it's a fluff piece.