mart44
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Post by mart44 on Feb 15, 2024 20:59:00 GMT
After a lot of deliberation, I have bought the CorelDRAW Suite. I started using version 4 of this software when I first got a computer in 1995 (Windows 95 upgraded from Windows 3.11). I had to settle for the Home & Student versions for years because of the full version's cost. I'm only a hobbyist after all.
CorelDRAW has gone subscription in recent times but they sell a perpetual licence for the 2023 release, so that's the one I got. A great bit of software. I'm over the shock of paying for it now. Well, I can't go on holidays and have to stay close to home so heck, I have to spend my money on something.
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Chris
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Post by Chris on Feb 16, 2024 20:35:04 GMT
Martin, I hope you enjoy many years of happy editing! I admire the vector creations you have posted.
I started with CorelDraw suite 9 during the years of Windows 98. Later I upgraded to 11 and then X4 which I was quite happy with. I finally upgraded to suite X8 to get compatibility with Windows 10. I still have not realised its full potential and mainly use it for printing, making pdf documents, tracing bitmaps to vectors some and basic designs. While the colour management is not the easiest to work with, its the best program I have found for printing bitmaps and shapes to within a hairbreadth of what you actually want to see on the printed page. What I also like is that the "page" is not a canvas with a fixed resolution like photoshop. Each bitmap can have a different resolution on the same page and can be moved around with ease.
Kind regards
Chris
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mart44
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Post by mart44 on Feb 16, 2024 21:18:42 GMT
It is a complex program that has many hidden features. I've got it running om Windows 11 with all updates done. An i7 processor and 16GB of RAM. Even so, the program has crashed once. Maybe understandable because I was trying a few different operations at once. When I opened the program again, it had created an auto-backup and I was able to carry on from where I was when the crash happened. I thought that was pretty good.
The newer versions of CorelDRAW give the option of a dark interface with all icons and menu text sizes variable. Makes it a lot easier on the eyes with higher resolution monitors (QHD 2560 x 1440). That's a couple of features the Home & Student versions don't come with. All in all, I'm happy with it. The perpetual licence version is pricey though.
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