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| From: Corel
Category: Software
List Price: $399.99
Buy New: $395.00
You Save: $4.99 (1%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  49 reviews
Sales Rank: 2930
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows Xp, Windows Xp Tablet Pc Edition
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 8 x 3.1
MPN: cgs12engpc
UPC: 735163100372
EAN: 0735163100372
ASIN: B00014TCTA
Release Date: February 8, 2004
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Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 If Adobe Illustrator makes you crazy... or even if it doesn't July 21, 2005
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Hi,
I've used CorelDraw on the PC since version 1 blew me away at a PC Expo. Since then I have upgraded at least every other version with the only regret being #6. To be fair though, that was the days of the 486 PC and I was asking a lot of the software.
Bottom line, many of Draw's standard features were long after appearing as "major" upgrades to Illustrator. CorelDraw always seems to be ahead of the curve not only feature wise but in ease of use. Even today editing nodes in Illustrator is much more awkward. There are many free resources, tutorials and help available as well as CDUG, one of the friendliest and genuinly helpful user groups around (no flames, newbys welcome).
Yes, keep Illustrator. I use it as my most expensive import / export filter.
FWIW
The best version yet! July 19, 2005
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
I have been a CorelDraw user since version 3, and have owned every version except 6, and even beta tested a couple.
Draw12 is terrific. I use it on a daily basis for everything from technical illustration, to 4-color advertising, to landscape design, and beyond. This version is very stable. The snapping options alone are worth the price of admission. I output prepress PDF files with no problem.
PhotoPaint is also a major player. Somebody complained that an object rotation of less than 90 degrees caused major blurring of the object. I found some blurring to occur, but running the unsharp mask clears it up nicely.
All in all, terrific bang for the buck.
 A great release of Corel Draw. The various naysayers don't know what they are talking about. July 19, 2005
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
CorelDraw 12 is the best bargain in graphics today. It is reliable and very easy to use. You don't have to pay the hefty ransom Adobe demands for Photoshop and Illustrator because CorelDraw can do most of the things that Adobe does with far more flexible and easier-to-master interfaces. This is powerful, first-class software.
For about 1/2 the price of either Photoshop OR Illustrator, you get get top notch bitmap AND vector editing. You also get a slew of good fonts, in both Type 1 and True Type formats, from a variety font vendors including Adobe, Agfa, and Bitstream. These fonts alone are worth the cost of the program.
About the only area where you would need Illustrator instead of CorelDraw is in prepress production, where the Illustrator's ability to open and modify almost any Postscript file is unsurpassed. However, this is also Illustrator's main weakness in that it is so tightly coupled to the Postscript language that the drawing metaphors are very complex and hard to use for creating new art.
With Coreldraw, you can create complex graphics with powerful, wonderfully interactive drawing tools, and a clean, easy-to-master interface.
Photopaint is no poor stepchild to CorelDraw, especially since version 8. It fully supports Adobe Photoshop layers, but Photopaint also supports a much more friendly object-oriented metaphor, where bitmaps can be stacked, aligned and rotated on each other just like vector objects in CorelDraw. Various filters and transparencies can be applied interactively to each object. This makes it much easier to experiment and often results in fewer trips to menus compared to photoshop.
The import/export filters are just fine thank you. CorelDraw writes and reads a vast number of formats including Illustrator, Photoshop (.psd), postcript, pdf, and CAD files with good accuracy. I don't know what is wrong with .pdf support because CorelDraw makes excellent PDFs with plenty of control, over font embedding, converting font outlines to curves, bitmap downsampling options, and color conversion.
As a programmer, I love the VBA macro languages used by both Photopaint and CorelDraw. I have used them to automate the creation of web interface elements.
The commercial sign industry uses CorelDraw almost exclusively. If it was as terrible as the Mac/Adobe bigots would have you believe, you would think these vendors would have found some other program by now. It isn't, try the demo and see for yourself.
 Dissatisfied with upgrade July 17, 2005
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
In Photo-paint when rotating 1-bit objects at increments other than multiples of 90 degrees anti-aliasing fails and the object edges become jagged and random artifacts appear in the object background. Version 9 of the software did not have this problem. This is a major problem for those working with black and white images.
After much stonewalling the customer service admitted that they were aware of the problem but had no plan for a fix. I wrote (not email) to president of Corel complaining that they should provide a fix. I received no response.
Version 12 is no great improvement over version 9, and in my case it is worse. The company no longer seems concerned with customer service and a quality product.
 A nightmare in a box July 14, 2005
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
Yikes. Where to begin? Import/Export functions are totally whacked (I dare you to try to import Word tables or use Adobe formats with this release). DRAW still has major problems handling text and, unbelievably, the pdf powers of this app are woefully inadequate. Corel has also set a new level for disaster by making this product incompatible with not only Adobe and MS formats, but also with previous versions of CorelDRAW (text distortion is a big problem here). No wonder professional designers and service bureaus shun all things Corel. This product should have been released on April Fools Day.
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