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No, it's not the same when it comes to Adobe. That would only be the case if CorelDRAW had an equal share of the professional graphics market with Adobe Illustrator. It doesn't. The lock-in issue with Adobe is more severe because many national companies build up their brand assets in Adobe's...

Corel doesn't have as much "Vendor Lock-In" hanging over its user base as it might think. Corel needs those users far more than the users need Corel. The important thing is no CorelDRAW user is under any obligation to keep upgrading to the latest version. They can keep using an old version, even...

If the sale of Corel from Vector Capital over to KKR goes through the end result will likely be Corel having over a $1 billion worth of debt added to its balance sheet. And that will give the new owners (another "vulture capital" company) more incentive to try various, possibly destructive...

I never said Adobe Illustrator was more customizable than the Windows version of CorelDRAW. But the fact remains you can add or remove many palettes and/or tools in a given workspace. Plus Illustrator has 9 different pre-set workspaces you can choose as a starting point. One thing I don't like...

Attitudes of Apple fans/snobs in 2002 was an external factor, a serious one, but still external. I was only referring to issues with the actual CorelDRAW application. In 2002 it certainly didn't help Corel any to release a crudely ported Mac version of their program into a platform with a lot...

The Mac version of CorelDRAW 11 (2002) suffered from different issues than the new Mac version of CorelDRAW 2019. The big criticism of CorelDRAW 11 back then was the application was nothing more than a crude port of the Windows program over to OSX. CorelDRAW 11 is one of the versions I skipped...

Currently the big problem is CorelDRAW 2019 is buggy as hell. I'm not using that version, but from what I understand, aside from the bugs and other performance issues (especially on the Mac side), Corel has stripped down some functions and features of the program. So that makes matters even...

I think one of the problems is these clowns in big city governments (or snotty rich suburb governments) are woefully out of touch. My theory is they think most sign companies are big operations with lots of employees, including lots and lots of staff to wrangle with bureaucratic red tape. It...

It looks like some flavor of Century Old Style to me.

Obtaining installation permits seems to be more of a chore than ever. The requirements vary city by city. Some are super strict and require a whole bunch of red tape garbage submitted. Others aren't so bad. Generally smaller, less affluent towns tend to be easy on sign companies unless the...

Just to repeat what others have said, Flash-based drives are not reliable for long term storage. That especially goes for those little USB memory sticks. Those things SUCK for any kind of long term storage. You never know when they're going to get corrupted. Last summer I got pretty peeved...

Expo is a knock-off clone of Estro.

Which drawing application are you going to adopt once CorelDRAW is only available via subscription or forced yearly upgrades on a "non subscription" perpetual license?

I guess you didn't read the full sentence, missing the part about "or any other number of rival applications." Regardless of the situation with Adobe and other software vendors I think the folks at Corel (or rather Vector Capital and KKR) are going to shoot themselves in the foot and...

Unfortunately hedge fund bean counters think they know more about running any kind of business than anyone else. So the ones running Corel will probably not heed any warnings at all in how risky their new "strategy" might be. Specific knowledge of a given industry doesn't matter to them...

I think the $16.50 per month subscription price is a rip-off; it's actually billed annually at $198. I think a $99 per year price would be far more appropriate for what the user is getting in that suite. Their "upgrade protection" plan lets perpetual license users basically get a $99 per year...

Corel will not disable any existing perpetual license of CorelDRAW if the user doesn't join the program to pay for forced upgrades every year. Corel has been fairly clear and up front about that. If you don't want to buy any upgrades you can keep on using the existing copy of CorelDRAW you own...

It's an extra bold weight of Clearface Gothic. Someone stretched and slanted it though.

Shortly after Amiable Technologies merged with Scanvec (to become Scanvec-Amiable and later SAi) they converted most (but not all) the proprietary .SCF font package files to True Type Fonts. We still have a couple of the Flexi Fonts 2000 (as in year 2000) CD-ROM discs in our shop. A few weights...

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