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Corel is already looking at an uphill battle to stay relevant and survive. IMHO, they need to be doing more to strengthen the drawing toolset rather than throwing in things, like QR Code generation, that are arguably wasteful fluff. Painter is a great program, but it is not a substitute for...

Just had an update for CorelDRAW X6 pushed to my computer: Hotfix 1 of X6.4. Haven't had much time to mess with it just yet, but it seems like the flaky type handling has been improved to some degree. I'm not sure if this bug fix will affect whether I try out CorelDRAW X7 or not. We'll see.

Corel isn't getting rid of the perpetual license buying option anytime soon. However, they may stop selling boxed software soon. I wouldn't be surprised if X7 is the last version available to buy with physical media (DVD-ROM discs) and printed manuals. Regarding the upgrade price, CorelDRAW...

CorelDRAW has certain parallel extrusion "block shadow" effects not supported in Illustrator. I'll use those on occasion creating graphics, isometric 3D views of signs and drawings of channel letters. The 3D extrusion effects in Illustrator only have vanishing point based 3D, no parallel...

My current work computer, bought Nov. 2012: Dell XPS 8500 Special Edition Win 8 Professional 64-bit Intel Corel i7-3770 quad core 3.4GHz 2TB 7200rpm SATA 6 Gb/s Hard Disc with Intel SRT 32GB Solid State Hard Disc 24GB DDR3 1600MHz SDRAM RAM Blu-ray BD-RW Drive nVidia GeForce GTX 660 1.5GB...

I'm only thinking about getting the CorelDRAW X7 upgrade to hopefully overcome a couple bugs I've endured with X6. Reverting to X5 or earlier wasn't an option since I'm using a new PC running Win 8 Pro. A couple of the updates with X6 did more to break things than improve the application, like...

The Pantone +336 series is a supplemental set of colors added to the Pantone+ swatches. A new set of Pantone spot color swatches will have the normal books for coated and uncoated spot colors. The 336 series is in a smaller, separate swatch book.

Yes, that's my question I posted in Adobe's Illustrator forum. I've seen similar questions in the same forum as well as the InDesign forum. No decent answers provided. The +336 colors thing is a real monkey wrench of sorts that can be thrown into the design machinery. Even if Illustrator can...

Early last year Pantone added a "+336" supplement to the Pantone+ spot color library. I haven't really thought much of it until a couple customers started specifying colors in that range. Since then it has created some serious headaches. I assumed Adobe Illustrator CC would already have the...

If the Illustrator CC file will not open in CS6 at all I suspect the person who created the .AI CC file saved it without PDF compatibility. Regarding Creative Cloud, we use enough different Adobe applications to justify the full subscription on two computers. I use Photoshop & Illustrator the...

Lack of forward compatibility has been standard in Adobe Illustrator from one version to the next for as long as I can remember. The same thing goes for CorelDRAW. You can't open files saved in a newer version. If the person who created the .AI file saved it with PDF compatibility then there's...

This one is really bugging me, because I actually worked with the typeface in the attached sample on a project several years ago. For the life of me I just can't remember what it is. I keep thinking the typeface is perhaps something from an old version of CorelDRAW or maybe Freehand. Ugh! Oranda...

I, too, thought at first it was some variant of Times or Times New Roman with a stroke applied to it. The characters in Times are just too different. Actually, Georgia Bold is the nearest match I have found to the typeface used on that Restroom sign. There's just some very slight differences...

Adobe isn't going to abandon the Mac platform unless the executives at Apple do something stupid enough to give Adobe a very good reason to do so. Make no mistake about it, Adobe absolutely is one of the companies that made owning a Mac a must for graphics work back when the desktop publishing...

I need some help with identifying a typeface that looks very familiar, but isn't really. It looks kind of like a cross between Times and Century Schoolbook but with more of a slab serif feel. At first I thought someone merely artificially thickened Times to make it look more bold, but that's not...

Regarding the maximum art board size differences between Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW, one of the reasons why there is such a big difference has to do with how each application handles math units. Adobe is obviously more geared to smaller things. You can enter object dimensions out to four...

I absolutely will not try to open (or import/place) a CorelDRAW .CDR file into Adobe Illustrator. Not after the hassle I went through last March. I used to have few problems at all opening CorelDRAW .CDR files directly into Illustrator. The .CDR files would open just fine if saved to version 10...

I've been using both CorelDRAW and Adobe Illustrator together in sign work for nearly 20 years. Both applications have their own strengths, weaknesses, bugs and handy unique features not found in their rival application. Being able to use the best features of both applications gives me more...

The funny thing is some of these people who take photos of their computer screen don't want to bother using the PrtScn key and clipboard after you tell them how to do it. They're just more "comfortable" taking the more cumbersome route, often delivering extremely stupid looking results. It's...

QR Code generation isn't nearly enough to some premium subscription with Corel. Besides, if I need a QR code I can generate one for free at a number of different web sites, such as http://qrcode.kaywa.com/. Font playground feature? Meh. IMHO Corel goofed up a lot more than they fixed with the...