Corel 2025

[John Miller]

If you have upgraded to Corel 2025, what do you think? Any bugs, other issues? I'm not a big believer in paying monthly for software. They just sent me an offer to buy it, pay once with no monthly payments. I'm tempted but would rather not get tangled up in a poorly running version. What's the consensus?

 

[yetti320]

What are your options? How much design work do you do?

 

[John Miller]

I use Corel x6 which works fine. I don't need their printing tools. I use it for sign design with type, I don't use it for illustration.

 

[Ronny Axelsson]

If you are happy with what you've got, there no need to upgrade I guess.
But there have been some nice new things added during the years, as well as some UI changes.
I'd say the 2025 version is pretty stable, but we all know that Draw has earned a reputation of crashing now and then, and it can happen also with this version.

Download the trial to see how you like it.

 

[Geneva Olson]

Theres a new text to path feature that's pretty cool

 

[Gwenofeve]

https://inkscape.org/ is free, however we sent our stuff through Flexisign

 

[Geneva Olson]

If you are happy with what you've got, there no need to upgrade I guess.
But there have been some nice new things added during the years, as well as some UI changes.
I'd say the 2025 version is pretty stable, but we all know that Draw has earned a reputation of crashing now and then, and it can happen also with this version.

Download the trial to see how you like it.

My husband's computer was crashing so much from Corel, that we went out and bought a bigger computer.
Shortly after his crapped out, a power outage knocked mine out. So I have a bigger one now too. But I dont do as much big artwork as he does.

 

[Bobby H]

CorelDRAW X6 is a pretty old release (2012). At the CorelDRAW Wikipedia page you can see a simplified list of features added in later releases, version by version:

CorelDRAW - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I use a lot of OpenType Variable fonts; CorelDRAW didn't start supporting those until CDR2020/v22.
If I needed to buy a new version of CorelDRAW I'd strongly consider doing the buy once option and use that version for a few years. I think the subscription price for CorelDRAW is a rip-off. For two actual applications (Draw and PhotoPaint) the annual subscription should be considerably less than $269. A subscription price around $99 (if even that) would seem more fair considering the sheer lack of improvements and new features seen in the last couple or so years.