CorelDRAW 10.0 Upgrade Review

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(More customer reviews)As a long time user of CorelDraw software, I have always found CorelDraw and Photo-Paint to be buggy. Fortunately, the depth and breadth of features usually helps to assuage the drawbacks. I recently upgraded from version 8 to version 10 and true to form, had mixed results. Overall, the package seemed to be a little less quirky than previous versions. The Corel interface IS more consistently applied across all applications. Web support and integration IS much better but not nearly as thorough as Macromedia Fireworks and Flash. And there IS more application compatibility and file type support. Nothing in CorelDraw 10 or Photo-Paint 10 are "must haves" (at least not for me) in comparison to version 8.
Corel R.A.V.E. 1.0, the new application in the CorelDraw suite is a very promising animation package but exceptionally buggy and feature poor - even for a new product (see the Corel R.A.V.E. newsgroup at corel.com to get a flavor for the issues). R.A.V.E. generates Flash movies (SWF files) but doesn't stack up to Flash for features, completeness or compactness of rendered files. Of course, to use all of the Flash features, you have to pay a premium price and live through a very steep learning curve. R.A.V.E.'s drastically simpler user interface and added support for SVG file formats (the W3C proposed standard for vector graphics) are good omens for the future - provided SVG can make inroads into Macromedia's dominance of animated vector graphics for the web. Corel is on the right track with R.A.V.E. but it just doesn't measure up to the competition - at least not yet.
The bottom line? CorelDraw 10 and Photo-Paint 10 are topnotch drawing and photo editing software applications that together represent a very good value. If Corel R.A.V.E. was market ready (and it's not), the combination would have been an unbelievable value.

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Add a new dimension to your creativity with CorelDRAW 10 Graphics Suite. Backed by a decade of award-winning creative power, it delivers vector illustration, layout, bitmap creation, image editing, painting, and animation software, all in one package. The enhanced interface, improved customization features, professional output capabilities, and support for text in multiple languages simplify the design process--whether you're creating for print or the Web. And with Corel R.A.V.E., a powerful new animation application, you can change live effects over time, generate a timeline of edited work, create rollover graphics, and convert images to Macromedia Flash SWF format. CorelDRAW 10 Graphics Suite equals true creative power.

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