Academic

[stitches4815]

Besides price, what is the difference between a regular full version of lets say corel and an academic version?  I have always wondered about this but was afraid to ask.

[mk162]

academic doesn't allow the use of macros.  for us that renders the program useless.

[Frog]

Doesn't qualify for upgrades, has no hard copy manual or clip art book, and is usually expressly forbidden to be used commercially.

[stitches4815]

The poor college students are getting ripped of then.

[Frog]

Nope, they're getting 98% of the program at 25% of the price.

Since these versions are meant for academic use rather than a commercial business, and folks of that age generally eschew old fashioned paper copies of things best served digitally anyway, what's the problem?

[Sbrem]

I would recommend buying the Full Monty, so to speak. Then upgrades as necessary.

Steve

[Frog]

I would recommend buying the Full Monty, so to speak. Then upgrades as necessary.

Steve

I assume that your recommendation is for us printers, and not the academic market.
For them, one current version at $95 or so, or even two versions at a total of less than $200 for four years of a slick way to really jazz up presentations, or learn some art techniques is a steal!

[inkman996]

I agree Andy for the price with out visual basic they are forced to learn the deepest secrets of the program inside and out, they can accomplish any thing macros can just in a different way after all macros only make functions easier to access and use but those functions really do exist just not so easily found.

[inkman996]

And to add the lack of their clip art is absolutely no great loss, Corel used to have some decent clip art but thatstped years ago.

[Frog]

I believe that the clipart is there, just not the hard copy book to preview it.