Adobe Goes All-In With Subscription-Based Creative Cloud.....

[ZooCity]

I can see where Corel could make some tweaks win some hearts and market share.


RT Screen Designs
www.rtscreendesigns.com

Yeah some "tweaks"....like having a graphic design program available for use on macs, derrrrr. 

[tpitman]

Corel had a version for the Mac that ran under OS 9. It was about $99 at the time, around 1999 or so. Came with a load of fonts that made it worth it and clip art that was okay. I had it. Might have opened it once or twice, but at the time everything I did was oriented around offset printing. I thought it might come in handy for the occasional .cdr file that a customer would send.

[mk162]

Corel is canadian, I don't think mac's work up there.

I have no idea why Corel doesn't do a MAC version.  One time I sat down with a guy in development and told him what was missing, and he had the balls to disagree with me.  I told him it needed to be a button or a flyout, not a stupid menu item that asks several questions. (find and replace was my biggest complaint).  There is a difference between using software on a daily basis and developing new features....I think i know what I am talking about when I have a problem.

In that aspect Corel is VERY shortsighted.  They could really own a bigger share of the market if they listened better.

[TCT]

Put me down under the not likening it category. But there is not much I could do about it. When I open up Corel, I just stare blankly. Now, I usually stare blankly at the computer, but I at least I come up with something so it sounds like I was focusing. But Corel, I am just lost. I've been using Adobe since high school, it just makes sense.

Has it been confirmed that it runs locally on your machine or is that speculation? If it is not run locally it is a horrible idea. What happens when my connection goes down? That is great Amazon is up 100% but my local ISP is not. We were down for 3 days a few weeks ago, felt like we coulden't do anything. Now we were able to improvise and use paper(remember that) but if we weren't able to output films or do art for those 3 days I coulden't imagine that.

[blue moon]

Put me down under the not likening it category. But there is not much I could do about it. When I open up Corel, I just stare blankly. Now, I usually stare blankly at the computer, but I at least I come up with something so it sounds like I was focusing. But Corel, I am just lost. I've been using Adobe since high school, it just makes sense.

Has it been confirmed that it runs locally on your machine or is that speculation? If it is not run locally it is a horrible idea. What happens when my connection goes down? That is great Amazon is up 100% but my local ISP is not. We were down for 3 days a few weeks ago, felt like we coulden't do anything. Now we were able to improvise and use paper(remember that) but if we weren't able to output films or do art for those 3 days I coulden't imagine that.

everything runs locally. we were without internet when the storm hit east coast for a week and everything worked just fine.  The program checks in every now and then, I don't think we even got any notices when we were off grid.
$30/month buys you access to ALL the software they make, that includes, video, web, photo, mobile and you name it. You download an installer and just click on what you want on your computer. When the upgrades are available, it lets you know and you can choose to upgrade or skip it. From what I've seen, there really is no difference (for all practical purposes).

pierre

[royster13]

Corel Draw only does about 10% of what the Adobe Suite does so it is hardly a fair comparison.....If you can get by with Illustrator then no doubt Corel Draw will be an adequate replacement......But I use InDesign, Acrobat Pro, Dreamweaver, Premier Pro, Bridge, etc., etc.....

And the reason Corel does not have a Mac version is I doubt they could make any money at it.....Yes I am sure in the screen printing industry, Corel is well liked, however, in other graphic arts fields Corel is the "ugly step child"......

[tpitman]

Corel historically had issues in yielding files that worked well in the offset printing biz. As I recall there were postscript issues in particular, and in general the people who bought Corel (outside of screenprint artists) bought it because it was cheap and didn't know what they were doing when it came time to generate art for an offset print job. Microsoft "Publisher" is another thorn in the ass of the offset print biz.
I recently upgraded to CS6, but only the design standard version on disc this time since InDesign, Acrobat, Illustrator and PHotoshop are all I really use. One other plus with the whole "suite" concept is how well the programs integrate.

Speaking of Illustrator, the new "gradient on a path" feature is pretty cool in CS6.