Drawing program update

[ffutures]

I've ordered a copy of Corel Draw 12 - if it doesn't translate my old files it's too bad, I can continue to use Micrografx for the older stuff if needs be. But I get the impression that for the sort of accurate work I want to do Corel is probably a better bet.

Comments

[saranjeuhal.livejournal.com]

Corel is a good choice as it's incredibly powerful, and certainly not as expensive as Adobe products. I've been using it for years myself, and it's been handing for doing a lot of things.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I've yet to hear a bad thing about it apart from the learning curve, and I'm usually OK in that respect once I've bitten the bullet and paid money for software - I'm a mean bastard.

[saranjeuhal.livejournal.com]

I've used Corel for years, all the way from version 2. Once you get the hang of how it does things, you can use it for practically anything. Draw is very powerful, as is Photopaint (and a darn fine Photoshop replacement). There's also a nice bundle of fonts that come with it.

The only problems we've ever had have been occasional crashes when there's been some conflicting program running at the same time. Make sure you activate autosave and boost the amount of memory available for the program to use. You'll find that should help a lot.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Thanks, knew there was a reason why I boosted the PC to 2 GB! Since I've run an early version in 256 MB that will hopefully be enough.