Corel Announces CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5

Hi,

I am looking for something that I could use to design invitations. I want to be able to design them and post them on a website that will enable people to download and print them for free. Is this something I could use to do this?

Yes! And so much more. It’s an extremely economical yet massively powerful Graphic Design tool. I work with Adobe Suites and CorelDraw Suites. Coreldraw outperforms Adobe’s functionality / price. You’ll love it.

You will love Corel…I’ve used it since Corel 3 and then switched out to all Mac computers because it was the “thing” if you are any sort of Graphic Designer. Meh. I found out real quick that Adobe has it’s pros and cons and I’ve tossed it aside and use Fireworks 8 to get most of my simple jobs done as Illustrator likes to suck down my memory. OH and Illustrator CS3 didn’t like the Intel Macs either and I’m stuck using it on an older Mac that’s not portable :/.

From an economical standpoint, Apple beats PC hands down. I got tired of replacing PCs like candy each year-crap parts/monitors etc. I have Macs that are 3, 5, & 6 years old on a network and they run smoothly EXCEPT for they don’t run my beloved COREL Draw X4. I have to use an inexpensive Toshiba laptop to use it.

Corel DOES what I want it to and I don’t have to go and search HOW TO Guides like I do with Adobe products. They are NOT intuitive. The Trace function in Corel is awesome.

You will find ALSO that many printing companies use COREL for their large scale format SOLEY. Don’t be surprised if you find your self designing a simple business card and it leads to tackling a small company’s billboards and other marketing.

Don’t let hootie tootie designers talk you into Adobe to follow the crowd. Corel is awesome and affordable. Your work will shine through either product. It’s WHAT you create and pleases your client, not the brand of software.

Macs are over priced computers. I own a tosjhiba and it works grea. If you do graphic work don’t be sucked in by a mac and adobe products and just cause you can does not mean you should. i know ppl who use pc for grahpic design and they work great so even though i use an i pod that is onnly cuase know one else has the gigs the i pod has if sony or panasonic or pioneer made a mp3 player with lots of gigs they could blow the comp away who better to know about music then sony pioneer or any other electronic music company but the do not have the space like i pod. any way i want to buy coreldraw x5 so thanks for the reviews. and if the only reason you buy mac is cause they don’t get virus then you are a fool ppl will make a virus for them soon enough in fact there is what like 2 out that i know of. Any way my toshiba is 8 gigs and runs fatser then myx’s old ladys new mac witch cost 3 grand almost with out adobe that she needs to keep up with in the computing world she says to compete. so that is like another thousand for it and you know what i bet tit cost nothing to make new versions of any computer softwear why cause the base program is made. youy just have to add updates unless you make a whole new program and if your a comkputer geek i am ssure it is easy i tried adobe photo shop and it was and is hard to use unless you go to college wicht my old lady did to learn it 4 years to learn a program i don’t have four years to lear a program maybe like six months. so i will buy coreldraw x5 i use to use word perfect when i was a kid and it was good it just matters on who gets to the matket first who gets the pie bhut apple was out befor pc’s and they faild to an afordable pc for ppl to buy ..

** Yes! And so much more. It’s an extremely economical yet massively powerful Graphic Design tool. I work with Adobe Suites and CorelDraw Suites. Coreldraw outperforms Adobe’s functionality / price. You’ll love it. **

You’re flat out of your mind cosimo, to say that CorelDraw suites “out-perform” Adobe suites.

CorelDraw is “fair” as far as compared to Adobe. CorelDraw X5 is really a “poor man’s Adobe Illustrator” … and that’s kinda slapping Ai in the face a bit.

You probably cannot afford Adobe so therefore you justify what you want to think.

sheeeeesh!

I work with both Adobe and corel in the sign/print industry and I have to say illustrator just doesn’t cut it in the design for sign stakes. Try to make a page 12metres x 2metres to PDF for digital output. (oh you can’t, but that is the size of the sign I want). Corel does this really well. Its pointless having a lovely design created in illustrator by illustrator diehards if you cant print it out for the customer. I CAN afford both and have both cs4 and corel x5 for customer compatability and yet I still use corel to design even though I have used both since illustrator started. Agreed that the term “outperforms” is incorrect as Illustrator has its place, usually for dinky A4 to A1 posters, booklets, flyers etc. but corel is more flexable for the real sign industry stuff.

It is hard to download this Apllication even the free trial..

.. is there an easier why?,,,

i can’t do my project!!!

In the early years Corel Draw certainly impressed me more than Ad0be Illustrator. It seemed miles ahead of Illustrator. But Corel Draw was always extremely unstable and still is as of X5. Corel Draw has it’s place and so does Illustrator. I wish Corel was more competitive. Adobe has of course won this war and Corel doesn’t even appear to be competing anymore. Certainly, they stopped trying with Photopaint at version 8.

It’s nice that Corel Draw dabbles in things like page layout, labeling, print merge, and making business cards etc. I’ve used all of those things in the past and was happy to be able to. But I would take a professional page layout program over Corel’s dabbling in page layout any day. Illustrator was in the past more lean in terms of features. Today, it’s not so lean, but it’s focus is different than Corel’s. I started as a big fan of Corel Draw and and eventually changed over to being primarily an Illustrator user for vectors, but I still use Corel Draw for certain things. Photopaint is just trash though. It’s really too bad. It was the only application that ever even attempted to compete with Photoshop. And these days, Adobe is beginning to remind me of Quark.

Is CorelDRAW compatible with Apple computers?

Kai, Only in the sense that Macs can run Windows (boot camp or virtual machine).

*CorelDraw is “fair” as far as compared to Adobe. CorelDraw X5 is really a “poor man’s Adobe Illustrator”

Poor man’s? No. Frugal? Maybe. I saved $1200 on X5 over CS5 and $1000 on the computer I custom built over a Mac. Whatever should I do with the extra $2200? hmmm.

Corel works, it is economical and will do everything, 95% of the users, will ever need it to do. It’s just that simple. At $499.00 Full version, It’s 30% cheeper than stand alone photoshop, or stand alone Illustrator… but the thing is… it you combine them into a creative suite package(similar to how Corel Draw has always done it) and that $499 corel draw is competing with a product that costs at least… $1299.00 and it’s upgrade costs start at $500.00 and can reach as high as $1200.00.
Corel is really easy going about their upgrades, you ever owned a version of corel draw 1X on, you can upgrade for one price currently $199.00 ( But sales can be found on this too!) Yes it is PC only, and my guess is thats the main reason it has been so overlooked. But it can run on macs threw bootcamp, or an emulater. and at the cost savings… it might be worth buying the extra software.

I think Corel needs a good swift kick to the *ss. In these tough economic times, they could at least try to be more competitive with Adobe. The Corel suite is a huge bargain when compared to Adobe, and yet Corel doesn’t aggressively market that fact. Nowadays, Corel comes off as nothing more than a money machine, instead of the awesome software company that they once were. And as for their obvious abandonment of Photo-Paint, it’s a shame… a damn shame. As another poster more or less stated, at one time Photo-Paint was the closest competitor to Photoshop. But since version 8, Corel seems to have ignored the program.
Come to think of it, the whole Corel experience has gone to crap over the years.

The 2 programs I miss most on the Mac are Coreldraw and Qimage. Been using Coreldraw from 2.0 to now on my PCs and it blows away Adobe Illustrator. I disagree… Corel is NOT a poor man’s program by any stretch.

Coreldraw also works with very little memory on PCs. Illustrator does not. Illustrator would NOT load a 4′x6′ poster I made for my daughter’s graduation. It had 64 photos embedded inside the file and Corel loaded it without a glitch.

Otherwise after 30 years on PCs I have switched to Macs only. With adequate memory Corel and Qimage both run under facilitating programs on Macs just fine.

Macs are just plain more intuitive than PCs… including the great programs that are INTEGRATED with the hardware. As for costs- you are missing a LOT if you don’t think about the standard stuff INCLUDED on Macs: Garage Band, iPhoto, iMovie, iTunes, iWeb, iChat, built-in Apps like Grab, ColorSync, Airport, Raid utility, Network utility, and many others… comparables on a PC would add up to hundreds of dollars… and they are all standardized to import / export across the OS and within each other easily! Not possible on a PC.

Not to mention that there is no ridiculous registry file to bog down and control the programs. Wanna uninstall a program- just ERASE it! Too simple.

Yes, guys! Corel – the favourite, the best!!
I’ve started my graphics career from 3-d version many years ago.
People, I need advice. How to manage a memory quotation in X5?
There’s not the option in Customisation panel. In X3 it was.
I’ve got 12 Gb of memory on board. But I don’t know what quantity Corel X5 uses.