April 28, 2014 - Day 118 .:
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Once-upon-a-time, I used CorelDraw for all my illustration needs. I switched over to Adobe's CS system after Adobe bought Macromedia and their Creative Suite combined Dreamweaver with Photoshop. However, as Adobe has opted to going the purely subscribe or your software will terminate route with Adobe Creative Commons, I'm looking back and see that Corel is thankfully still going with a standard software model of buy, register, and use all you want. As such, I just downloaded the trial version of CorelDraw X7 and am starting to put it through its paces. As the above screenshot of a Super Soaker 50 shows, CorelDraw X7 is able to open some of my stock water blaster illustrations I created using Adobe Illustrator CS6. There are some oddities in how it handles Adobe's Artboards (CorelDraw splits them into separate pages). Otherwise, things look promising. There are some icons that I don't see in CorelDraw (e.g. icons for merging paths), but the functionality is there, albeit in a slightly different UI form. This will take a little time to get used to again, but for what it's worth, the original iSoaker.com logo and splash-graphic were created in CorelDraw 9.0 back in 2000. How time flies...
