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This is one of the fundamental reasons why I have run both CorelDRAW and Adobe Illustrator alongside each other for many years. The differences between the two programs and how they handle gradient effects has only worsened in recent years. CorelDRAW and Adobe Illustrator apparently use...

This morning I've been having a tough time getting my Creative Cloud control panel to connect with Adobe's servers. See the attached images of what I've been seeing this morning. Adobe's web site hasn't been performing much better. I couldn't get anywhere in it up until a few minutes ago. Now I...

Some of the previous versions of Flexi we bought had many of those old CAS fonts (which we used in CASmate) remastered into TrueType format. The fonts were okay, but the kerning in many of them was pretty bad. They're still nice to have for matching up fonts with really old projects, but that's...

Thanks! I'm glad I picked that type family as one of the bonus options way back with one of those Creative Suite upgrades (CS2 if I recall correctly).

I've complained and made suggestions to both Adobe and Corel about this particular subject since the 1990's. Honestly, I see no legitimate reason why Adobe and Corel can't include an option for sizing type objects according to cap height. Sign making applications like Flexi aren't doing...

It's like the subject line says. A customer gave us a logo, in vector format no less. They want us to use the same typeface on a bunch of other stuff. The trouble is I can't figure out for certain the identity of the typeface. See the attached sample of some letters from the logo. It looks...

I had to perform a couple different updates on my desktop PC running Win 8 Pro in order to run some of the Adobe CC 2014 applications properly, including Illustrator CC 2014. First of all Windows itself needs to be up to date in terms of patches. I updated my video card driver -which seemed to...

Adobe Illustrator is pretty frustrating to use in terms of sizing and positioning letters in terms of capital heights, like 1" tall letters. Adobe Illustrator is not geared for this. It only sizes type according to the size of the invisible em square, not the capital height of the letters. Very...

Thanks, Fred. I knew the typeface was something I had (in this case, fonts bundled in with CorelDRAW). I tried the "What the Font" utility at MyFonts, but it was coming up empty-handed -probably thanks in large part to whoever created the sample art I posted here. They squeezed and stretched...

Hi All, The typeface used in the attached sample looks very familiar (in fact, I'm almost positive it's something I already have), but I just can't seem to figure out the typeface ID for it. TIA.

I see a LOT of customer provided vector art files that are not "vinyl cutter ready" at all. It's pretty common to get files that have the same letters or other paths duplicated on top of each other numerous times. Pen tool strokes do this a lot. The path offset tool is far better for outlining...

Piggybacking onto this thread, I've had some serious system crashes using CorelDRAW X6 on my Win 8 Pro system the last couple of days. I'd be working and then all of a sudden the system would hang completely. Even Ctrl-Alt-Delete didn't work. I'd just have to hold down the power button and...

Anyone dependent on any plug-in/bridge software that runs inside CorelDRAW, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop or any other program like that strongly resist the urge to immediately jump on any upgrades to the latest versions. All too often the latest versions will "break" many plug-ins. And...

That only works to a certain degree. While CorelDRAW X6 can import Adobe Illustrator AI & EPS art files up to version CS5 it is prone to goofing up things like gradient fills. The funny thing is Adobe Illustrator is prone to doing the same thing when opening CorelDRAW .CDR files or...

Corel is already looking at an uphill battle to stay relevant and survive. IMHO, they need to be doing more to strengthen the drawing toolset rather than throwing in things, like QR Code generation, that are arguably wasteful fluff. Painter is a great program, but it is not a substitute for...

Just had an update for CorelDRAW X6 pushed to my computer: Hotfix 1 of X6.4. Haven't had much time to mess with it just yet, but it seems like the flaky type handling has been improved to some degree. I'm not sure if this bug fix will affect whether I try out CorelDRAW X7 or not. We'll see.

Corel isn't getting rid of the perpetual license buying option anytime soon. However, they may stop selling boxed software soon. I wouldn't be surprised if X7 is the last version available to buy with physical media (DVD-ROM discs) and printed manuals. Regarding the upgrade price, CorelDRAW...

CorelDRAW has certain parallel extrusion "block shadow" effects not supported in Illustrator. I'll use those on occasion creating graphics, isometric 3D views of signs and drawings of channel letters. The 3D extrusion effects in Illustrator only have vanishing point based 3D, no parallel...

My current work computer, bought Nov. 2012: Dell XPS 8500 Special Edition Win 8 Professional 64-bit Intel Corel i7-3770 quad core 3.4GHz 2TB 7200rpm SATA 6 Gb/s Hard Disc with Intel SRT 32GB Solid State Hard Disc 24GB DDR3 1600MHz SDRAM RAM Blu-ray BD-RW Drive nVidia GeForce GTX 660 1.5GB...

I'm only thinking about getting the CorelDRAW X7 upgrade to hopefully overcome a couple bugs I've endured with X6. Reverting to X5 or earlier wasn't an option since I'm using a new PC running Win 8 Pro. A couple of the updates with X6 did more to break things than improve the application, like...