I'm not in any hurry to install the new version considering all the hassles I see people having with it, based on posts at the CorelDRAW user forums.
Are there any actual new features or improvements included with this "upgrade?" Corel's web site is not very clear on this at all. I saw a mention of a "print to PDF" feature. That's not exactly blowing any wind in my sails considering what the annual subscription costs: two apps for $269. I may have to switch our remaining subscription licenses to the buy once option and be done with it for a few years.
The buy once is a relatively new feature...did it return with this 2025 version? It was only a few years back they eliminated it and forced us all to subscribe. I used to just buy when I saw that something I wanted was being included, or for better .ai or .pdf import capability.
The biggest new "feature" is CorelDRAW Web . This is what they say it is:
Expand your artistic universe with
CorelDRAW Web, a powerful browser-based version of CorelDRAW for flexible creativity. Available exclusively to subscribers, CorelDRAW Web offers the full CorelDRAW experience in the cloud, enabling you to design without limitations, beyond the desktop.
I just took that feature for a test drive. It opens in a browser, and runs CorelDRAW from the web. As you might imagine, this makes things painfully slow. It appears that, like in a game, features download as you use them. It's the same UI, largely. It uses its own set of fonts, some of which are familiar, but almost all of which have unfamiliar names. Not sure if you can use fonts from your own computer or not. Didn't play with it long enough. Some keyboard shortcuts I use, like CTRL-PageDown to move an object back, don't work; that one makes the whole browser move behind other windows. Once you finish a layout you save it to a cloud (and a copy is also saved to your browsers Downloads folder).
Personally I cannot see the use case for this, since once I leave the shop I don't design anything or do anything that has to do with creating layouts. Maybe someone would need to ability in to use CorelDRAW on a computer that they don't install it on, but not in my sign shop.
