Fred Weiss said:
Flexi, IMHO is the best vector creation and editing application ever written. When you get to that part you will see that there is no comparison to Corel.
As far as a poor layout, the Design Central concept is pure genius and if you want it to look like Corel you only need to change the interface preference.
Try this:
Type some text and outline it.
Now resize it.
Now arch it.
Now select the text by swiping it with the text cursor and change the font.
Now do that in Corel.
While there are some things that Flexi does extremely well, your above four step exercise is easier done in Corel. With the possible exception of the outline, and that would depend on the exact context.
Resizing is resizing in either package and only only recently does Flexi support symmetrcal resizing. Corel has done it for eons.
Distorting objects is far more civiized in Corel than Flexi. No comparison.
Changing fonts is changing fonts in either package.
Beyond your list, Flexi's positioning tools are far superior to Corel's.
Corel's node editing is light-years ahead of Flexi's.
Flexi's bitmap tools are primitive compared to those available in Corel.
Flexi's outline and inline tools are far superior than Corel's.
The list of Flexi vs. Corel details is endless. But as far as Flexi being the best vector manipulation package ever written, you've got to be kidding. It's OK, even really good at some specific things, but overall it's not a pimple on the butt of Corel in this department. This isn't product chauvinsim talking, I have both and am intimately familiar with both. Flexi wins the sign-centric context hands down. In pretty much all other contexts Corel is vastly superior.
