Illustration/Design Software

[jorgen.bergfors at idg.se]

Well, it might be slower if you are more used to 



On Fri, 24 Apr 1998 jorgen.bergfors at idg.se wrote:

>> May I ask in what way it sucks?

> Corel is just too honking slow to use (if compared to Freehand or
>Illustrator)! Besides, it might be a bit more "starter friendly", but its
>interface gets too complicated when you really start to use it. I use
>Freehand, because it's fast (and when you use it for a while you'll learn
>all the hotkeys etc. so you can work very fluently) and it's a bit
>cheaper than Illustrator. But in my opinion there are no crucial 
>differences between Freehand and Illustrator (except the price).

Well, if you are used to Illustrator, I suppose Corel Draw is slower to use. 
But Freehand need five tools to do basic editing like moving, scaling, skewing, 
rotation and node editing. Corel Draw do it with just two. If you use 
Illustrator, you need no less than nine different tools to do the same things. 
Because changing tools is the main timewaster, this is significant.
No, you clearly haven't used Corel Draw 7 or 8 if you think it is slower than 
Illustrator or Freehand. Actually it is incredibly quick compared to them. And 
then we have the interactive gradient tool, the interactive transparency tool 
and many other timesavers. Illustrator doesn't do transparency at all, and not 
even multiple pages. 
/Jorgen

/Jorgen