Illustration/Design Software

[Henri Kovalainen]

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

> 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.

 The fact is, that you your other hand is going to rest on the
 keyboard while the other holds the mouse, right? All the hotkeys can be
 typed in by using just a single hand, can't they? And I think that
 you can press these combinations in much faster than poke around
 with a complex cursor or such.

> 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. 

 Hello?! I own coreldraw 7 (and I have used 8 but not as much as 7).
 Sure I have used something I'm about to criticize!

 I don't know about the transparency, but multiple pages are no problem
 under freehand. One thing I have to admit though, is that the corel's
 tracer is better than the one that comes with freehand. But nonetheless,
 waiting for your program is a real timewaster, because the rest is up to
 you.

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