hello i'm using coreldraw 9 thinking of upgrading to the lastest and greatest new corel program is it corel12 or is it the new corelx3 could use some advise thanks
Posted by Steve Racz (Member # 4376) on :
Hi John,
The latest version is CorelDRAW X3. X3 has many new features but it does crash sometimes. I'm sure a service pack with be coming soon. I recommend that you save your work often.
IMHO it is definitely worth the money to upgrade.
There are other recent threads on the board regarding X3 so you may want to check them out.
Posted by john randall (Member # 2450) on :
thanks what is imho?
Posted by Steve Racz (Member # 4376) on :
in my humble opinion... Posted by Steve Eisenreich (Member # 1444) on :
John I have been using the new X3 since it came out and it has not crashed for me yet. I do think it would be a great upgrade for you to go from verson 9 to X3 and if you are worried that it will not work perfectly keep version 9 on as backup till you are comfortable with the new CorelDraw. CorelDraw has a link from the letterheads merchants page.
Posted by Eric Barker (Member # 2972) on :
John, I upgraded from CD 9 to X3 and it was well worth it. I haven't had any crashes and the new features are great.
Posted by John Duckett (Member # 4505) on :
I also just upgraded to X3 from 9. So far, there's no way I would go back. There are way too many new features. I haven't had much problem learning the new features since there is a hints docker and the manual.
Posted by Dave Grundy (Member # 103) on :
John..I have been running ver 12...Since I am in Mexico, all I could do was download the trial version of X3.
From what I saw, I will be buying the new version as soon as we get home.
From 12 to X3 is good enough to make the purchase...From 9 to X3 is gonna be an eye opener for ya!!!!! Posted by Ian Stewart-Koster (Member # 3500) on :
John- you'll need Win XP for version 12 & over- it won't work on Win 98.
Posted by Denis E. Renaud (Member # 4610) on :
Got X3 2 weeks ago and just love it! Went from 10 to 12 and did not like 12 , went back to 10 to wait for this new version to come out. Just got to get it I have 3 diffeent work stations and it asn't crashed yet.
Posted by Dan Marquis (Member # 87) on :
Does anyone know if X3 will open version 8 files. When I went from v4 to v8, v8 wouldn't open my v1 files. I had to open them and save them with v4 first. That was a big pain in the butt.
Dan
Posted by Curtis hammond (Member # 2170) on :
X3 will save back to ver 7
Posted by Michael Clanton (Member # 2419) on :
one the quirks (if you are using multiple versions) is the new clipart will not import or open in anything lower than the X3 ver. I guess you you could save it down to whatever ver.
I too, upgraded from ver.9 to X3- I am still in the process of getting used to some of the new features and where they are located.
Go ahead and upgrade!
Posted by Russell Brown (Member # 6422) on :
Does anybody use Illustrator? What version do you recommend learning. I don't think they make the newer versions of Corel Draw for Macs.
Posted by john randall (Member # 2450) on :
thanks for all the great input i purchased it thursday or friday and hope it will be in tomorrow thanks again
Posted by Dale Manor (Member # 4858) on :
Russell,
There has been a few post recently about what design software people are using. You might want to do a search for them? I have an older Version of Corel (9) but I pretty much use Illustrator CS and the rest of the Adobe Creative Suite.
Both packages of software do their own thing a little bit differently and well, but as you mention above the newest version of Corel is not available for the Mac so I will stick with using what is working for me now.
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