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I've been buying odd numbered upgrades for a while (versions 4 and 6 turned me off the even numbered ones), but it seems to me I've been using ver 9 for a looong time. For a while the upgrades were coming thick and fast, every 18 months or so, but so far I haven't heard even a rumour of a new version. Has anyone heard anything??
Having said all that, I'm still discovering features, tricks, and shortcuts for version 9 even tho' I've been using it daily since it was first released ('98 or '99 ? ). There's not much it doesn't do, and it does it all so very well.
-------------------- Mike O'Neill
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Mike..I am using ver 10 with patch number 2..From what I have heard patch 3 will be version 11..I don't know a release date, but you can be sure I will be one of the "suckers" who goes right out and gets it!!!!
I figure that with all the versions of Corel I have bought in the last few years...I am almost up to 20% of the cost of a "sign makin program"!!
I look forward to Version 11.
"he who dies with the most versions of CorelDraw..WINS!!!!!!"
[ February 19, 2002, 09:42 PM: Message edited by: Dave Grundy ]
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i hate to burst your bubble....or inform you of this....but that old saying about only buy the odd number versions...cause they are good...IS BOGUS!!!hahahahahah.... ok ill start with corel 1, was good for what it was, 2 was also good but bad timming as everything was moving from DOS to win 3. version 3 was great, but slow more program then 4 or 8 megs of ram could handle. version 4 was one of the best(even #) worked great in 3.11 and as the machins moved from 386 to 486 and 586....it was one of the best. version 5 was junk..was striped of its plotter engine and leased to a co called co-cut, yep thats why it works "seemlessly" in corel. 6 was the same as 5 but was made for 95..and was really junk, it also did not work to plotters. 7 (odd #)THE ABSOULUTE COREL BEST...will cut to plotter(corel put engine back in this version and all above it)i still use it today was 1st corel to give you a 150 ft x 150 ft layout page. also the last of the true corels. version 8 was a mix of corel and a program called XARA, which corle sorta bought them, took what they wanted from there program and added it to corel 7 and called it corel 8. which is similar to 9 and 10.....so there goes your odd # thing....
-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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I thought it was only me. I cringe at the learning curve of the updates but I love all the neat features of a new Corel. You Canadians sure know how to do it.
-------------------- Ken Morse Jamn Graphics Santa Cruz, CA Posts: 213 | From: Santa Cruz, CA. USA | Registered: Nov 2000
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I'm still using version 8. I miss the EPS (placable) export filter that ver.5 had. It would give you the exact vector that what was created in Corel, nodes and all which would import directly into my plotting software. AnaGraph - I call it my plotting software because that's about all I use it for. I do my design work in Corel.
By the way, anyone using Corel that wants a plotter driver can download AnaGraph's free AnaPlot program. You have to go through the export import thing but the plot program works really good and has drivers for just about every plotter. If AnaPlot would have been available before I bought DesignArt, I wouldn't have.
I'm tired of playing hopscotch between programs. My next software purchase is going to be a plot program for Corel. I'm looking at several but haven't made up my mind which one to go with.
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buy a roland and cut right from corel..me, grundy george perkins...do it every day....
-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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Me? Gonna keep pluggin' away with 8 (and the much hated 9) and spend my money on Playdough. ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
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