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- From: ken@minster.york.ac.uk
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: Corel Draw 3.0 CD-ROM Edition (Reviewed by Tony Thomas)
- Message-ID: <716048564.22624@minster.york.ac.uk>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 14:22:44 GMT
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
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- Tony Thomas (aa699@cleveland.Freenet.Edu) wrote:
- : Every computer program has bugs. It is a question of whether or not the
- : bugs are ones you can work around or ones that paralyze you. Alas, I
- : have found one bug in Corel that is very intermittent. That is a far
- : cry from describing it as "buggy as hell"!
-
- Fine. All programs do have bugs. Corel Draw is big. BUT... they should not
- be shipping a package that an ordinary non-expert user like me is likely to
- break. The import filters break very often, dumping the program. I had the
- most horrible bug where Corel Draw wouldn't write to disk. Utterly refused.
- An no, it was nothing to do with disk space. It was the save routine. I had
- to export the file as WMF and re-import it after killing CorelDraw. Lucky I
- thought of that. The export to TrueType fonts doesn't work more than 50% of
- the time.
-
- And no, I am not running windows 3.0. I am running an out of the box 3.1
- system with very few wrinkles. Every other major package I have behaves
- itself. Why not CorelDraw?
-
- Add to this the atrocious user interface "features" (like why can't you set
- the attributes of a whole load of text items together, instead of selecting
- them individually, or why can't you set the default text font/size to be
- persistent between invocations, or why trying to centre a piece of text
- takes over a second on a fast 486, or why my text in Corel pictures always
- comes out boldened compared to text generated from Word, or ....) and it's
- clear that CorelDraw 3.0 was rushed onto the market place without adequate
- testing. Which is why they are now shipping patches to it. I understand the
- market pressures on them to do this, but I really would appreciate a little
- more care. Perhaps I've been pampered by Microsoft products.. :-)
-
- One final disclaimer: I _like_ CorelDraw. Fix the niggling user interface
- problems, and fix the bugs, and you have the most impressive and useful
- drawing program on the market. The shipping of a CD was an excellent move,
- and shipping the video tape was inspired. I'll have to see if the latest
- patch fixes the problems.
-
- Are the patches available by FTP? I can see I'll have to wait years for an
- official patch disk to be mailed to me.
-
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