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- From: rick@sundance.SJSU.EDU (Richard Warner)
- Subject: Re: Corel Draw 3.0 CD-ROM Edition (Reviewed by Tony Thomas)
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- Date: 10 Sep 92 22:59:03 GMT
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- ken@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
-
- >Tony Thomas (aa699@cleveland.Freenet.Edu) wrote:
-
- >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.
-
- Have you reported these to Corel? I am a regular participant in the
- CompuServe COREL forum and your experience runs counter to what has been
- reported there. Given that your problems seem to be > 1 standard deviation
- away from normal, maybe there is something unusual about your machine. One
- of the problems with Windows - and I will say it for the umpteenth time - is
- that it does not properly protect one app from another app or device driver
- that is ill-behaved. I had a number of problems with two programs (and
- only two) on my PC. Both were directly attributable to problems in the
- video driver.
-
- >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
-
- These are your preferences. Corel made a decision NOT to do these. Text
- handling has vastly improved over Ver. 2.0 - and some users asked for
- the types of changes you are asking for. These are not 'bugs' - they
- are you, simply put, what you prefer. As for the speed of centering,
- one factor that plays into that is video speed. Processor speed is of
- secondary or tertiary importance in most drawing programs, including
- Corel.
-
- >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.. :-)
-
- Whoa. MS Word 5.0 has to be a serious contender for the buggiest piece
- of software ever released by a major software company (and that after
- 9 months of delays in shipping, the last 3 of which Word was off the
- market because Bill decided not to sell version 4.0 any more). W4W
- 1.0 and 2.0 are also quite buggy (why did MS rush out 2.0a so fast? There
- aren't any new features). Do you want to talk DOS 3.0? Major
- infestation! Windows 3.0? OS/2 1.0 (MS wrote almost all of it)?
-
- >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.
-
- First, they are not patches. It is a whole new version - 3.0b, including
- some additional features to go with the bug fixes. Second, very few
- commerical houses use Internet distribution for either one of two
- reasons: how do you control who gets your code, and how many of your
- customers will you reach (very few, relatively).
-
- >--
- >Ken Tindell Internet : ken@minster.york.ac.uk
- >Computer Science Dept., Local FTP site: minster.york.ac.uk
- >York University, Tel. : +44-904-433244
- >YO1 5DD, UK Fax. : +44-904-432708
- >--
- >"The Gulf War won't be like a Rambo film; it will be long, bloody and terrible"
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