Sneak Preview of CorelDraw 9 for Linux

A reader writes "Michael Hall of LinuxPlanet wrote a pretty nifty review of CorelDraw 9 for Linux. He's a mondo GIMP fan, but he's still saying nice things about CorelDraw, kinda sorta."

Comments

Troll bridge, do not cross ;-)

[Ian Schmidt]

Rumors of Wine's slowness are greatly exaggerated. The latest version plays Half-Life and Counterstrike at high frame rates on my TNT2 card with the latest NVIDIA drivers :-)

Re:Corel's okay but...

[Bad_CRC]

"where is adobe?"

p ress release

they are coming along. Just very slowly.

________
1995: Microsoft - "Resistance is futile"

CorelDraw is not GIMP

[jpatokal]

These CorelDraw-vs-GIMP comparisons are starting to annoy me. Repeat after me:

CorelDraw is a vector drawing program.

The Gimp is a bitmap drawing program.

The Gimp cannot edit vector graphics; CorelDraw cannot edit bitmap graphics. The two products simply do not compete.

The Gimp's real competition is Corel's Photo-Paint, which, interestingly enough, will be available for free once released, or at least so says the article. Evidently Corel feels that the Gimp is good enough a free competitor to make selling Photo-Paint alone useless! However, while CorelDraw is definitely the king of vector drawing programs and one of the missing key apps still holding back Linux (no, xfig really does not cut it!), Photo-Paint is far less popular than Adobe's PhotoShop. PhotoShop is one of the few reasons I still boot into WinNT, and I don't see this changing unless Adobe ports a recent version or Gimp 2.0 makes good on its claims.

Cheers,
-j.

Re:CorelDraw is not GIMP

[MichaelH]

These CorelDraw-vs-GIMP comparisons are starting to annoy me. Repeat after me:

CorelDraw is a vector drawing program.

The Gimp is a bitmap drawing program.

Of course, you might be less annoyed if you read the review and realized that CorelDraw the suite includes Corel Photo-Paint as well as Corel Draw the program.

Kind regards,
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Michael Hall
Charlottesville, Virginia

Re:CorelDraw is not GIMP

[Anonymous Coward]

Repeat after me:
CorelDraw is a vector drawing program.
The Gimp is a bitmap drawing program

Ok,
CorelDraw is a vector drawing program.
The Gimp is a bitmap drawing program.

As one of the beta testers...

[Aleatoric]

I have to give this pretty good marks, all in all.

Not much to add to the review, I've had good results with it, though. I like some of the features in photopaint, even though I'm still a big Gimp fan, I think photopaint is a good complement to it. Draw is good, also. I don't do a great deal with vector illustrations, though, so I didn't wring it out like it did photopaint.

As for running under wine, I've seen no significant performance issues. Some of the screen updates, etc., could be quicker, but I've found nothing that affects the usability of it.

For comparison purposes, I'm running it on a 400M celeron with 256M ram, and Mandrake 7.1

Wine does seem to be a bit finicky about XFree 4.0 though, but I haven't pursued this enough to find out what's really the issue.