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| | Features | CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5 offers everything you need for professional graphics illustration, layout, tracing, photo editing, Web graphicsAnd animation in one complete suite of integrated applications that is easy to learn and use.Start smoothly and learn quickly with built-in learning tools, valuable video tutorialsDesign insights from experts and a visually rich guidebook--be inspired to do more than you thought possible.Enrich your designs with over 1,000 professional fonts and take advantage of high-value digital content,Dozens of supported file formats, including PDF, JPG, PNG, EPS, AI, TIFF, PSD, DOCX and many more, let you import and export files quickly & easily.
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| | Description | CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5 is a versatile graphic design software suite that helps you creatively express ideas for any media. Illustrate, lay out, trace, design Web graphics and animations, and photo-edit with this complete solution for visual communications. | |
| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 0.0 inches | | Product Width: | 0.0 inches | | Product Height: | 0.0 inches | | Product Weight: | 2.05 pounds | | Package Length: | 9.0 inches | | Package Width: | 6.6 inches | | Package Height: | 1.0 inches | | Package Weight: | 2.1 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 97 reviews |
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| | System Requirements | | Platform: | Windows Vista / Windows 7 / Windows XP | | Media: | DVD-ROM | | Item Quantity: | 1 |
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70 of 72 found the following review helpful:
Great value, but this release is way too slow on Vista. Aug 20, 2010
By Wor-El
If you are still running Vista, this release is WAY too slow out of the box, so buy a previous version. It's perfectly speedy on Windows 7.
I'm a professional freelance graphic designer with an illustration background. Having used both Illustrator and CorelDraw for well over 15 (close to 20?) years, here's my position:
- Professional graphic designers must own Adobe's Creative Suite. Anyone who tells you that CorelDraw's suite is a substitute for CS doesn't know what they are talking about. You're already not using a Mac, the industry standard hardware... don't isolate yourself further by not using the industry standard software.
- For non-professionals or office workers who need to create basic reproducible design work, this suite is easier to use than CS. Anything you create you can publish to PDF for printing, and any issues related to effects, etc. can be resolved by converting to 300dpi bitmaps as needed. Anyone who tells you that this is not the case ALSO doesn't know what they are talking about. Any printer who can print a photo can also print anything CorelDraw can generate, period.
- I need and use CorelDraw for this reason: it's simply a better, faster, easier, more natural and more convenient vector drawing tool than Illustrator. Hands down. With plugins installed, Illustrator improves, but it's still a giant pain compared to CorelDraw. Illustrator has a few features I like. When I need them, I just export the result to EPS and bring it over to Draw.
Two cents, spent. Hope it's helpful.
23 of 24 found the following review helpful:
 Clean and Intuitive Interface and Easy to Use May 19, 2010
By Ronald Hammond
"Hooker"
A lot of people use Adobe Illustrator, but there is another very fine drawing program out there and this is it. Like with Illustrator you can design and create logos, ads, illustrations for websites and so much more. The program ships with a gang of royalty free software, 10,000 clip art images which you can use in your projects, 1,000 first class photos which you can also use. And 1,000 fonts, which is good for all of us who cannot afford the very expensive Adobe Font Library.
The interface is clean, intuitive and the program is easy to use, though I did watch the videos which came with it and they helped a lot. Also, this is a full fledged vector based program, just like Adobe Illustrator, but you can do page design with it as well, like you would in Quark Express or Adobe InDesign. However, sadly I don't think Photo-Paint in the suite measures up to Adobe Photoshop, but still, it's a useful part of the program.
All in all, I'd say you'll get your money's worth with this program You can use it instead of Illustrator or Quark and InDesign and that's saying a lot, it really is.
30 of 34 found the following review helpful:
 A Competent, Accessible, and Powerful Graphics Suite...Hampered by Limited Industry Support Aug 19, 2010
By T. Shih
I am fluent with desktop publishing and graphics editing, but am not a professional per say. While I understand the general principles and can usually create the effects I want, I generally don't have to do anything particularly complicated. Since I come from an Adobe background and have never tried Corel, I used CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5 for a few months and integrated it into my normal workflow. Before writing this review, I collaborated with a professional graphics designer and created several things that went to print, including a newspaper ad, marketing flyers, and a webpage.
While CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5 is touted as being "intuitive", I had a wretched time getting used to the user interface and presentation. Corel generally doesn't lack the tools found in its Adobe counterparts, but it might use a different name, put it in a different place, and the tool might behave differently. Honestly, I had such a rough time that I wanted to quit and forget about it...but I stuck it through. Corel makes it pretty easy for users to learn their product by including several video tutorials and several guides, which were genuinely useful if a tad boring. Generally speaking, the hardest part for me was unlearning my Adobe habits so I could effectively use the tools.
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite is reasonably feature-complete, and I usually had what I needed to get the job done. Besides using PhotoPaint and Draw, which are the main components of the suite, I had no use for the third-party Flash tool but I got a lot of mileage out of the screen capture utility and the trace wizard built-into Draw. Also, the bundled professional fonts (Futura) are a real treat if you don't have them already. While much of the bundled clipart, stock photos, fronts, and patterns are useless to me, I found a few gems. Some of the other bundled features are fun, like the barcode wizard, but I don't really have a way to try it out.
One major problem that turned up pretty quickly was that Adobe compatibility is iffy at best. While I as able to open and make edits to some Illustrator CS4 documents, I found that I was pretty much unable to save my finished work back into the AI format! Since I was collaborating with somebody who used Illustrator, this created a plethora of problems. I later tried exporting my Corel project into the EPS format but still had issues with the outputted file not rendering properly. In Corel's defense, I suspect Adobe's compatibility with Corel file formats isn't perfect either (I found that saving as CorelDRAW version 10 worked well enough), but the general lack of interoperability caused great headaches.
The second major issue I had was that several print shops don't fully support Corel. On one occasion, I brought my freshly created CorelDRAW project to a local print shop, and got rejected. The print shop basically said that they only had an older version of Corel and it could not open the new files. In that case, I had to go back and save my project in an older format. On another occasion, a different print shop completely botched my Corel document but printed the Adobe ones just fine. When I say botched, the colors were totally off (despite saving in CMYK) and the font/text formatting was garbled as well. I must note that none of these issues are directly related to Corel, but their impact on the end-user experience is profound, nonetheless.
It's worth noting that while CorelDRAW Graphics Suite x5 will work with Windows xp/vista/7 32-bit and 64-bit, the application itself is only 32-bit. I tested the program using a Windows XP Home Edition 32-bit Laptop with a Pentium Dual Core @ 2.1GHz and 4GB of RAM, and tried it out on a Windows 7 Professional 64-bit desktop with an AMD Quad core @ 3.2GHz and 4GB of RAM. The suite worked well enough and scaled quite nicely between the dual core and quad core processors. Unfortunately, even after installing the SP1 update, the suite was not immune to sporadic catastrophic crashes that resulted in lost work. Also, certain operations are not multi-threaded such as exporting to different file formats, and some conversions tool several minutes while the program appeared to hang.
I believe that with Corel, the enlightened user can create just about anything their Adobe counterpart can, though they will trade blows when it comes to ease of implementation and polish. Corel is marketed as an inexpensive alternative to Adobe, and isn't quite aimed at demanding professionals. This is not to say you cannot produce professional output, but there are many areas that need improvement. Generally speaking, if I didn't need to get my jobs professionally printed or didn't have to collaborate with somebody using Illustrator, I would have had a better experience with CorelDRAW Graphics Suite. As a stand-alone product, it's a very capable collection that can satisfy most users while offering tremendous value. Unfortunately, for professional use, due to limited industry support, the initial cost savings over Adobe software might not be enough to cover the additional troubles that might pop up down the road.
10 of 11 found the following review helpful:
Definitely consider if new to graphics; Worthwhile as an upgrade Apr 26, 2010
By Bud
I have been using CorelDRAW for almost 20 years (since version 3). My review is more for graphics/photo editing using PHOTO-PAINT since that is more of what I use these days. Photo-Paint is the parallel to Adobe Photoshop. I really don't use much of the CorelDRAW vector drawing program (one of the two main programs) which is the parallel of Adobe Illustrator. I am not a graphics professional, but do use CorelDRAW professionally. Along the way, I have used most every other graphics program including Paint Shop Pro (formerly Jasc shareware, now owned by Corel) which I find vastly irritating compared to Photo-Paint. Don't get the two confused: Corel Photo-Paint has nothing to do with Corel Paint Shop Pro.
For most of its life prior to version X5 (=15), Photo-Paint was largely neglected IMO. In fact, I was still using versions 8 and 9 since there was little reason to upgrade. Historically, Photo-Paint was ahead of Photoshop in many areas, including things such as supporting layers and having quick/easy masking tools. During the time that it was neglected, however, Photoshop caught up (functionally) and moved ahead of Photo-Paint. Finally, with X5, I have a solid reason to upgrade because it finally has good support for transparency. Yes, before X5 you couldn't even do something which I consider a basic necessity as exporting to a PNG graphic with alpha (transparency) channel.
Because I am not a graphics designer, I vastly prefer Photo-Paint to Photoshop. Although, I don't know Photoshop as well as I do Photo-Paint, to me, Photo-Paint is my bread-and-butter program. It is way less resource intensive than Adobe's products. Also, it just takes so many fewer clicks to get anything done. What I love about Corel's products is that I can go in and do some quick edits and be done in a fraction of the time compared to Adobe's. The dialog boxes, previews, etc., are easier/faster, and they remember the last setting you applied. This allows you to do repetitive work very quickly. For example, if you need to apply the same sharpening or the same color correction to a couple of photos, you can do it in a few clicks. Photoshop is very tedious to use for me. I'm sure if all I did was edit photos for magazine covers, I'd love it. I'm sure there are many who are familiar with Photoshop that would say that Corel is difficult to use, but to me, Corel's products work like most Windows products. You can pretty much figure it out yourself. With Photoshop, you really have to take a class or read a book.
In the end, I really only use Photoshop when I have to. That is to do some heavy lifting, usually with an Adobe source file since I would rate Corel's file format interoperability shaky at best. So where does that leave you? If you have to work with ad or print agencies and/or work with native Adobe files, stick with their products. If you do a lot of work on your own, then by all means if you can afford it, get it. It is the graphics program I turn to first. In fact, I still keep my old version 8 installed which actually works better under Vista than under XP. It is something like 12 years old, but on today's hardware, it launches like Notepad, and I can be done with something quick in literally a minute. X5 is somewhat slower, but allows me to handle transparency without having to go to GIMP or Photoshop. For me, that is a useful upgrade. I only give it 4 stars, because it does cost a good chunk of change and really doesn't work that well with Adobe files. I would give it 5 stars if it was unbundled and cheaper.
9 of 10 found the following review helpful:
A first class graphics package Jun 17, 2010
By James Beswick
"In my day, we had 9 planets."
I haven't used CorelDRAW since the 1990s, so it's remarkable to see how the software has become fully-fledged professional package that ranks with Illustrator in terms of quality but offers a significantly simpler learning curve. I use Photoshop regularly and occasionally have to dabble in vector graphics, so every time I open Illustrator I feel like I know nothing about the product. Not so with CorelDRAW, which I had little trouble understanding straight out of the box. Clearly this is an extremely capable and well thought-out package, and I was able to convert logos to vectors instantly, and then manipulate these with no problems (even with my admittedly limited knowledge of bezier curves) and then export my work to Adobe InDesign seamlessly.
The manual and video training is definitely worth using in understanding the broader capabilities with the application. There's are also supplementary resources from clipart graphics to 1,000 fonts included, so if you need a creative kickstart these are a good place to get some ideas. As another reviewer commented, I really liked the fact that this acts like a Windows application, so if you're proficient with Windows shortcuts they're all supported here. This is not true of Illustrator, which simply ignores a wide range of standard commands and makes the application mouse-heavy.
I've been experimenting with the software for a few weeks now and would recommend it to anyone who fights with Illustrator and needs a vector graphics solution that doesn't have you hunting for the manual every few minutes. Unfortunately, I'm not a graphics pro so can't comment on the workflow and advanced elements of the suite, but at my level I can see this is an application I'll now be using regularly.
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