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Living Room / Re: Adobe drops the gauntlet - going forward it's cloud - or nothing.
« Last post by tomos on May 07, 2013, 07:52 AM »^ah okay, I thought ye were comparing with Photoshop (just in case not clear: I was talking about Photoshop's capabilities when exporting *paths* - not pixels).
I havent heard much positive about Corel unfortunately over the years. I do know of people who were using it professionally but not for publication.
FWIW when creating PDF's, I've also had trouble *with certain fills* with the supposedly dream combination Illustrator and Acrobat/distiller (CS4 & CS3 respectively). My solution was to (successfully) use the free PDFCreator (which is also unfortunately included in the "Contest" - The most difficult Opt Out screens on installs!? thread).
I dont often get stuff published/offset-printed but have had no problems with the PDFCreator PDF's.-tomos (May 07, 2013, 06:26 AM)
Not trying to solve a problem here, trying to point one out...and the problem is Corel, as a company, makes a habit of dropping the ball and destroying previously great applications by not developing them in a way that allows them to become even better. If they had, then Paintshop Pro would be next in line to become the industry standard, behind Photoshop and Illustrator, a real alternative for those looking to migrate away from Adobe, their cloud crap, and still be able to have a boxed product.
My complaints about file formats was just an example of one of the many ways they failed to improve the product and bring it up to the level a professional would require. Instead they wasted developer resources on rather useless stuff. Corel really missed the boat, this time, and I hope they are kicking themselves...hard.
And I don't see PDFCreator as a good substitute, since it's not likely you can use it to draw stuff like this, from scratch.-app103 (May 07, 2013, 07:26 AM)
app
I hear/d what you're saying - and as I said, I've heard it from many others over the years.
But what with the thread theme being dissatisfaction with adobe, I included comments on the adobe dream combination (also related to your comment about formats for publication) - and alternatives.
PDFCreator is a PDF printer, I was suggesting it as an alternative for the Adobe Acrobat/Distiller printer driver. I didnt make any suggestions for an illustrator alternative - unfortunately there's very few serious aternatives to adobe illustrator, but hopefully adobe's move to the cloud will give those alternatives a good boost.
all round 
whether you want that help or not...