a.k.a Brian Smithson, Corel User!

[PeterArnel]

Goodness Brian do u really use Corel - or are u like one of those Vintahe car drivers - who like to be "retro" as a Priner I stopped taking them seriously when I read in their manaul if u wanted to make changes to a layout just cover it with a white box ( mark u this was in about 1994 when three us were desperate to get a section of a magazine printed - only to find the ad had something nasty under the box:-)
Peter
Does anyone else use Corel I wonder - we dont see it in the UK at all . We are only Quark with a small amount of InDEsign

[annc]

Originally Posted by PeterArnel

Goodness Brian do u really use Corel - or are u like one of those Vintahe car drivers - who like to be "retro" as a Priner I stopped taking them seriously when I read in their manaul if u wanted to make changes to a layout just cover it with a white box ( mark u this was in about 1994 when three us were desperate to get a section of a magazine printed - only to find the ad had something nasty under the box:-)
Peter
Does anyone else use Corel I wonder - we dont see it in the UK at all . We are only Quark with a small amount of InDEsign

I'm having no difficulty getting printers to take InDesign files here. Even one of the small one-colour presses just up the road will take them, and do all their in-house work with InDesign Mac.

[ElyseC]

Originally Posted by PeterArnel

Does anyone else use Corel I wonder - we dont see it in the UK at all . We are only Quark with a small amount of InDEsign

It is apparently a (the?) major app used by many printers in China. I now have clients asking me to provide layouts as Illustrator EPS v10 or earlier, because their vendors are using CorelDraw and say they cannot open AI CS EPS files.

[Andrew B.]

I prefer Draw because it can handle more than one page at a time. I use Photoshop as my primary bitmap tool, but sometimes drop into Corel Photo-Paint because it has better brushes, better smart blur, and some other nice traits. I use Corel Painter, because nothing from Adobe, Quark, or anyone else comes close.

Hmmm. Might as well mention that I also use Corel WordPerfect and Corel QuattroPro -- just to get a couple more Corel's up there.

[Franca]

Does anyone else use Corel I wonder - we dont see it in the UK at all

Not quite true - guess where Brian is? ;-)

I use Corel Draw and Corel Ventura and Adobe Photoshop. Running on a PC - gotta use the best tools for the job! <vbg> Sure wish Photoshop had Photo-Paint's interface, though.

[Andrew B.]

Originally Posted by Franca

Sure wish Photoshop had Photo-Paint's interface, though.

Yes, there are some nice interface features in Photo-Paint. Two that come to mind are the popup navigation window in the lower right corner of the image window, and the shift-drag method of sizing brushes.

[Mike]

Originally Posted by annc

I'm having no difficulty getting printers to take InDesign files here. Even one of the small one-colour presses just up the road will take them, and do all their in-house work with InDesign Mac.

Just out of interest, are there reasons for sending InDesign files rather than PDFs?

[DTP Guy]

Yes Peter, I do use Corel -- DRAW, PhotoPAINT and Ventura. I also use InDesign and Photoshop and own Illustrator, but haven't used it.

I guess I just use the tool that I think I can get the job done with.

If you haven't used Corel software since 1994, then you are missing out, but I seem to remember that you are a printer, no? In that case, probably every Corel user is bringing you a PDF file and you just don't know that it was created with Corel software. :-)

Very few Corel people send native files 'cos they get that certain look from the service bureau/printer which says "Corel? - here comes trouble..." It means a lot of Corel users are very, very good at outputting their files. :-)

[mact]

yes.

so things done badly can be fixed. such as PMS to White blends (bloody impossible to fix in PDF)

80-90% of the PDF files i get, from whatever application, are done wrong.

[mact]

My turn. <VBG>

The majority of native files I get are Corel Draw files, from versions 7 on up (they all get opened in 11 or 12).

It's even possible (and quite easy!) to kick out eps fropm Quart, bring them into Draw and handle the imposition there because brainless quart hasn]t any real imposition tools.

Draw 11 on the mac is just fine! Can't say that about earlier mac versions.