On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:56:32 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
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Bill Wright wrote:

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The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Corel Draw s the best all round 2D package I have found - mixes maths
and pretties very well.

Didn't know it was still around. Was a reasonable alternative to Acorn
Draw many years ago. I'll have a look for it.

Oh my goodness, CorelDraw is fantastic. It takes a bit of learning to
get the best out of it, but it's full of tricks and shortcuts that make
the job easier. I've been using it since v2. Version 4 was good, 5, 6,
and 7 were bad, 8 was good but had some annoyances, I have no real
experience of 9-11 having never loaded them on my own machines, 12 is
the one I use now and it's brilliant, definitely the best ever. I
haven't used or seen later versions.

What puts people off CorelDraw is that is isn't very intuitive. You have
to put a bit of effort in.

The beauty of Acorn Draw is it was written for kids. And even the first
version is pretty powerful. Many later ones with different gizmos - but
still basically the same.

Oh - Coral Draw costs the thick end of 400 quid.


I bought an out of date revision for 3 quid at a computor show,
registered it, and upgraded it for a song.

Derek