CorelDraw Graphics Suite 12 [OLD VERSION]

List Price: $399.99 Discount Price: $228.00

Features:

• Design suite for illustration, page-layout vector drawing, and more; includes CorelDraw Graphics 12, Corel Photo-Paint 12, and Corel R.A.V.E. 3
• Over 10,000 professional clipart images; 1,000 TrueType and Type 1 fonts; and 1,000 photos and objects are included
• Highly compatible with Microsoft Office, Corel Wordperfect and most other industry standard applications
• Interactive training CD gets you up to speed quickly and easily
• Ideal for freelance designers, engineers, advertising personnel, and more

Accessories:
Microsoft Office XP Standard Upgrade [Old Version]	Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Upgrade [OLD VERSION]	Microsoft Windows XP Professional Upgrade [OLD VERSION]	CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 11 Upgrade	Doom 3

Customer Reviews:

Must Have for Graphic Designers!!! [Posted on 2006-06-25]
Awesome product! So user friendly, and a must have for all graphic designers and desktop publishers!!

Much Improved CorelDraw 12 [Posted on 2006-06-26]
I am very impressed with the improvements in CorelDraw 12. I couldn't be happier. I have always used CorelDraw for great black & white diagrams, but this version seems best of any. I was very impressed that I can ungroup, move around points and lines in the individual sections, and they will all remain selected while being moved, then go back to the original pick tool and regroup them again. So much easier! I'm still learning and finding improvements, but it looks cleaner and easier to use than ever before. If you can get your hands on a copy of this program, jump at the chance. The tendency to crash of version 11 is gone! It's going to be really fun.

very poor graphics suite [Posted on 2006-07-21]
I have noticed favorable reviews here, with the reviewer asserting intimate knowledge and experience with this suite, its forerunners, or several other programs. I cannot address how someone with a decade of experience might react to this tangled mess, only how someone with slight familiarity with a paint program or similar might react.

First, opening the box and installing the programs is a chore. Unlike the dozens of other programs I have on my system, rather than taking half an hour, or so, installing these programs took the better part of two afternoons...it was if the developers consciously decided to find another way, rather than standards users are familiar with, to do everthing. Particularly annoying this the spyware, in the guise of searching for updates, which is at least difficult to remove, if not impossible. The tool which Corel, alone among software developers, seems to have been forced to put in their help files on their inadequate site, doesn't work, at least the way the instructions read. Hopefully, with several manhours more effort this spyware can be removed from my system.

Worse than this though is the tutorial, presumably for first time users to familiarize themselves and get started with this product.

First lesson "Using the toolbar to start a drawing"

On the toolbar click "New" button to start a new drawing...so far, so good. This desirable state of events quickly ends, however, for the second instruction begins"

"From the Zoom levels list box"...and nothing more. No hint where this box may be found, nothing in the totally inadequate help file nothing....the "tutorial" is then over for the new user.

Sit and stare at the graphic representation in the middle of your computer screen while you contemplate exactly how much a program which displays a picture of a piece of paper, plus took a manday or so to install spyware on your system, is worth.

A VERY STABLE PRODUCT [Posted on 2007-01-20]
I have been using CorelDraw since it first came out. This software has helped me create stunning results effortlessly. Also, CorelDraw's layout and ease of use beats Adobe products hands-down! I love CorelDraw and hope they stay in there as they have a "winner" of a product despite Adobe's overly-touted, expensive and snobby software. Hang in there CorelDraw, you're the very best... I love your product! Been a loyal fan of yours for years and years...

Too picky. Too much to learn. [Posted on 2007-12-14]
I got this to make simple designs, for shirts, etc. I must say that it is extremely complicated. It's way too picky about what you can do and how you can do it. Not user-friendly at all. I've gotten a basic understanding of it over the past several months, but generally, it's just way too much. Too complicated. It did come with several other programs, such as a photo program, an animation program, etc. but all in all, I wish I had Photoshop.

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