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Contents 1 Corel R.A.V.E.- Should It Be Added Here? 2 Corel Draw - Graphics Suit Submergence here. 3 CorelDRAW versus Illustrator 4 Screenshot? XP or Vista? 5 Corel Graphics Suite here? 6 Vendor lock-in? 7 Read / Write between the versions 8 Proofread

[edit] Corel R.A.V.E.- Should It Be Added Here?

Corel R.A.V.E. (Real Animated Vector Effects) is the vector-based animation application which comes bundled as part of the CorelDRAW Graphics Suite (starting in version 10). It is capable of creating interactive object-based animations and movies for the Web.Th emovies can be exported as Macromedia Flash (SWF), GIF animations, AVI movies for Windows, and QuickTime formats. Corel R.A.V.E., one of the three primary applications in the CorelDraw 10 Graphics Suite, is not sold on its own. As an added value to the popular drawing program, R.A.V.E. (Real Animated Vector Effects) lets users dabble with SWF output, but its limited support of interactive elements makes it unsuitable for serious Flash developers.R.A.V.E.'s best features come from CorelDraw, and its drawing and layout tools are extremely powerful. In addition to geometric shapes, including perfect polygons, it has free-form drawing and Bezier editing tools. You can create visually complex artwork, such as soft drop-shadows, contoured edges, and gradient transparencies, with interactive formatting tools simply by dragging the appropriate tool to an object. And functions such as Group, Combine, and Intersect create custom vector outlines. To build animations in R.A.V.E., you sequence objects and insert keyframes on a timeline. Many of the program's effects and high-end illustration functions can be animated (you can change the angle of a drop shadow to simulate the sun's movement, for example). Other sophisticated effects include animating a blend to transform one object into another and animating a clipping path.As movies increase in complexity, R.A.V.E. begins to show shortcomings. For example, synchronizing animation effects across multiple elements is difficult, because there is no direct way to copy keyframe values from one object to another. And though the timeline lets you organize a complex composition with layers, you can't use it to manage a lengthy movie with scenes. In addition, there are very few ways to build interactivity into a R.A.V.E. movie. The rollover effects are excellent; a special editing window lets you change—and even animate—the up, over, and down states for a button. But you can assign only one of two actions to a button: Either play a sound or go to a URL.

R.A.V.E. does not give you the ability to include navigation controls (such as Go to frame) or cuing mechanisms (such as Play audio) in your movie. This limitation is especially problematic for audio elements. Synchronizing a sound track to a movie is difficult without commands to start or stop audio playback. The R.A.V.E. manual suggests stretching or shortening the audio duration to match movie length, but this distorts the pitch, which can produce ridiculous results. R.A.V.E. imports a wide variety of file formats, letting you incorporate just about any raster or vector image into an animation. We also like the export options, which include video formats such as AVI and MOV. When generating an SWF file, R.A.V.E. lets you set the JPEG compression level for raster images, prevent the file from being edited, and generate an HTML page that references the Flash movie. Before exporting, R.A.V.E. presents you with a list of potential problems. Most frequently, vector objects will be rasterized, because Corel's unique special effects are not supported by SWF. This can increase file size a little or a lot, depending on whether the effect has been animated. In our testing, R.A.V.E. had trouble converting its complex internal shapes into the simpler curves Flash requires. For example, the clipping path of a rotated bitmap displayed incorrectly in the final SWF file.(please feel free to use this after suitable edits.)--asydwaters 05:57, 9 January 2006 (UTC) ÚÓ[[]]

[edit] Corel Draw - Graphics Suit Submergence here.

Yes.I think with the version 10 onwards Corel has been realeasing all its Draw suites as Graphic Suites consisting of Corel Draw,Corel Photopaint and R.A.V.E.--asydwaters 14:50, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

In my opinion Corel Draw is quite a useful tool as its application and user base in DTP is quite large. --asydwaters 14:50, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CorelDRAW versus Illustrator

Is there any data available on the popularity of the two applications? Online, it seems like Illustrator vastly dominates, but in the traditional print world, CorelDRAW seems to still have a good handle. I used it previously at a company that did a lot of CNC work... QuinnHK 21:16, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

I'd like to know this, also. I cannot understand the general hype over illustrator. My company has just moved me from corel draw x3 to illustrator cs3 (because it is a more of an industry standard) and I feel like I've been kicked back into last century. Corel was crisp, flexible, fast and had far superior control over illustrator as well as having many more useful and time-saving features. I can't understand why Illustrator is still the 'standard' tool when it is 3 times the price and 1/10th as useful as corel draw. Lets move forward from the whole "graphic designer = MAC + photoshop +illustrator" thing...

If you use a Mac there's only one software, Illustrator, but if you use a PC the best software is CorelDRAW. More than 70,000.000 of sales of Corel can confirm it —Preceding unsigned comment added by Einstein02 (talk • contribs) 13:19, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Screenshot? XP or Vista?

Looks like the sreenshot of coreldraw was running on windows vista, although it says its running in WinXP. The screenshot filename even has the word vista in it. Please somebody confirm this, becuase i cant although i think i was taken in WinVista... Djsonik 19:14, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

It was taken in XP. Confirmed by looking at window frame. — Alex ^(T|C|E) 03:56, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Corel Graphics Suite here?

Is it logical on your standpoint that CorelGraphics Suite is a paragraph of the CorelDRAW article? I think it makes no sense and it should be the contrary. Would you agree to create a page for Corelgraphics suite and leave here just the info striclty related to CorelDRAW?Luca Mauri 16:10, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

hi,i am from amritsar.I have just started learning CORELDRAW i found it really very interesting and useful too.THANKS

[edit] Vendor lock-in?

From what I gather, the CorelDraw .cdr file format is very complex and very closely guarded. There appear to be no 3rd party utilities, tools, image viewers that can open these files (the only exception I found is Adobe Illustrator but it often messes up the picture). Is it just me or is CorelDraw extremely aggressive in attempting to lock in users to their product? By comparison, for example Adobe and Microsoft file formats CAN be opened by several 3rd party applications! If so, I think this should be added to the article. Can someone confirm? 128.2.229.114 (talk) 16:04, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

I believe that CorelDRAW, like its competitors, does allow you to import/export to various (vector/other) file exchange formats, which can be read by many programs. This reduces vendor lock-in. A paragraph about this should be added. Exporting to another format must remove certain Corel-specific features of the file, reducing future ability to edit those features. This should be detailed in the paragraph. A table would be a nice way to show this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.91.172.36 (talk) 16:34, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Read / Write between the versions

The "Read / Write between the versions" table is a useful reference, but it stops at version 9. The rest of the article covers four more versions: 10, 11, 12, and X3. This table should be extended up to the current version. (I do not have the necessary information to do so myself.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.91.172.36 (talk) 16:11, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

One thing it might be useful to mention is compatibility of various versions with OS (where known). I used to have Corel Draw 4 (on a CD I got free with a printer cartridge) but found that it won't even install on Windows 98; I currently have CD7 (the light edition comprising only CD and CPP), and it won't run on Vista (haven't tried it on XP yet). -- 217.171.129.72 (talk) 14:03, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Proofread

Sorry I don't have time to read the whole thing right now, but I did notice this: "...a serious illustration program capable to use system-installed outline fonts..."

"Capable to use" should be "capable of using".

There may be more grammar erros. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.231.124.188 (talk) 22:05, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Small corrections like grammar and spelling don't need to be mentioned here - you can go ahead and fix them if you see any. --dmkrantz 20:49, 4 February 2008 (CST)