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Corel draw

Corel6 has 150ft X 150ft workspace.  While Draw always remains a good
program, the suite in v4 & v5 are dogs.  Their photoshop clone for example,
chokes on files large than around 30kb.  This has been corrected in
Version6.  The presents program in v5 is so-so. Power point is much better &
Corel presents6 clones PP.  The 3D program is escellent - though it's not
AutoCad.
Corel6 is fast - even on my 486dx2-66 12mb.  The whole suite needs 175mb of
drive space - but you can selectively install some programs & run others
from the cd.  It's not available on disk at the moment.

Corel3 at $69 doesn't have all the bells & whistles but it certainly has
everything you need for sign layouts.  You make them to scale & then either
tile print them or use an opaque projector.

Corel5 I think sells now for $139??.  If you are just using the Draw program
and want a s-load of fonts (Corel's font manager is useless - download a
shareware or use Win95's fontmanager) this is your version.  Tile printing
is much more straight forward and the scaling more reliable.  Draw6 doesn't
have _that_ much more stuff that you'll be needing right away.

Now fonts, that's a whole other story.  Generally, I can get pretty close to
decent single stroke sizing just with judicious use of scaling & line
thickness & so on - but it's a learned trait.

Kenny



>
>Tell us more about your Corel Draw experience (anyone else too). I have
>been using corel Draw 3.0 but it only has a 30" square page space. Does anyone
>know which version increased the page space? (I saw an ad that said version
6 has
>a 45ft space but the older versions are much less expensive).
>Also how do you deal with the fonts? It seems easy to make outline type letters
>(just set the outline to 10mm or 12mm or xxmm) but single line neon letters are
>another story. Any tricks?
>I saw in the archive someone was working on some single line scaleable
fonts. Any more
>news on that subject?
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