> -----Original Message----- > From: Haggerty, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 9:31 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Corel.com Redesigned > > > I am still a big fan of Painter (Metacreations sold Painter > to Corel a while ago), and own a copy of Painter 6. It amazes > my daughter's friends when I start painting on the computer. > > The one thing that bugs me about all their products is the > lack of native SVG support. At least this was the situation > about a year ago when I was looking into ways of scripting > SVG creation through Visual Basic.
I'm not sure about painter... But the CorelDraw11 suite supports SVG (as well and PNG, Flash, PDF and about a hundred other formats) natively. > Would be nice to see that kind of functionality... their > products are great for some things that are not overly complicated. Again I don't know painter very well, but the CorelDraw suite has always been at the head of herd when it comes to managing complex drawings (I think). To bring it around Corel appeals to same senses that ColdFusion does: it reduces complexity and abstracts difficult tasks nicely. For example text in Draw! stays text (and has for the past 5 versions). Twist it, extrude it, light it, slap it's ass and call it charlie and you can still edit a typo. In most other tools any of those would convert the text to curves before applying the effect. It also lets you work work with most common drawing organizational metaphors: you can use layers or objects or both. A single file can be multi-page and you can apply onion-skin effects (my big complaint about this is that guidelines are NOT specific each page but rather the whole drawing - a feature you sometimes need and sometimes REALLY don't). I'm sorry - I know that you weren't really arguing... I'm just such a fan of these tools. ;^) Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
