Jim; Not a problem, thanks for the info on Corel tools.
While I may be going against the grain, when it comes to outputting CAD, 3D drawings and anything else that is very complex, I always choose illustrator. It operates off a besier algorhythm that closely mirrors that used by AutoCAD, thus reducing the subtle distortions that come with moving complex drawings between formats. There is less adjusting and fiddling when it comes time for a final version. Illustrator, until the latest version, has lacked any kind of pagination feature owing mainly to its use in large media design. The idea (when it comes to publishing) has always been to design it in illustrator and move it to pagemaker for final comps. Some of its features may surprise you - for instance, Illustrator offers a similar set of vector-based text manipulation tools that do not rasterize as different effects change the shape of the text object. In addition, it has true vector based effects which can be added to brushes and objects and used in drawings. While they do not export well, they are certainly useful within the program. M -----Original Message----- From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 12:49 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Corel.com Redesigned > -----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 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
