Why keep learning Corel draw? Is he still alive?

Question

Adobe

I understand that many designers and printers still can not wean from Corel, but at the same time, why else do paid courses to teach this program? What's the point if there is a much more promising Adobe illustrator?
Maybe there's something in Corel that AI doesn't have since people keep using it?

Answer 1

Corel has a more understandable interface for a beginner and a simpler learning curve.
"For a family home" it is often simpler and more convenient. Ill is more hardcore-professional program.

Answer 2

I also don’t understand why the corel took root so well in the vastness of Russia, given that warez used to be more widespread - for some reason they chose the corel from the pirate corel and illustrator, even they teach it in schools.
From experience, I can say that, statistically, if the customer requires Corel or you need to redo the .cdr file, then we are dealing with a collective farm design that pollutes the Russian graphic culture. There were no exceptions (there weren't ANYONE), for 7+ years of close work as a designer.

Answer 3

Corel Draw, unlike the same Adobe Illustrator, allows you to create large banners (calculated in meters). Therefore, when creating such artifacts, you have to use both Correl and Illustrator, moving the file back and forth, fiddling with scales and sizes, in order to get an acceptable output product for printing.

Answer 4

Plotter and laser cutting from Corel turned out better before, right now I don’t know how things are. It also has a lot of third party plugins like that add a lot of new features to its base.
But despite this, I also wonder why he is at all)

Answer 5

Each of these programs has its own strengths, for use in narrow professional areas.
In particular, so far only "printers" have unsubscribed above - an illustrator is better for them.
Back in 2005, I worked with plotters (cutting) for some time - everything is exactly the opposite: you see that they brought the file to .ai - expect trouble. Especially if it was made by a designer-printer.
In particular, a simple element is a circle. Vector element. If made in corel, the plotter simply cuts out the circle. Printing designers working with illustrator always (I emphasize always) converted it into a curve with thousands of points on a circle - as a result, the plotter "twitched" over this circle from point to point to a minute of time. And this is only the simplest, what can we say about setting the line thickness - if you send it to a printing plotter, yes it will look like that, but if you need to cut it out, then the cutting plotter will simply cut one line in the middle - you need to understand how it works and why need a vector.
Although there is an opportunity to make normal vector elements in illustrator, but for some reason it somehow happened that illustrator is more used as a tool for printers, and corel is a tool for those applications where only vector graphics are needed. And vector not because it's a "trend" or so wanted, but because you can't do without it - again, a cutting plotter needs a vector that shows the tool how to cut. The same applies to various cutting laser and mechanical routers. This is probably the difference.
Something like this. Maybe something has changed over the years. Don't know.

Answer 6

First of all, there are no equal programs for working with printed materials, editing and prepress preparation of large-sized design layouts (example: 6x3 m, 3x12 m, 3x20 m). Thanks to the open work table measuring 40x40 meters! you can easily edit and print, for example, a huge banner on a scale of 1 to 1. That is, Corel Draw is ideal for printing. Try opening a 6x3 banner on a scale of 1x1 in Illustrator - it just coughs up and, as you remember, will not open in full scale. And Corel Draw is ideally optimized for such tasks. Just fly around your workspace, no artboard restrictions. Secondly, Corel Draw is as powerful a vector editor as Illustrator and with it you can solve identical tasks of creating illustrations, logos, marketing kits and the like. Thirdly - based on the first point - 90% of plotters are compatible with Corel Draw. Yes, Corel is not as stable as Illustrator, but Illustrator is sharpened specifically for creating vector illustrations and has a slightly different specificity (although, by the way, Affinity Designer is in many ways superior to Illustrator's ability to create vector images). I think that, in principle, it is generally incorrect to compare Illustrator and Corel, although these are very similar programs, but for slightly different tasks. It's like comparing a bulldozer and a grader, saying which is better. Almost all advertising and production companies work only on Corel Draw. And advertising production will never die out. And I described only a small part of the work that this "combine" named Corel can do. Not to mention the design and creation of technical drawings.

Answer 7

Some specific plotters print current from it ((.

Answer 8

I don't really like Corel either, but sometimes customers still throw off the source codes of logos, flyers in cdr format.

Answer 9

I've known Corel since version 2.0, where I had to edit in the outlines, and then press the "render" button. So, literally all versions of the king of firewood slow down on any hardware. This seems to be his main feature. Illustrator used to suffer from brakes too, but in the latest versions it's normal.

Answer 10

With some kind of aplomb and tension, Illustrator fences himself off, no one attacks AI, calmer gentlemen, calmer! No need for aggression.

Answer 11

I won't tell you about all regions of Siberia, but in the Kemerovo region CorelDRAW prevails (99.9%!!! not counting magazine products) I myself work in a printing house. Many organizations accept only Corel vector graphics. A few years ago I was engaged in the localization of layouts for one mobile operator, the whole task was to translate from Ilustratora and FreeHand (macromedia) into CorelDRAW, and adjust the proposals for our region .... the type of product was wide (business cards, booklets, banners, flyers, posters ... etc). There are files from neighboring regions (Novosibirsk, Tomsk region and the Republic of Khakassia) - Corel drives :)))

...printers still can't get over Corel

I personally love PDF (it doesn't matter where it's converted from), but Word customers :))

Answer 12

but the fact that the plotter software is integrated into Corel with a button to send it for cutting is unnecessary, right?