Corel coming back to the Mac

[wonderings]

Just read this on CNET and it looks like Corel is taking a stab at the Mac market again after 20 years. Will definitely try out the demo out of curiosity but doubt I would ever adopt it for real work. Found Corel on PC worked way to differently then Adobe, made cross use frustrating.

https://www.cnet.com/news/coreldraw-...-onto-the-web/

https://www.coreldraw.com/en/product/coreldraw/mac/

 

[Possumgal]

Perhaps they believe the choice of outright purchase may lure some users.

 

[wonderings]

Perhaps they believe the choice of outright purchase may lure some users.

Could be, or also a realization that they have an untapped market of creative people who prefer Mac. The price is not too steep for a full graphic suite even compared to Adobe's prices when buying the full CS outright. I am hoping all these "little" guys get enough traction with outright payments or the option of subscription and outright payment to push Adobe to bring back that model. I truly hate what Adobe has done with their subscription and leaving the user/consumer with ZERO if they ever choose to stop paying.

 

[Guest]

The Corel brand will probably win them some switchers but products like the Affinity suite offers very powerful options for even less money.

 

[Guest]

Just downloaded Corel on Mac (16 day trial) and did a sample 4-page layout.

Some initial skepticism:

• It certainly does not feel like a first-class Mac application. It is slow and lags on this Mac where Adobe CC is fine and Affinity flies. (i7 Macbook Pro)
• Some of the control conventions are vaguely familiar from a decade ago (when I last used Corel on PC) but it is very different from how Adobe, Affinity, and many other Mac apps work and will certainly harm productivity at first.

The good:

• I could open a Corel file from PC and it works perfectly.
• It is nice to have the vector drawing tools (Illustrator) and page layout (Indesign) in the same app. Affinity does that even better now though. Adobe can innovate a little in this area.