CorelDraw

Description

Suite of Windows and vector-based software for individuals and businesses for:

  • Illustration
  • Page layout
  • Digital imaging

Strengths

  • Installs easily
  • Won CNETs Editors Choice and named by CNET as "The Best All-Purpose Graphics Suite" of 2004
  • Full range of creation tools, innovative effects, and high-quality output features
  • Easy-to-use and affordable
  • Variety of import and export filters
  • Bitmap export filters
  • Color management
  • Interactive transparency
  • Allows you to "spray" images along a path
  • Very customisable menus and buttons
  • Superior PDF (portable document format) export
  • Very nice user interface and design management
  • Excels in the categories of special effects and import/export
  • Suited for universal exchange of file formats

Weaknesses

  • Slow when the menu bar or the icons are being changed in the options menu
  • Sometimes suffers a complete crash just after a file has been loaded
  • The only way to draw continuous lines is the Bzier method
  • Shifts unselected objects by just moving the cursor over it with pressed mouse button
  • Doesn't save the last used global and page-specific settings
  • Not recommended to run it in parallel to other applications except for the Windows Explorer
  • Interface can be buggy at times
  • Heavy memory usage.