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.