CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X8 - Amazon Exclusive - Includes RAW Photo Editor (Old Version)

I purchased this directly through Corel as an upgrade and made the mistake of not reading fully through the EULA. They changed the number of machines you are allowed to run this on from 3 to 1 at a time. I personally use it on 3 machines. My laptop, a desktop, and my laser laptop. This is going to create headaches workflow-wise in the future, I can already see. Forgot to shutdown on one computer? Better run back to it and do that. The upgrade I purchased isn't much of an upgrade either. It didn't take any work space settings from my previous X7 install and there doesn't seem to be an easy way to import them. Setting everything up again is somewhat a pain in the ass. I was excited on a few of the new features, the most important to me being the ability to hide individual curves. The implementation of it is absolutely terrible though, it's hidden in the right click menu. I guess Adobe has the patent on having a checkbox next to a vector or something stupid. There isn't much in the new features list that is really a great improvement over X7. In all honesty, this version really should have been a patch for X7 instead of a brand new version.

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Great programme....always has been , just disappointed that it is literally one user - so be warned - Its loaded on my desktop but I cannot now use it on my laptop. It will not allow me. Shame as I find it usefull to show customers the artwork. Too expensive to but another copy.

The software itself is pretty good. However Corel thought it would be a good idea to, every day since it was installed, in 2017, harass me with Corel pop-ups. At least 3 times a day I get a Corel pop-up about buying some other Corel product or paying way too much for upgrading to a newer version. I bought this version, because I like this version, this version does everything I need, and works with my installed version of Windows.

This version of this software has so many problems (even downloading their only patch) it is stunning. I was moving from X3 to this X8 version. For instance, it doesn't let you enter negative numbers for relative positions. It turns them all to positive numbers, rendering that feature completely useless for all practical purposes (it functions perfectly in earlier versions - X3 and in versions 8 and 9, which I have used). This X8 version randomly locks up - even when used on a 16 GB Ram, i7, Win 10 (64)brand new desktop. When it tells you to update text to use the full features for earlier files, it then corrupts the layout so you have to start all over. Defeating the purpose of opening files you created in X3, for example. I have never seen a software package move backwards so much instead of forwards.

Corel used to be a stellar company with solid support. At this point, however, Corel is dying. They have shut down the discussion forums where customers can help other customers with technical issues, replacing it with a user to user site that's mostly "bragging." They no longer provide phone support, and there is no-one you can contact if you have a technical problem with the product. Finally, configuration settings and other work cannot be carried from version to version any longer -- they have essentially shut down backward compatibility. The Corel graphics suite, once a solid piece of software, is quickly losing it's usefulness.

I'm one of the old Corel Printhouse users with over 1100 files in Printhouse. Once Windows 8 upgraded, Printhouse became useless. CorelDraw x8 was highly recommended in the blogs I read, so I got it. Yes, there' s a lot to re-learn, and you can't bring in the Printhouse files into x8, (kinda bummed about that) but if you really want to upgrade your drawing program to the 21st century, then I believe CorelDraw x8 is the way to go. Now that I am using vector drawings, I'm really glad I got this program. (now, if Corel would make something for me to bring the Printhouse files into x8, THAT whould be AWESOME! I've read a lot of blogs where I'm not the only one wishing this!)

Powerful photo software. We are using with a laser engraving machine, so we do not use all the features but what we are using does the job. Not intuitive, large learning curve if you're not educated in photo manipulation.

Amazing product. No real surprise. Paid for next day shipping. It didn’t get it for like 4 days later. Wasn’t to impressed with that.