Illustrator or Corel Draw?

i think they are both creative to use.. .but i still prefer using adobe illustrator.. .since, post printing shops in my area are atoned to AI and i guess that is the advantage over it.. .

 

I have used the Illustrator and Corel Draw before. Sometimes I make something in Corel Draw and export to Illustrator or vice versa before tweaking it for the final product. But I think it depends upon the artist and the project he/she will be doing.

 

Like comparing apples to oranges!

 

i really think that it depends on the location where youre at.. .if i may say so.. .like here in my community, most printing shops, if not all uses AI.. .so it would really be practical that i am using AI instead of Corel.. .although both of them are great in producing quality vector/graphic arts.. .

 

How is that a problem? With Corel you can export to .ai as well as publish to PDF... I just downloaded the
trial version of Corel, and although I think it is unfamiliar at first when you're used to Illustrator, I would
probably consider Corel if I was going to invest in a proprietary vector program. Illustrator alone costs $599,
exactly the same amount as CorelDraw Premium suite X5, that in reality is the equivalent of the entire
Adobe Creative suite (which costs 1899$). So when it comes to bang for the buck, you get far more value
for your money by choosing Corel.

Alternatively you could just use Inkscape, which is free and open source

 

Being a designer i must suggest you Illustrator for because, this is more advanced graphic and having useful features. I have just stared to use Illustrator and i got very excellent results.

 

Illustrator is the best

 

"this is more advanced graphic and having useful features"

I still haven't been told one single feature that Illustrator has, that Corel doesn't have, with the exception of closer integration with Photoshop (though you can actually set Corel up to integrate fully in about 10 mins, there are instructions online). I've just read another few posts saying that Illustrator is more advanced, or Illustrator has more features. HOW??? Could someone enlighten me? I gave a list of a handful of the advantages Corel has. I've used both over the last 10 years (90% Corel mind) and am yet to find out what these magical advantages Illy has are!

I'm not trying to start an argument, just people often post the tangible advantages of Corel on these forums, and the response is just 'illy is industry standard' or 'illy is better' or 'illy rules', but never any reason. It worries me how easily brainwashed people seem to be into parting with 3 times the cash!

Incidentally, any printer worth their salt (and my company is printing and graphic design) should be printing from PDFs anyway, not illustrator files where you are likely to have endless problems with fonts.

 

Illustrator is better in my opinion because for any reason if you wanted, you can transfer it to other Adobe Products.

 

I would also suggest illustrator as it is the industry standard.

 

Sounds like my position when I started working here. I can't help you on a website link, but I can share my experience. I was on a crappy PC with Corel Draw 9 and a copy of Photoshop 4.0 LE. (We now have a G3 iMac with the Adobe Suite that came with PS 7, AI 10, and ID 2).

Corel Draw in my experience was horrible. It frequently had some sort of program error that sent me back to the drawing board too many times, the interface is horrible, screen redraw was bad (this is even on a 2Ghz XP machine these days). Perhaps I'm biased because I love Illustrator so much, but I find it's interface far more intuitive and I'm a lot more creative with it than I ever was with Draw (it felt more like a chore).

The ONLY thing I liked about Corel Draw was it's ability for multiple pages, and the Corel TRACE program (why oh why can't they sell this software seperately? Or at least update Adobe Streamline to use OS X natively...).

The single best argument (as you said) is that Corel Draw just isn't all that compatible with the print world. Almost any graphics place has Quark, Photoshop, Illustrator, (and InDesign is finally starting to make the rounds), but when I had Corel Draw, it was difficult to find a place around here that dealt with it. Heck, Corel is even phasing out their Mac software (if they haven't already). Of course, you can export files and such into EPS, but I sometimes had conversion problems when opened by Illustrator on the other end. Not to mention multiple page output in seperate files isn't always fun. The Adobe Suite is standard, and you'll know that 85% (or higher) of the places will deal with it.

I'll warn you on one thing about Illustrator 10...that program had 'some' problems too, primarily with printing (or refusing to print). Not always, but every now and then it would give me such an issue. I have been using Illustrator CS at home for about six months and have found that they've corrected a lot of the problems I was previously having with output. Of course, the CS suite or standalones might not be within your work's budget.

 

i'm using Corel Draw but so many bro suggest Illustrator, i think i will take a look at that

 

illustrator is better for me, complicated but once you get used to it , you will love it

 

I use Illustrator

 

I like using Illustrator for several reasons, I was used to experienced Photoshop and his explanations and courses are intensive

 

yhee illastratur is fat better than corel draw

 

Illustrator is always preferred over Corel draw. It has advanced graphic features. A professional will always go for Illustrator.

 

all returned to the person wearing the software, because the design is not only the software that determines the ability, creativity of the people who contribute more. I use Corel, though many of my friends who suggest using adobe, once again back to the people who use it

 

Illustrator for me. Generally, I looooove Adobe products..

 

I use Corel for vectorizing. It's much more easier to drag the points and play with the Bezier curves.
What I don't like about it are the keyboard shortcuts. I'm used with those from Adobe.