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In article <562@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM>, ries@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Marc Ries) writes...

]In article <2592@ariel.unm.edu> dcaffey@hydra.unm.edu (Dom Caffey) writes:
]>I'm interested in hearing people's comments on Corel-Draw for
]>MS-Windows-386?
] 
]  I posted a similar question a month or so ago about
]  Corel-Draw vs. Micrografix Designer vs. Arts & Letters Graphics Editor.
] 
]  I received ONE response, from an real-live graphics illustrator, who
]  basically said "it does about everything I would want to do.  I like it."
] 
]  One of the (my perceived) problems, it that for speed, C-D does all of
]  it manipulations via wire-frame: you pop-up another, non-editable window 
]  to review the "colorized" version.
] 
]  In Micrografix, you can design in either wire or solids.  I've had a 
]  chance to play around with Micrografix Draw, but I wasn't exactly blown
]  over by it, either.  Maybe I'm looking for too much?
] 
]  If anyone has used Arts&Letters, I would like to hear from them.

I have used all three products, each of which has some 
virtues.  I use Corel a lot, and it is far and away the 
fastest of the three.  Since it meets my needs at the 
moment, I have concentrated on it, to the exclusion of
the other two packages.  My impression is that all things
taken together, it is the best for general illustration,
but Draw/Designer and A&L each have unique features that
may sway you in their direction.

As to your specific objection about not being able to edit
Corel's view window, one solution (and the one I tend to
use) is a large monitor so you can conveniently have both
windows up at once.  The view window update can be slow,
especially if there are lots of text objects and complex
fills, but you can select to update it only when you click
on it, if you like.

A feature they *could* do something about is that when
the view window is zoomed in, time still goes away while
the view is updated for portions outside the current frame.
I suppose that's easier to code, but it is definitely
slower to watch, for reasonably complex images.

The PostScript it generates for an EPS export is also just
a little flakey as to the bounding box, and this can be
very annoying when you're trying to size or position the
image after importing it into Ventura, for example.

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