Corel Draw X3 is worth the price alone for bitmap to vector capabilities

[kerrazy]

Hay all,
Was mucking around with the new Corel Draw X3 yesterday, and wow... The Power Trace feature alone is worth the money. It really has come along way and worth having a look at. www.corel.com
By the way, I bought after only about ten minitues of playing with it, as it will be very useful for us here at the shop.
Dale

[wemme]

Hello Dale, That power Trace being able to convert from bitmap to vector would be quite use full.

[NSchlee (Unregistered Guest)]

I second that. I've used CorelDraw since Ver. 2, I was amazed how Trace cleaned up a jagged 72 dpi bitmap. The new features/improvements in the fillet, scallop and chamfer are a help for vector designs. They buried some of the new features in the Window/Dockers/Menus.

[rookie432]

Just ordered my copy yesterday from e-bay. Wife's a teacher so was able to buy academic version for $89. Can't wait.

Bill

[rookie432]

By the way here is the number one reason to get corel x3 for me. For designing and supplying a great looking proof . I hevn't found a piece of software yet that will give the customer a good impression of gold or guiulding on a sign until I saw this.


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[rookie432]

grrr!.
Why doesn't this site accept my pics no matter how low I set the resolution to 25k or less?

[rookie432]

maybe this
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[NSchlee (Unregistered Guest)]

Corel is making many improvements for the vinyl sign & engraving industries. They have also improved PDF support in X3. It's a great value for the $.

[bleeth]

A quick yahoo shopping search turned up an upgrade for 159 that included a bonus Wacom Tablet.

http://www.pcconnection.com/ProductD...ourceID=k24679

Sounds like a winner

[tim_whitcher]

Bill,
Was that very time consuming to get the reflective effect? That looks great! I've always had problems conveying the look of carved signs using a "flat" vectored image as a proof.
Dave,
I just ordered the upgrade from PC Connection (with the cool tablet). Thanks for the link!!