That would have been true today if Apple never screwed over the Mac clone makers.Īnyhow, CorelDraw was a suite back then as it still is today. Back then it was believed that if you're going to become a "designer" you must use a Mac.
#COREL VS ILLUSTRATOR FOR DECAL DESIGNER SOFTWARE#
The only reason "Adobe" became industry standard is because Apple pushed their Macs for Graphic designs which meant that all designing software were mainly developed for Macs. I still use Illustrator but mostly for converting AI and EPS files to Adobe Illustrator CS3 AL & EPS formats (industry standards). Today, I still use CorelDraw X6 for almost all of my vector work.
CorelDraw was much easier to use and did a lot more than Illustrator did. Illustrator 6 on the Mac and Corel 5 on the PC. But that was the only app I could get the plotter to cut lmao. Shoot I remember having to use a app called sign maker which I thought was a crude version of Ai. When vinyl signage was in the infancy corel and others were ahead of Ai especially connecting and running from a plotter. In this case its not practice but more like searching and learning. I'm trying to use it though and being a long-time AI user, I'm having quite difficulty on using it but as what they say, practice makes perfect.īut if you prefer on a free version of vector software, try to download Inkscape and if you're an expert on using Corel Draw, you could use that with a breeze because it's very similar to the look, feel and functionality on Corel Draw to Inkscape but for a long time AI users, its gonna be difficult. But in most of the garments or clothing companies, they prefer on Corel Draw rather than AI because according to them, Corel is more professionally made than in AI in which they seen it as an amateurish type of vector software and it's not great for t-shirt design on using AI and it's quite true.
IMHO, Illustrator is much better and user friendly than in Corel Draw especially on the latest version CS6 (see my name for a proof).