I'm ready for the test!

All I need to do is think about the day it was -48 degrees here at home in January.... Brrrrrrr.... :-p

JD

FosterCoburn:

I think my favorite was something about Canadians who spontaneously combust here in the summer. I've yet to see it,
but I guess the July heat will test our Canadian attendees. :)

I've been using Draw since version 3. I occasionally have to open Illustrator - mainly to see if I can kick a file over to Draw. There are actually a few things Illustrator has that would really be great to have in Draw:

1) 3-D effects: Revolve, etc. This is good stuff.

2) Vector feathering. Why not? Xara has it too.

3) Gradient (Fountain Fill) distortion. Why can't it be made to follow a shape just like enveloping?

4) Distorting bitmaps. Also like enveloping.

These are the things I think Draw needs. It's just a few things, but they are BIG things.

 Hi

I personally use both efficiently. Mostly Graphic Design (Logo Design / Advertising)

-  Illustrators advantages 

1. is being more popular among printing presses, so I had to learn it so I can always send designs to printing.

2. Arabic Handling does not cause it to crash

3. EPS handling

Several other features make illustrator a real pain such as those I daily confront:

1. Curves & nodes handling in Illustrator stinks

2. The trim and intersect in illustrator looses the objects in action while in corel they remain

3. No sheets in illustrator, so if you need to export several sheets into a single PDF, it takes 5 minutes in corel and 5 hours in Illustrator

4. Can't control gradient precision in Illustaror, direction is numerical in AI and can't offset the center and direction easily

5. can't export selection only in AI as in corel

... the list of corel advantages never ends

This is an older thread, but I seem to have missed an earlier opportunity to opine, so I think I will... thanks faditech, for reviving it!

I use both as well.  I only use illustrator when forced into it by a customer (even then I will often do the balance of my work in Corel and export).

With the type of work I do, I can do the same illustration twice as fast in Corel as I can in illustrator.  Some of that may be that I'm more comfortable with Corel due to use than I am with illustrator, but I know I'm much faster than my contemporaries using illustrator.

For me, time is money.  There is just no comparison to Corel when considering productivity.

Rob