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Corel embraces the touch screen
COREL exclusively revealed its upcoming portfolio of products to The INQ, and it transpires they fully embrace Windows 7's touch screen abilities.
All the new suite's features are fully touch capable. The firm reckons others around will fall by the reef roadside when Windows 7 arrives. Pah!
We have it on good authority that competitors will only be offering minor patches or updates at the time Windows 7 arrives. These releases will only enable W7 compatibility for their respective products, making them only just capable of running the distance future release of Microsoft's OS without crashing and burning.
None of these fixes will enable touch screen features, none will be of any use other than resolving crashing issues and none of the fixes will use any of Windows 7's real abilities at all.
Corel's new product line up will be here soon, months before anyone else even starts thinking about working on touch-screen applications for the new platform. This means, if you read between the lines, you'll be able to run their products on the latest betas and upcoming release candidates - if anyone's brave enough to use it as a main OS.
Of course, it goes without saying that a touch-screen enabled display is needed to make Corel's near-iPhone abilities happen.
It appears at the outset that not only will Corel duff up Adobe on price, but they'll also thump them on features. µ
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This article reads like conspiracy-nut rants mixed in with a lot of fanboy beanbag fondling.
I've been able to use "touchscreen capability" with Photoshop and Illustrator since XP Tablet Edition. And so have many many more people.
Your site's devolved so far in the past few years it's beyond cro-mag.
How many bug fixes and patches would it take to get me to use Corel's cludgy products on ANY OS, let alone Win7? A substantial amount.
Anyone smart enough would read the first paragraph of this entry and move on, like I did. Stop wasting our time INQ.
I assume a fanboy will drop in just below me and shout, "If you don't like it don't read it". whatever...
"If you don't like it don't read it". whatever...
So there
Will regular 30 inch non-touch screens prices crash? I hope so!
At least Corel didn't pay to have the write up !
Good hell, it is hard enough to stop people from touching the monitor to begin with, and now they want software that encourages the practice?! Good hell, that's one program I'm not buying.
I have used CorelDraw since version 1.0 and later Corel PhotoPaint and it has always been a great value and far easier to use than any Adobe products. Corel has a much more deft touch with interface design than Adobe.
A review some time ago of CorelDraw vs. Adobe Illustrator in PC Magazine found that some operations in CorelDraw that took three mouse clicks to accomplish took many dozens in Illustrator.
A touch screen is an excellent way to interface with drawing elements, especially if it is pressure sensitive. So you would have to use some glass cleaner on the monitor, but at least it would have a touch-durable screen, unlike most LCD panels with extremely delicate soft plastic.