CorelDRAW 11 To Be
Released This Week!
Our April Fools page was more effective than we could have ever imagined. Here is what our home page displayed on Monday, April 1, and what some of the reactions were...
With swiftness and a stealthiness that surprised most Corel analysts, CorelDRAW Program Manager Tony Shivernuk announced the availability of version 11 of Corel’s flagship CorelDRAW product.
Giving critics even more to take notice of are the impressive numbers that accompany the new release:
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SPEED: 35 to 45% performance increase across the board.
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EFFICIENCY: Able to run on any system with at least 64MB of RAM.
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CROSS-PLATFORM: One installation that automatically senses the operating system of the user—Windows, Mac, Linux, and now Commodore—and installs the appropriate version.
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REDUCED WAISTLINE: With TinyDLL™, Corel’s on-the-fly dynamic link library compression, the entire program weighs in under 50MB.
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BETTER PRINTING: Corel’s new PrintSmart technology ensures proper printing by consulting an internationally-maintained database of all known printing requirements and issues for a given output device. If the typeface you are using has ever failed to print to the printer you have chosen, any time since 1984, PrintSmart will warn you.
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EXCELLENT PRICING: You can upgrade to CorelDRAW 11 for just $79.95 from any of the following applications:
– Any version of CorelDRAW
– Any version of any Adobe product
– QuarkXpress 5.01 SRB2
– AmigaDraw 1.0
If you would like to learn more about this new release, CLICK HERE to send us an email, asking for our proprietary white papers. The $49.95 fee for our white papers will be applied to the price of the upgrade for anyone who purchases CorelDRAW 11.
-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Severenuk - CorelDRAW Program Manager
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 8:11 AM
To: rick@altman.com
Subject: RE: CorelDRAW 11
Dude:
What kind of traffic do you have on your page? If legal or Ian sees this
I'm outta work.
T.
Ten minutes later...
-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Severenuk - CorelDRAW Program Manager
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 8:39 AM
To: rick@altman.com
Subject: RE: CorelDRAW 11 - Oops
Good one. I totally fell for it. I almost had a freakin' heart attack
when I saw that. I'm going to print out a copy and post it...
From the Corel newsgroups and discussion boards...
Simply awesome! I've been testing it all morning. I'm particularly impressed with the Alt-M-A-N key sequence,
(Metaphorical Art Notation), which allows unskilled people like me to churn out realistic illustrations by simply entering a text description of the scene!
KN Pepper
Unless it can actually do the things it claims this time, I will NOT be upgrading at all. I have been dumped on before with mystical promises, so I will wait and watch this group for the inevitable flood of CDraw 11 workarounds.
Corel Draw 11 reads like a CorelDraw 10 service pack, that they have spent too much time to get right so they are having to charge for it and call it a new version? There is nothing 'really new' other than speed and efficiency boosts, which we were promised going from 9 to 10.
Dion Holswich
Dang...thats some sick joke.
DigitalArtist7
I can't believe I fell into that one.
Bob Friedman
My first reaction was one of complete disbelief -- not about whether Draw 11 was out, but over the fact that Corel had sprung it so stealthily.
Then about 15 seconds into the copy, I realized that something was viciously gnawing my leg!<bg>
Eric Weber
I ordered a copy of Draw 11 from the Altman site as a downloadable copy, so I just intalled it a few hours ago (thank goodness for DSL). The coolest thing is that there is a fully functioning version of Ventura 9 in there! Other than the fact that it can't print to a local printer (that'll be released in a service pack during the summer as soon as they work out some legal issues with the print engine developer), I'm sailing with V9 and Draw 11. Both of these programs work, and no crashes yet (I've been at it for hours). Can't wait to receive the white papers--those had to be mailed via regular mail.
Alan Berman
I just saw a post about Ventura 9 being bundled with DRAW 11. How did that fly under the radar? How could Corel do that without informing us or running a beta?
Mac Roundsome
As we said, better than we could have expected...