CorelDRAW 11 for Windows at Dominant Systems Book Store

CorelDRAW 11 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide offers step-by-step instructions covering all the basics of CorelDRAW 11, including all the newest features, page and document set-up, text special effects, object arrangement, symbols, clip art & bitmaps, and CorelDRAW components. Additional special topics include CorelDRAW and the Web, converting paragraph text to curves, and printing, preflighting, and creating PDF files. A must-have for all CorelDRAW 11 users.

Customer Reviews & Comments
I agree with the previous reviewer -- the Quickstart Guides for CorelDraw 11, and 10, and 9, etc. have become simple rehashes of the previous edition. This makes it very dull and repetitive to wade through, and when an upgraded software package debuts, the books give little hint as to what is new and different from previous editions. This becomes very important to those of us who must use the software in our work and are not given either training nor time to work through the enormous number of new or reworked features in the huge and complicated CorelDraw programs. The Corel manuals that come with the software are awful -- incomplete, fuzzy, almost no illustrations or helpful graphics, and leaving you abuzz with questions unanswered. So it falls to the Quickstart Guides and similar books to fill in the gaps, and these editions fall flat. The authors seem to feel that the book can be just an upgrade -- run through the text, update anything new and slap in on press. Rerun the same trite illustrations again, same headlines, same photos. Readers deserve better -- a good portion of the readership is reading the book primarily to gain knowledge of the details of a new version of CorelDraw, and the repetitions picked up from earlier editions, coupled with a lack of any real depth, makes for a book that should, and could, be much better. The editors who have approved this approach have forgotten the wonderfully fresh and original approach of the early Quickstart Guides -- their interpretation of what the reader needs and deserves is tired and decidedly unhelpful. When you pay for a new book, you should get a new book.

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