Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw

So the question is very simple : what would you choose ? Adobe illustrator or Corel Draw ?

Personally I find both very easy to work with but when it comes about drawing stuff I prefer Corel Draw.

If I need to create for example business cards or maps/ presentation folders, I think Adobe Illustrator is easier to use.

Please share you experience regarding this topic : Adobe Illustrator vs Corel Draw

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I agree with you. Corel is to more advenced users, Illustrator is easer to use, but it has less features :)

I've been in the graphics arts/print industry for 8 years and am fluent in both Illustrator and corel draw. I work soley with illustrator and photoshop. Corel...no offense is a joke. Try to do basic colour matching with large format printers and see what happens...colour range is very limited not to mention the colour examples on screen are wayyyy off (royal blue's appear to be bright purple on screen?) try designing a remax ad with a client and tell them that the purple will actually be blue.... Not to mention that all printers and plotters run from eps formats and are totally accessaby by photoshop, AI, corel draw etc. Where as CDR files can only be opened by corel, also when exporting basic jpegs from corel it corrupts the file and will not be able to be opened by anything other than corel, NOT EVEN PHOTOSHOP! Conversion from illustrator to corel is fine, yet conversion from corel to AI is terrible fonts replace itself, compound paths get released, gradients split into thousands of lines, and the list goes on. Bottom line Adobe is industry standard and when you get into bigger agencies corel is the industries dirty little secret. Two good points that corel has over Ai is its instant font conversion when people forget to convert their fonts to curves, and its unlimited page space.

Choosing one from these two totally depends upon your personal choice. I think that coral draw offers some more advanced features than adobe illustrator. I am using coral draw. I have been using CD since version 4 and am now using version 11. It has newsgroups that you can also post to, but you must access through your email software.

From what I've experienced, Corel has a more user-friendly interface. Adobe Illustrator seamed to me harder to learn, a couple of years ago.

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