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Corel still maintains WordPerfect too, last release was 7 months ago
WPS Office seems to have cornered the market for MS Office alternatives, i.e. WPS runs in Linux, Wordperfect doesn't.
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> WordPerfect lacks support for Unicode, which limits its usefulness in many markets outside North America and Western Europe. Oh my. I do know WP was popular in Law Offices long after Word had taken the market. Not sure if that is still the case.
The issue was (and probably still is) that MS Word paginates footnotes improperly. They can't change it because it will break backwards compatibility. This handed the legal market to WP. And because you can't reliably import/export the documents and get pagination to work, you often have legal firms using Word to do the initial preparation and then hand it over to a legal secretary to type the whole thing into WP --…
Corel still exists?! Good for them!
I suppose Corel Draw is still popular, even though it's not the favourite of most graphical artists/designers.
There's really no iPad equivalent to Corel Painter, but Corel registered the procreate.com domain to redirect to their Painter product page (Procreate (procreate.art) by the Australian company Savage is one of the strongest digital art applications on the iPad).
Corel has also recently purchased Gravit Designer, which presumably will stand as their main digital design app that competes with Sketch and Adobe XD.
I just started using a Mac this year, and I need to run Linux and Windows for testing reasons. I'm starting to do more freelance work now, so I'll have some Windows-focused work as well. Right now I have separate machines for each OS, but I'd like to just use a Mac and get rid of my other machines. I've played with Virtualbox, but I haven't used Parallels or VMWare. Does this acquisition make Parallels any more or le…
I've been using Parallels Desktop to develop & test Windows software from a Mac for the last decade. It's excellent, and I would definitely grab a perpetual copy of the current version while you can. VMware Fusion is the other contender, but consensus seems to be that Parallels is now dramatically faster than all the competition [1]. I just bought a Thinkpad and switched back to Windows, so I'm looking for VM softwar…
Are you using a GUI in the VM a lot?
Interesting time to buy such a company when there are so many strong rumors pointing to the Mac's impending ARM chip future...
Corel still exists?! Good for them!
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Other than Photoshop, what are the favorites these days?
Serif products (Affinity) have been on a roll, last I checked.
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These days it seems like basically acquire software companies. They own Winzip, Paintshop and Painter, for example.
They own Winzip Some were shocked to learn Corel was still around, whereas I'm shocked to learn Winzip is still around. Especially since Windows finally got around to adding native zip64 support in what...XP SP3 I think it was?
EDIT: Even more shocking: they own both WordPerfect and Quattro Pro both of which are, apparently, still around. Absolutely stunned.
Corel still exists?! Good for them!
The bigger surprise to me is that they not only exist, but have the money to buy Parallels.