Then, in 2001, Corel swallowed Micrografx whole. They announced: "Designer will be discontinued. Please use CorelDRAW."
"Micrografx," I said. "It doesn't think it's an artist. It thinks it's a drafting table." micrografx designer
We all scoffed. We had CorelDRAW on the disc-cutting machine downstairs. Designer? That was the other vector program. The one for engineers. The one with the icon that looked like a slide rule. Then, in 2001, Corel swallowed Micrografx whole
In Designer, I worked in . Ellipses stayed ellipses. Rectangles remembered they were rectangles. I could group, weld, and trim like a machinist. The interface was ugly—gray, modal dialog boxes, a toolbar that looked like Windows 3.1’s calculator—but it never lied to me. modal dialog boxes