Using Corel Draw insted of illustrator

[simoncbb]

I wanted to know if their was a way i could use Corel Draw as the Vector Editor insted of Illustrator whenever i try to use it it just opens a text box with some text in it

[rulirahm]

Never tried of Corel but maybe I'll use it because AI took my RAM like hell.

[sellis]

Corel Draw is supposed to be a pretty comprehensive set of tools. Been around for years.
However - it never quite captured the professional market.
Adobe illustrator is expensive, but is solid and dependable & all adobe products are memory hogs these days.
So the answer is...if you need to edit vector graphics you should use illustrator...they even do a 30 day trial if you need it...

Otherwise I am surprised that Coreldraw doesn't open the files OK.

on reflection, I have opened vector files that looked empty until I selected all the content on screen, and gave it a colour! (the file had the vectors but the "ink" colour had been discarded..)