New Corel-PDF Fusion – anyone tried it?

[Alan Drury]

Yes I bought it. It has no value at all for anybody who uses graphics and it is very slow displaying anything large. Spend your money on premium bonds, your more likely to get a useful return. I think its aimed at the office market rather than the graphics industry, I’m hoping being V1 that it develops into something worth having, I am assuming I’m using it correctly – nice box though.
If you want a print driver for producing pdf get CutePDF, its FREE and retains the colour model with the file.
Alan D

[Tim Painter]

Thanks for that Alan, most disappointing 😕

I have Acrobat Pro but only Version 5 which doesn’t mean the upgrade path requirements for a discount 🙁

[Alan Drury]

Tim, look at Cute. When I upgraded my machine to W7 I looked for an alternative to Acrobat (5) and I was shocked at the cost considering I just wanted to print to a pdf creator. Printing gave me all the benefits of using the print preview tools in Corel, after trying a few, CutePDF was not only the best but was FREE. Acrobat reader is ok for viewing but it does have a 5000mm ish limit to page size and some like Foxit do not
Alan D

[Peter Munday]

Sorry to high jack this thread but Alan I have just got Foxit and want to use it in Corel x4 but when I export to pdf it always comes up with Adobe and not Foxit any ideas.

Peter

[David Rowland]

its still installed, it’s doing my head in and will be uninstalled sometime soon

The loading engine is not as quick as adobe, you can wait a while before you see your large format output file.

No editing tools from what I can see..

It might be okay for Printing out from an application but Corel does that anyway

Useless to us, maybe useful for Corel Wordprocessing people

[Alan Drury]

Peter, I’m not too familiar with Foxit but one of the guys I work with said it is not restricted to the same page size that Adobe stuff is. In Corel you would publish to PDF rather than export but in terms of displaying pdf its a windows association – possibly there is a setting in Foxit to make it the default reader but I don’t know for sure. I may download it and have a look. I use either Corel’s publish to pdf or I print it to Cute either way I tend to use Reader to view.
Alan D