A marriage made in Heaven..Illustrator & Corel Draw.

Just sayin...
Starting a new job over a year ago, I was forced to do production art in a program called Corel Draw. I was born and raised in Illustrator, and I love so many feature that Illustrator has but..... I have also learned Corel and usig it in print production some of the features just blow away Illustrators version. I got spoiled with the ease of use. Now that my company is trying to switch over to Illustrator we are getting very frustrated. I would love for Corel Draw and Illustrator to get married. Adobe please please please incorporate a tool like the following in next versions of Illustrator
Corels "Power Clip" Vs Illustrator "Clipping Masks"
Corel allows you to put things in a nice clean container. Even in outline view you can not see what is hidden in the power clip. With illustrator in outline view its like nothing was ever put into a clipping mask. I want clean... we put our own printers marks on manually and trying to see through all the scribble it tough.
Better Editing in Corels "Power Clip" Allows you to go in and edit anything from text, color etc. then escape back to your original View. Editing an Illustrator clipping mask is cumbersome to say the least. Lets make it simple please.
Corels "Transform Tools" Vs Illustrator transform tools....
Corels ease of use especially for "step and repeat" is unmached in Illustrator.. Corel is so easy while Illustrator is like driving a semi-truck. Its just plain old clunky!
Don't get me wrong I love Illustrator..... I just wish the two would get married and make the best of both worlds.
Just sayin....

Would like to add Corel's ability to utilize blending modes from Phothsop layers (eg: so Photoshop drop shadows multiply rather than gradiate when placed on top of backgrounds in illustrator).
Illustrator is great, but more competition would be good for the graphics market, so we get the level of software development we had in the past. Where is Kai Krause, we need him.

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