Well -- There seems to be a lot of opinions on CD12. I own CD 8 and 9 plus Xara X. I tried Illustrator 9 as a trial download and found it's interface clumsy and costly $$$$$ by comparison. But as OklaEd said earlier NOTHING but NOTHING beats XX as an illustrator program.

The more I try CD 12, the more I appreciate the changes and the ability to organize my work. The new features are well described on some of the Corel Draw websites

http://www.clicknlearn.com

I'm sure that XX has many of those capabilities until I tried to format some text for a real estate brochure - I needed some unique formatting and quickly.

I will always use and support XX but my copy of CD 12 is on order and back-logged BTW.

Wayne D