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Subject: Did corel dump drawings???

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01/19/2008 1:37 AM Alert 

has anyone heard the news that corel have dumped Drawings and switched to wilcom??

I got this email this morning from the ES yahoo group:

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Hi all,
 
I hope you have all been well and I hope I see some of you at the ISS Long Beach show this weekend!
 
I little heads up and exclusive for our friends in the Yahoo group...
 
We have a new site at Wilcom (www.wilcom.com.au) and also something else new, Wilcom DecoStudio e1.
 
Wilcom DecoStudio e1 is the industries first truly multi-decoration design system with a complete integration between Wilcom embroidery software and CorelDRAW. It allows vector converting and building multi-decoration design (print and embroidery in the one design), appliqué, lettering, editing, MONOGRAMMING!!!! (I know a lot of you have been asking about this). It is a new product that Wilcom has developed in co-operation with our new partner Corel.
 
All the features and info are on the site.
 
Corel have completely switched to this new product and this is the only Corel endorsed and supported embroidery product.
 
We'll be showing DecoStudio at the ISS Long Beach show this weekend so you if you want to see it first hand come on down! We'll also be at ISS Orlando in Feb.
 
I can't wait to see the regulars and have a great weekend!
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It says corel made a complete switch and drawings is no longer on the corel site but this new product is http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Product/1200071932142
 
if anyone goes to the show let me know what you think of the product. To far for me to visit.
Frank
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01/19/2008 10:13 AM Alert 

Yes.  We have been beta testing the New 'DecoStudio e1'.  It has the power of CorelDraw and some of ES Greate features and more like Fusion Fill, Appliqué, Input C with 30 Embroidery font,  and True Type Font, a great monogramming that has Boarders and Ornaments.  And you can edit embroidery file(s) in the Embroidery Mode and I can go on.

Layer your design with different techniques of screen print, direct-to-garment, print embroidery, appliqué and more.

You get CorelDraw X3 and Decostudio e1 at a price of under $2,000 USD.

It will be available in March, so if you are in my area (Michigan) you can give me a call and I can tell you about Decostudio e1 and ES products.

I'm hoping to have my new Web site www.advancedwilcom.com up soon,

So if you are looking for some Products & Free Tutorials.

Check out:

 www.advancedwilcom.com coming soon.
Greg K
Unique Embroidery & Printing
Wilcom Authorized Training Center & Distributor

P.S.
I am a Wilcom Authorized Trainer & Distributor; you can find me in the Training; in the Training School section, Categories "US"
or Email me Unique@cablespeed.com
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01/19/2008 6:08 PM Alert 
Thanks greg.

I found lots in google about it. Seems Corel made the switch - http://www.unleash.com/blog/index.asp

and about time
Frank
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01/21/2008 6:08 PM Alert 
Its quite interesting stuff....
Corel as a corporation is orders of magnitude bigger than Wilcom so one has to wonder at the nature of this agreement...
And also exactly what functionality this new Corel product lends from ES....
I would assume that it would be devoid of the bread and butter digitizing tools as if it had these then people might skip ES altogether....
Which I Im assuming is not on the cards so my guess is that the stitch engine and functionality specific to exporting vector to embroidery would be where its at...
In this case its an important marketing boon for wilcom, as they would obviously be looking to get additional sales of ES proper through converting Corel users who wet their lips on DecoStudio and are left still a little thirsty...?

(Assuming that all the fore mentioned is the case.....)
One would still have to wonder weather wilcom has made a wise choice getting into bed with "The Big Boys".
Time will tell I guess. (I feel a bit sorry for DrawWings users looks like they have been hung out to dry....)

I have always thought it would be a good move for wilcom to develop a plug-inn for Corel ETC...
But my motiovation for this thought is obviously very different from Wilcom's motivation in actually doing this (Or vertually the equivalent there of)....
My thought was that if they done this and off their own bat... then in the process it would obviously be necessity have to nut out much of the details of the toolsets and "workflow" steps required for the process of starting with a vetor pic and ending with an embroidery design... and aspect that in ES currently is lagging behind the rest of the app as ES is currently optimised for manually producing designs from scratch (even though some vector conversion funtionality is there).

So my idea (for them) was that this process should be a stepping stone and a learning curve for them so that once these problems were solved this information would allow them to take giant strides with in ES proper by integrating and improving the vector wing of ES.... Which i believe is a significant component of what may compose a "world class embroidery app" in the not to distant future....... I.E a future embroidery app would obviously bring together raster (normal images) to vector conversion and tie this in with toolsets to pick out embroidery objects from the vector ETC ...completing the circle so to speak.....
So that the a future user of ES could via this process take an image of their grandchild (for example) and through a 3 step process....
1) Prepare the image.... (iE active intelegent palete reduction to optimize it for vectorization)
2) vetorize (reduce the image to a vetor trace......)
3) digitize (this would then only require a new toolset and workflow centred around picking out embroidery object outlines from the existing underlying vector...)
which would be a work flow senario which would be orders of magnitude faster than current methods... IE as you would not have to manually digitize outlines as these are already apparent somewhere in the vector "layer". The process would then be using various tools to quickly pick out the shapes and outlines that the user needed (from the vector) with which he needed to form the sides and segments that would form the new embroidery object ETC......

I.E its a new way of digitizing.... (it does have neiche application only however as most artwork the average digitizer uses is too poor to be part of a vetorization process like the one discussed...)
But the spectacular popularity of auto digitizing when it was first touted is testimony to just how aluring this is to the public at large.....
And its equally spectacular failure to deliver what it promised is telling too i guess......
But what wilcom has in fact done is taken this idea and huge potential market... put it in the too hard basket and sold the whole thing wholesale to the corel corporation.....
Which seems to me to be a shame but i guess considering DrawWings ETC they were planning to do off their own bat anyway so better to be in then out i guess.
Just my musings....
Anyway im as interested as anyone to see whats under the hood of deco studio.

David
David Hewitt (Digitizer/Director)
Planet Embroidery (Australia)

web: http://www.planetembroidery.com.au/
email:digitizing@planetembroidery.com.au
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