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Sou usuário do CorelDRAW há mais de 15 anos e, desde 2022, venho tentando migrar definitivamente para o Adobe Illustrator, já que assino o pacote Adobe. No entanto, essa transição tem sido desafiadora, principalmente por conta da diferença nos atalhos de teclado.
No CorelDRAW, meu fluxo de trabalho é extremamente fluído graças ao uso de teclas como Page Up, Page Down, Home e End, que são amplamente empregadas para funções repetitivas. No Illustrator e no Photoshop, porém, essas teclas não podem ser personalizadas da mesma forma, o que torna a adaptação mais difícil para quem está acostumado com a lógica do Corel.
Minha sugestão para a Adobe é que essas teclas sejam liberadas para personalização nativa dentro do Illustrator ou que seja disponibilizado um plugin que permita configurar atalhos de maneira mais flexível. Isso facilitaria a transição de profissionais que ainda estão no CorelDRAW, mas que gostariam de migrar para o ecossistema Adobe sem comprometer a produtividade.
Sempre que converso com colegas que enfrentam essa mesma dificuldade, a opinião é unânime: a principal barreira para adoção definitiva do Illustrator não é a ferramenta em si, mas a impossibilidade de replicar um fluxo de trabalho eficiente através dos atalhos que já dominamos.
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I know how you feel. I've been using both Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW for over 30 years. One of the reasons I first started using Illustrator was that it could paste vector paths into Adobe Photoshop. CorelDRAW can't do that. Both applications have their own unique features, strengths and weaknesses. It takes some mental adjustment to move from the CorelDRAW user interface into the Adobe Illustrator user interface.
I've been unable to completely get rid of CorelDRAW. I have decades worth of CorelDRAW CDR files and hardly any applications outside CorelDRAW can open or import those kinds of files. CorelDRAW is also very good at performing certain kinds of drawing tasks. However, Adobe Illustrator is great for other kinds of drawing tasks. Keyboard shortcuts are a factor in both cases.
It is very difficult to customize Adobe Illustrator's keyboard shortcuts to behave like those in CorelDRAW. One reason is so many possible keyboard shortcut assignments have been used. Changing one keyboard shortcut is liable to break one or more shortcuts for other functions. Illustrator's workspace can be greatly customized though.
I love the keyboard shortcuts in CorelDRAW for aligning and distributing objects. The shortcuts are so simple. R=Right, L=Left, T=Top, B=Bottom, C=Center, E=Even. Add the Shift key to distribute along those six directions. To make things even more easy CorelDRAW automatically locks in place the last object added to a selection. The combination can allow certain kinds of technical drawing tasks to be done very fast. I have not been able to create a set of custom keyboard shortcuts in Illustrator that are similar at all to the align/distribute shortcuts in CorelDRAW. I have to open the Align panel to do those kinds of tasks in Illustrator.
Likewise, I have never been able to modify the right combination of keyboard shortcuts in CorelDRAW to make its awful pen tool work like the pen tool in Adobe Illustrator. In Illustrator I can use my left hand to toggle keyboard shortcuts to zoom in/out and move the artwork view with the hand tool. I am able to do that while drawing a path with the pen tool and I can edit a path with the pen tool while I'm drawing it. Freehand was the only other vector graphics application I know of that had similar keyboard shortcuts. I can manually trace vector paths over scanned artwork in Adobe Illustrator far faster than I can do so in CorelDRAW.
If you manage to migrate fully to Adobe Illustrator, don't lose your CorelDRAW installers. Keep a working copy of it so you can open and edit any existing CDR files you have. Adobe Illustrator will not open or import CDR files. If I need to move some CorelDRAW artwork over to Illustrator I have to export AI files from CorelDRAW in order to do so.