Well Guys;

I've learned a couple things about this forum, most notably that it's helpful. 4 replies in half an hour is similar to my Rhino 3D help forum, so GOOD ON YA!

I could have sworn (politely) that I tried the Warp Effect. It may be some simple error, such as clicking vertical, not horizontal, but I'll try exactly this when I get home tonight. Wade, the 3D thing is neat too, and could possibly be useful for another task.

Bert, I think I tried the Mesh as well, but I couldn't seem to move any of the nodes or control points independently. Not sure why. Maybe, I have to "unlock" the nodes so they can move separately. I know I can redefine the number of mesh lines, in 2 axes, for finer tuning of the shape, but I couldn't move the corner points. Again, I'm coming at this whole CS5 bass-ackwards, trying to jog before walking.

The only reason I bought Illustrator was to supply the right file type to the Dye-Sub printer, and in the right colour book (Pantone Solid Coated). I actually draw all of my vector shapes in Corel Draw, colour them, then open as an RGB file in Illustrator, and recolour the objects in Pantone Solid Coated. Cumbersome, but it works. I suspect that CS5 is infinitely more flexible than Corel Draw, but I have nothing but good to say about the Corel products. I've really learned to draw and 2D shape with Corel, incredibly easily.

I'll try to learn more about CS5, but with so many tools, that's a long flat learning curve.

Thanks again for the fast help. Tom, Ottawa Canada.

Hi Jet;

Thanks for the additional thoughts.

I use Corel Draw 9. They're probably up to V12 or more now. In my version, there are several Pantone colour books, but not Pantone Solid Coated, specifically. That's why I couldn't apply the required colours to my objects with Corel.

Also, the warp tool that I asked about here, is not available in my version of Draw. I went home and applied the methods that I was shown in this thread, with CS5, and it worked perfectly. Piece of cake in fact.

I've learned how to re-colour artwork in Illustrator. And to confine all new colours to a specific colour book, such as the Pantone S. C. I've also confirmed that the swimwear printing company can open my CS5 files and see all the colours, so the system is working as hoped. There was no way we could solve this just using my version of Corel.

I still say though, that Corel has been an absolutely outstanding program to use, and drawing with it is incredibly easy. Corel for 2D and Rhino for 3D have both been extremely intuitve, and that's what draws me to a software. Autocad 2D, for example, was an un-intuitive nightmare, at least for me.

Thanks again, Tom.