Them Graphics Editors

I personally have never been a fan of the Adobe centric approach to vector programs.

Purely because Adobe with their trash Illustrator Software created one of the slowest workflows I have ever experienced and this is propagated through all the clones that exist today.

Almost all the tools from web editors to desktop publishing software have adopted the "Layers" approach to their design windows, more than that they expand this idea to "Pages" through something I think many call artboards as though this is some impressive concept.

Really the only one that just does it properly is CorelDraw, and I would need to iterate that I am specifically talking about vector design and layouts.

Why this is confounding is because most Adobe centric software will require you to have another one alongside the Vector one, it is usually called a Publisher of sort, which I guess they again copied from Microsoft Publisher, another absolutely useless piece of software which is every secretaries goto for making the multi-page brochures.

This is quite irksome because Vector design is frankly no different from page layout work and this in turn is a given that at some point you will want to make a double page flyer then get grand and make a whole magazine.

Why not?

But no, the fancy design studios have mandated that people use the most inefficient software for these tasks.

Fortunately we do now have Canva for web but for all intents and purposes no free option for desktop publishing.

I think Canva is great but would likely struggle a bit to manage a 100 page design heavy document and obviously it lacks any real design features although the simple fact that it support multipage layouts is a step up from most paid software out there.

So basically after 20 years the only real desktop publishing software that exists and gets the job done is CorelDraw purely because all the Adobe Illustrators and Publisher wannabe's don't seem to understand that vector and layout go hand in hand.