Due to space restrictions the images that accompany the printed review are not included on this page. You can however see them in the PDF version of our newsletter. It definitely looks like a Windows application. The only way I could switch out of the application was to go to the application menu, or use the keyboard shortcut in MacOS 8.5 and higher. Instead of organizing options in floating palettes, you must dig through dialog boxes.
Visual cues aid a user in understanding that a complex operation is taking place.
On the Mac the standard behavior is to throw up a window complete with a progress bar. At first I found this quite frustrating, as I could not tell if my commands were being enacted. That was until I noticed this subtle little progress bar that is nested in the gray on gray background surrounding the workspace. Corel uses their own choices for tool bar icons. This is not bad in and of itself but does add to the learning curve.