Corel Draw 11 not working in Mountain Lion

Snow Leopard, 10.6.x was the last version of OS X to support apps written for PowerPC CPUs. Lion, 10.7.x and later will not run such apps. You'll have to upgrade to a newer version of Corel Draw, revert to a version of OS X which will run the software, or install Snow Leopard on a separate partition you can boot to and run it from there.

If this is a new Mac, then your easiest solution is to upgrade to a newer version which will run natively on an Intel based Mac since you cannot install Snow Leopard on that Mac.

Prakashonline wrote:

Awaiting for a good idea to run corel draw 11 in my moutain lion version.?

There is no way.

You have 2 alternatives.

Upgrade Corel Draw 11 to a version which will run on Mountain Lion (Corel Draw 2013)

or

Downgrade your Mac (if possible) to Snow Leopard (10.6). Corel Draw will not work in Lion or Mountain Lion (10.7 and 10.8)

As Csound1 and I both noted, it's not possible to open a PPC app in Lion or Mountain Lion.

Corel Draw as an upgrade to the X6 version is $199. (Csound1 mistakenly linked to CorelCAD).

Another possibility is to attempt to install Snow Leopard client into a VM such as Parallels. The VM and a retail copy of Snow Leopard combined would be a bit less, but not at all worth the time and effort to make it work. For the somewhat minor cost difference, just upgrade Corel Draw to a version which will run on your newer Mac as is.

Ooops (for my wrong link) and Ooops again. The Corel Draw upgrade linked to in your post is Windows only!

Can't find a current Corel Draw that will run on Mountain Lion at all 😟

Can't find a current Corel Draw that will run on Mountain Lion at all 😟

Awwww! You're right. 😢 I do remember now reading a while back that Corel was abandoning the Mac platform for most of their products. Seems like a pretty dumb thing to do with the Mac platform coming on so strong the past couple of years.

That's Corel, though. They drop software titles like hot potatoes. Wish I could find it again, but there was a post by someone in the Corel forums who listed at least two dozen well known software titles they acquired, did one or two small upgrades on, and then stopped development.

Here's a classic example. They acquired Knockout from Ultimatte and sold it without any real changes. Snapped it up at the time because I'd always wanted to use it, but it was $500 from Ultimatte, and Corel had an initial "get me" price of $99. The version 2 upgrade here was the last time it was developed, all the way back to OS X, 10.3.x, and they have the gall to continue to sell it as a current product. It doesn't even work under Snow Leopard, much less Lion or Mountain Lion.

Kurt Lang wrote:

Another possibility is to attempt to install Snow Leopard client into a VM such as Parallels.

Here is a recent post I made for a similar problem:

TO: The OP

Hello! Given your lack of knowledge of Macs, I will try to keep this as simple as possible for you.

Macs ran from 1996 through 2006 on a Central Processing Unit (CPU) called the PowerPC. Windows software ran on the Intel CPU platform. Apple made the decision to switch its complete inventory of Macs to Intel in 2006, but did not want to financially penalize its existing base of users who had a substantial financial investment in their existing PowerPC software.

So Apple licensed a third party technology, which they called Rosetta and installed it in OS X (at that time Tiger, then Leopard, then optionally Snow Leopard), which transparently and almost magically emulated the PowerPC CPU instructions on the Intel CPU. Rosetta worked so well that most Mac users had no idea what it was, or what it was doing for many years after 2006.

The problem is that Apple's license to continue to develop, install and use Rosetta for OS X expired with the release of Lion and now Mountain Lion. Hence, older PowerPC applications will no longer run natively on Lion or Mountain Lion.

The best solution, if it is available, is an upgrade for your PowerPC software that has been rewritten to work on the Intel CPU. If this upgrade is available, there is generally a financial cost to purchase it and many such upgrades are very costly, especially cumulatively. Presumably, Corel was never rewritten to work on the Intel CPU.

Since it appears that you have purchased a new Mac, it must boot Mountain Lion, so another alternative, the so-called "dual-boot" approach, is not available to you.

That leaves using what is called virtualization on your Mac to be able to run this software.

One solution is to run Windows on your Mac (either in what is called Bootcamp, or in virtualization through the use of a third party program offered by Parallels or VMWare Fusion). Is there a Windows version of Corel that you would be happy and satisfied to run? You would have to purchase Windows and presumably the Windows version of Corel as well.

Another solution is to run Mac OS X Snow Leopard in virtualization on your Mac. This is the version of OS X that just preceeded Lion and Mountain Lion and is the last one that can have Rosetta installed into it.

Parallels and VMWare Fusion only support the installation of a version of Snow Leopard called Snow Leopard Server. While it is easy to install and is supported, it originally sold by Apple for $499+. While Apple no longer sells it, it is available on eBay and I have seen it selling recently for $51 - $99+. Parallels and VMWare Fusion each sell for about $79 retail and shopping on the internet can yield some discounts. You only need one or the other, not the both of Parallels or VMWare.

There is also a free virtualization program offered by Oracle, called VirtualBox. I have no experience with this program and I do not know if Snow Leopard or its Server version can be installed on it.

A more complicated approach is the installation of the normal Snow Leopard into Parallels. Apple still sells Snow Leopard for $19.99, but you would have to follow the installation instructions I have offered online. This may be too challenging for you to undertake, but the instructions are located here:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1365439

You can also download a 14 day free trial of Parallels here:

http://trial.parallels.com/index.php?lang=en&terr=us

It will look something like this on your iMac (and the Snow Leopard screen can be enlarged to encompass the complete screen; it is minimized here to show that Lion is running in the background):

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I am sure you will have questions; so let me know what they are...

In this case, your instructions for the client version of running SL in a VM is the OP's cheapest option. It's either that, or quit using Corel Draw and move to Adobe Illustrator.

I did mention it above, but didn't think that would be necessary until Csound1 discovered the latest version was Windows only.

How do I downgrade to 10.6.8? I upgraded to Mountain Lion and I absolutely hate it. It has slowed both of my Macs down to about 20% of previous speed. It's a nightmare.

If there is a thread here on doing that please point me in the direction of it. I have used ML now for about two months and I think it's the slowest OS in history.

Plus half of my previous apps don't work. They don't tell you THAT except in the fine print, until it's too late.

You can restore any backup you have where the system was still Snow Leopard. If you don't have a backup, then the only way is to erase the drive and install SL and all of your apps from square one.