Fonts, Illustrator, and CorelDraw

While helping out with the layout department, I often receive artwork for badges and lanyards in bitmap images. We cannot use bitmap images for our printing processes so we normal try and see if we can get some vector art from the customer. Unfortunately, they do not always have their logo ready in high quality vector format. Lucky for us Illustrator and CorelDraw both have tracing abilities. Illustrator and CorelDraw do fairly well with re-creating shapes, but both seem to suffer when it comes to text. We usually end up manually going through each font in our database and comparing it to the font in the logo or one similar to it. I am a really big fan of Illustrator CS3 and use it for most of the shape re-creation, but CorelDraw has an awesome feature when it comes to the fonts. If I type out a word in the logo, select it, and then scroll through the fonts, the fonts I scroll through will have the text that I selected! Even still, we may not have a font even close to the one in the logo. So my conclusion is that Illustrator and CorelDraw are both great tracing tools for different purposes, but the search continues for the ultimate tracing software.