Every once in a while, I get the question about why Corel has multiple bitmap / photo-editing products, what are the differences between each and which one to choose. While an option would have been to merge them all into one, having different solutions available to answer different users needs has been, and remains the way to go forward for us.

First Corel PHOTO-PAINT (this is posted on CorelDRAW.com after all). This…

I recently came across a fun typography related web site called Wordle. According to the site, it "is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print…

From Feburary 26 to 28, 2008, Corel will be exhibiting at the Graphics of the Americas 2009 expo in Miami Beach, Florida. We will be at booth number 666 in Hall B.

If you are interested in attending, here is a link to free expo passes for this show.

As some of you might know, Corel Corporation started as a systems integrator in the Ottawa region, providing all-in-one desktop publishing solutions based around the PC platform. In doing so, Corel started developing and selling utilities for existing DTP applications, but those utilities were command line based and required a lot of work and skills to master. In 1987, a project codenamed Waldo started at Corel to develop…

First, a little disclaimer.The -29 degrees Celsius had nothing to do with my decision to travel to California. I will be in Long Beach, California at the end of this week for the ISS show (http://www.issshows.com/), spending most of my time on the Wilcom booth. While there, I would really enjoy meeting some of you face-to-face to have a discussion about Graphics and the CorelDRAW family of products in particular.…

It's on January 16, 1989 that the first box of CorelDRAW 1.0 left the building in Ottawa, Canada. When the first version was released, it was truly a revolution for the graphics industry, redefining what could be done with a computer. For the first time, graphics users on a PC could create advanced full-color vector graphics and layout, including advanced font handling, and all this in a WYSIWYG application. Yes, I know…

Today, we will be releasing two updates for Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite X4.

The first one, which is called "Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite X4 Hot Fix 1", resolves two known issues:

1. Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite X4 applications would not start after Autodesk Inventor 2009, AutoCAD Mechanical 2009, or Microsoft SQL Server 2008 was installed.
2. When opened or imported in Corel DESIGNER X4, files from…

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 Service Pack 2 will be officially available next week, at what point we will also start pushing it through the in-product notification system that is built-in both CorelDRAW and Corel PHOTO-PAINT. But as a little bonus for the CorelDRAW.com community, you can download SP2 now from this link, and the full readme document is included below (with a list of every change)

Once update to CorelDRAW…

Are you interesting in finding out more about what the latest versions of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite and Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite include and if you should upgrade. Corel is organizing webminars later this month that will give you more details about both products. Here are all the details:

CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X4

See how CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 offers you the ultimate combination of superior design…

CorelDRAW.com continues to grow at a steady rate. Looking back, it took just under a year for the first 10,000 members to sign-up to this community. Well, the next 10,000 members signed-up in less than 8 months! Thank you all for making CorelDRAW.com such a great place to share and learn. And from a Corel perspective, this site has been a fantastic place, helping us better understand your needs and making sure we are…