What a busy month of January. Thank you for everyone who already downloaded the trial of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4. As you certainly know, we made those available on January 22nd in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and Dutch. At the same time, we are currently in full production mode of the boxes for CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 around the world and expect to start shipping them on February 12, 2008 in the various languages. I had the opportunity to go to the printing company that we use to create the boxes, manual covers and the pages of the digital content manual... here is a little video I took on that day:

For those who downloaded the trial and are worried that the time will run out before they get their box, don't worry. All the evaluation versions of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 are valid for 15 days, but they can be extended for another 15 days. In addition to that, I wanted to share a little more detail about the content of the box. The media this time around will be on a dual-layer DVD as there is a lot of content included. A few highlights of the content: Over 4000 of the 10'000 cliparts are brand new with X4. In addition, the 1000 stock photos are new, high quality and in high resolution (3000x2000 pixel minimum). They have all be licensed and hand-picked from iStockPhoto. And from a font perspective, we continue to include over 1000 OpenType fonts, and we've added even more WGL4 fonts this time around (the fonts that have extended character sets such as cyrilic and greek). And following the discussion I had with some of you at CorelWorld last summer (especially the engravers amongst you), I am also happy to let you know that we are also including 10 single-line fonts with CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4.

The box will also include a full-color, spiral bound digital content manual (the clipart book) of over 450 pages as well as a brand new "Insights from the Experts" book. English and German boxes also get the printed user guide. And one more thing about the printed documentation: we are not only including them in the full box but also in the upgrade version for at least the next few months... those of you who upgrade quickly get everything.

Stay tuned for more details.

Gérard