CorelDraw Graphics Suite X4

23/01/08

Corel Corporation, a leading developer of graphics, productivity and digital media software, today unveiled the newest version of its award-winning graphics suite, CorelDraw Graphics Suite X4. With more than 50 new and significantly enhanced features, CorelDraw Graphics Suite X4 provides users with the tools, resources and confidence to tackle a wide variety of projects - from logos and Web graphics, to multi-page brochures, to high impact signage and digital displays. New text and page-layout enhancements, market-leading file format compatibility, and an expanded collection of high-quality content make this powerful suite the ultimate design partner, helping users turn inspiration into stunning results.

A comprehensive suite of intuitive page-layout, illustration, photo-editing, and bitmap-to-vector tracing applications, CorelDraw Graphics Suite is the trusted choice of millions of professional and aspiring designers worldwide. The latest version of the suite includes new tools designed to fuel the creative process, simplify project management, and optimise the graphic design workflow.

“As we developed the newest version of CorelDraw Graphics Suite, we consulted with users from a wide variety of industries. We sat with them to observe how they worked, gathering their feedback on how we could create an even better user experience,” said Gérard Métrailler, director, product management, graphics at Corel. “The end result is CorelDraw Graphics Suite X4 - a suite that provides users with easy-to-use tools that deliver outstanding results, while also having a dramatic and positive impact on their day to day productivity”.

CorelDraw Graphics Suite X4 features more than 50 new and significantly enhanced features, including:

New Live text formatting: CorelDraw Graphics Suite X4 introduces live text formatting, allowing users to preview text formatting options before applying them to a document. With this time-saving feature, users can now preview many different formatting options, including fonts, font size, and alignment, removing the trial-and-error” typically associated with the design process.
New Font identification: CorelDraw Graphics Suite X4 now integrates with WhatTheFont, the online font identification service from MyFonts.com. Users can save time by quickly identifying the font used in existing bitmap designs, artwork or other images received from clients.
New Independent page layers: Users can now control and edit layers independently for each page of a document, reducing the occurrence of pages with empty layers. Users can also add independent guidelines for individual pages and master guidelines for an entire document. This gives users the ability to create different layers on a page-specific basis, unconfined by a single document structure.
New Interactive tables: The new, interactive Table tool in CorelDraw Graphics Suite X4 lets users create and import tables to provide a powerful, structured layout for text and graphics. Users can easily align, resize, or edit tables and table cells to suit their designs. In addition, users can convert delimited text and easily add and adjust images in individual cells.
Enhanced Windows Vista integration:CorelDraw Graphics Suite is the only professional graphics suite Certified for Windows Vista. CorelDraw Graphics Suite X4 has been designed to take advantage of the latest innovations from Windows Vista, while still offering a superior experience for Windows XP users. CorelDraw Graphics Suite X4 integrates with the desktop search capabilities of Windows Vista directly from within the Open and Import dialogue boxes, enabling users to search for files by author, subject, file type, date, keywords, or other file properties. Users can also easily add their own keywords, ratings or other notes when saving files in order to better organise their projects.
New CorelDraw ConceptShare integration: The new CorelDraw ConceptShare docker, accessible from within CorelDraw Graphics Suite, integrates a valuable online collaboration tool directly within the user workflow. In a Web-based environment, CorelDraw ConceptShare lets users share their designs and ideas with colleagues or clients in real time. Users can easily create multiple workspaces, upload their designs, and invite others to provide feedback or submit their own ideas without sending large files over email.
New File format support: CorelDraw Graphics Suite X4 maintains its position as market leader in file format compatibility by adding support for Microsoft Office Publisher. Users can also expect seamless compatibility with Microsoft Word 2007, Adobe Illustrator Creative Suite 3, Adobe Photoshop CS3, PDF 1.7 (Adobe Acrobat 8), AutoCAD DXF and AutoCAD DWG, and Corel Painter X, making it easier than ever to exchange files with clients and colleagues.
New Professionally designed templates: CorelDraw Graphics Suite X4 includes 80 professionally designed and customisable templates, giving users a springboard to the design process. Flexible and easy to customise, the templates are accompanied by Designer Notes that provide information on the design choices made for the template, tips for outputting a design based on the template, and instructions for customising the template while still adhering to design principles.
New Specialised fonts: An extended selection of new fonts in CorelDraw Graphics Suite X4 helps users ensure their output is optimised for its intended audience. This specialised collection of fonts includes single-line engraving fonts and OpenType cross-platform fonts, which offer enhanced language support for Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic outputs in WGL4 format.
New Welcome screen: With a new Welcome screen, CorelDraw Graphics Suite X4 provides users with a centralised location to access recently used documents, templates, and learning tools, which include Tips & Tricks and video tutorials. To inspire users, the Welcome screen also includes a gallery that showcases designs created by CorelDraw Graphics Suite users from around the world.

Pricing and availability:

CorelDraw Graphics Suite X4 will be available across Europe for a suggested retail price of £329 for the full version and £149 for the upgrade. The latest version of the suite will be available in English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese from February 2008. All prices exclude VAT.

For more information on CorelDraw Graphics Suite X4 or to download a full-featured, free trial version, please visit the Corel website.

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