CorelDRAW
Sign in to saveCorelDRAW is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Corel Corporation. It is also the name of the Corel graphics suite, which includes the bitmap-image editor Corel Photo-Paint as well as other graphics-related programs (see below). It can serve as a digital painting platform, desktop publishing suite, and is commonly used for production art in signmaking, vinyl and laser cutting and engraving, print-on-demand and other industry processes. Reduced-feature Standard and Essentials versions are also offered.
Key facts
- Software.title
- CorelDRAW
- Software.name
- CorelDRAW
- Software.logo
- 180px
- Software.screenshot
- 250px
- Software.caption
- CorelDraw X8 under Windows 10
- Software.developer
- Corel
- Software.discontinued
- no
- Software.latest release version
- v26.0
- Software.programming language
- C++, C#
- Software.operating system
- Microsoft Windows, macOS
- Software.language
- English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Czech, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Swedish, Japanese
- Software.genre
- Vector graphics editor, Raster graphics editor
- Software.license
- Proprietary
- File format.name
- CorelDraw file format
- File format.screenshot
- CDR-Fileheader RIFF CDR vrsn.jpg
- File format.caption
- Hex dump of the header of a CDR file as RIFF container, written with version 3
- File format.extension
- .cdr
- File format.open
- no
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Article
11 sectionsContents
- History
- Features by version
- Platform and scripting history
- Scripting
- File format
- Structure
- Use of CDR files in other programs
- Other applications supporting CDR files
- See also
- Notes and references
- External links
CorelDRAW is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Corel Corporation. It is also the name of the Corel graphics suite, which includes the bitmap-image editor Corel Photo-Paint as well as other graphics-related programs (see below). It can serve as a digital painting platform, desktop publishing suite, and is commonly used for production art in signmaking, vinyl and laser cutting and engraving, print-on-demand and other industry processes. Reduced-feature Standard and Essentials versions are also offered.
== History == In 1987, Corel engineers Michel Bouillan and Pat Beirne undertook to develop a vector-based illustration program to bundle with their desktop publishing systems. That program, CorelDraw, was initially released in 1989. CorelDraw 1.x and 2.x ran under Windows 2.x and 3.0. CorelDraw 3.0 came into its own with Microsoft's release of Windows 3.1. The inclusion of TrueType in Windows 3.1 transformed CorelDraw into a serious illustration program capable of using system-installed outline fonts without requiring third-party software such as Adobe Type Manager; paired with a photo-editing program (Corel Photo-Paint), a font manager, Corel Capture, and several other pieces of software, it was also part of the first all-in-one graphics suite.