CorelDraw Graphics Suite 12 [OLD VERSION]

by Corel

Product Features

• Design suite for illustration, page-layout vector drawing, and more; includes CorelDraw Graphics 12, Corel Photo-Paint 12, and Corel R.A.V.E. 3
• Over 10,000 professional clipart images; 1,000 TrueType and Type 1 fonts; and 1,000 photos and objects are included
• Highly compatible with Microsoft Office, Corel Wordperfect and most other industry standard applications
• Interactive training CD gets you up to speed quickly and easily
• Ideal for freelance designers, engineers, advertising personnel, and more

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00014TCTA
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 10, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (53 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,895 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #60 in Software > Graphics > Illustration
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

CorelDraw Graphics Suite 12 is a comprehensive graphics solution for Windows XP. Whether you're designing for business or pleasure, CorelDraw Graphics Suite 12 can do it all. The software is ideal for freelance designers; business, printing, publishing and advertising professionals; executives, managers, technicians, and sales support specialists; engineers, scientists, administrative support professionals, and more. And because CorelDraw 12 is optimized for Windows XP, businesses will save hours of training time, assured that employees can begin producing professional graphics almost immediately.

Copy an extensive list of properties from one object to another with the Intelligent Eyedropper tool. Launch demo.

Work quickly with powerful Smart Drawing tools that instantly recognize shapes. Launch demo.

Experiment with creative effects. See the results in real time. Launch demo.

Clean up line drawings and edit curves by removing pieces of line segments between intersections and/or endpoints. Launch demo.

Industry Leading Applications and Features
CorelDraw Graphics Suite 12 includes three industry leading applications -- CorelDraw Graphics 12 for illustration, page-layout and vector drawing; Corel Photo-Paint 12 for professional digital imaging; and Corel R.A.V.E. 3 for motion-graphics creation. These three outstanding applications give CorelDraw Graphics Suit 12 a set of unprecedented features.

Dynamic Guides offer unprecedented levels of control, letting designers create a shape, draw a line, or place an object exactly where they want it, in one easy step. These intelligent enhancements dramatically reduce design time by allowing users to create, size and position objects easily and precisely, with fewer clicks.

When you need to sketch a design quickly and professionally, the Smart Drawing tool offers built-in intelligence to automatically recognize and dynamically smooth the curves of many shapes including circles, triangles, and parallelograms. This allows you to create perfect forms on the fly.

CorelDraw Graphics Suite 12 makes is easier than ever to incorporate text into projects. Users can see detailed changes to type -- including leading and kerning -- regardless of the zoom level, enabling them to view and manipulate on-screen text with ease. Enhanced Align and Distribute features provide more flexibility, precision and control over text layout. Users also have access to more than 10,000 professional clip art images, 1,000 TrueType and Type 1 fonts, and 1,000 photos and objects. And with Unicode support, CorelDraw Graphics 12 lets you seamlessly incorporate multiple languages, including English, Japanese, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek and many others, into a single design.

With the enhanced Touch-up Brush and more than 70 effects filters, removing defects such as dust and scratches from digital images is a breeze. This feature provides a dedicated tool to perform common image/photo touch-ups by intelligently covering unwanted areas. The more the designer brushes over the affected area, the more the effect is amplified.

In addition to all these features, CorelDraw Graphics Suite 12 also gives users access to exceptional software from other leading vendors and industry standard technologies including Bitstream Font Navigator 5.0, Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications 6.3, Kodak Digital Science color management system, and QuickTime 6.0 Player.

Microsoft Office and WordPerfect Office Compatibility
When you create graphics in CorelDraw Graphics Suite 12, you never have to worry about Microsoft Office or WordPerfect Office compatibility. CorelDraw Graphics Suite 12 is a perfect companion to these office suites, making it possible to easily preview and import graphics files into text documents, slide presentations and spreadsheets without needing to worry about file format compatibility. This gives businesses the assurance that their graphics can be incorporated quickly and seamlessly into all business collateral. In effect, CorelDraw Graphics Suite 12 is an entire creative design agency in a box; businesses can now produce their own business and marketing collateral, and can easily create animated graphics for use in presentations and Web sites. The suite also offers improved file compatibility, allowing users to open and save more than 100 file formats, including Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, EPS, PDF and more.

Save Time and Money
With CorelDraw Graphics 12 Windows-based interface, businesses can be assured that users will learn the advanced features quickly and easily. Also, the included interactive lynda.com training CD offers design tips to help users get up to speed quickly on all the suite's new features.

What's in the Box
Four CD-ROMs, including lynda.com interactive training CD, CorelDraw 12, Corel Photo-Paint 12, Corel R.A.V.E. 3, CorelTrace 12, CorelCapture 12; user guide, digital content manual, and quick-start/registration card.

Product Description

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12 is a 4-CD set of applications that no graphic designer, production desiner or technician should be witout. Get all the smart design tools you need in one box, for increasing productivity & creating better graphics! Create lush and vivid colors with the Kodak Digital Science color management system Also features thousands of clipart images, photos and objects Over 1,000 TrueType and Type 1 fonts Visual Basic 6.3 for Application and QuickTime 6.0

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

69 of 73 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This Product ROCKS!!!, February 11, 2004

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"jimminey_c" (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: CorelDraw Graphics Suite 12 Upgrade (CD-ROM)

I have been a user of CorelDRAW for more than 10 years and have often used many other graphics products including the so-called industry leader Adobe products. After using CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12 I believe I can finally rid myself of all these other products and stick solely to this suite. All the new features are incredibly useful and time-saving. All the applications work well with one another, and I've pushed it as hard as I can with some huge files, and it hasn't had any problems at all. This truely is an incredible release... thanks Corel!!!

PS. If you don't believe me, download the trial from Corel's website and try it for yourself (www.corel.com)

Jim

46 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good bang for the buck..., June 30, 2004

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Paul Boehnke (Spokane, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: CorelDraw Graphics Suite 12 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

I am an amature photographer and painter. And I love using photoshop too. But I can't afford photoshop. Adobe makes great products but they are overpriced. This is why I got Corel Graphics Suite. It supports all the plug-in's for photoshop, does pretty much everything photoshop and illustrator can and all for a cheaper price. If you are just starting out with computer graphics this is a good alternative to Adobe. Or if you are a student with little or no money and need a legit image suite this is the way to go.

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars In response to objection about the PhotoPaint, July 8, 2004

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Geoffrey J. Swenson (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: CorelDraw Graphics Suite 12 Upgrade (CD-ROM)

I am upgrading from version 10, and version 10 already has a way to make your default units in Photopaint Pixels.

There is also one user that has reviewed this three times with a bad review. C'mon, now.

Just press Ctrl-J and change the default units to pixels. Simple.

One of the greatest things about CorelDraw is the active help you can get from expert users at http://www.egroups.com/community/cdug

If you had posted this question there, we would have shown you how to do this 3 years ago.