Corel Corel Draw Graphics Suite - X4 Reviewer's Guide

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Reviewer’s Guide

Contents

1 | Introducing CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 ....................1

2 | Customer Profiles.............................................................3

Design professionals ............................................................................................ 3

Occasional graphics users .................................................................................... 3

3 | What’s Included with CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4? ..5

Applications ......................................................................................................... 5

Supporting applications ...................................................................................... 5

Content................................................................................................................. 6

Documentation .................................................................................................... 6

Training................................................................................................................. 6

Minimum system requirements .......................................................................... 6

4 | Top New and Enhanced Features ....................................7

Streamline your workflow .................................................................................. 7

Find your design assets ........................................................................................ 9

Accelerate layout and text editing ................................................................... 11

Get inspired and gain knowledge .................................................................... 14

Discover advanced image-editing features ...................................................... 16

5 | Summary of New and Enhanced Features ...................19

6 | Design Gallery ................................................................23

7 | About Corel ....................................................................28

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Introducing CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X4

CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X4 is an affordable and comprehensive suite of
intuitive page-layout, illustration, photo-editing, and bitmap-to-vector tracing
applications. The trusted choice of professional and aspiring designers, the suite
includes new tools that fuel the creative process, simplify project management,
and optimize the graphic design workflow.

Users of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 can confidently tackle a wide variety of
projects — from logos and Web graphics to multipage brochures and eye­catching signs. With its text and page-layout enhancements, market-leading file
format compatibility, and high-quality content, this powerful suite is the
ultimate design partner to help users turn inspiration into stunning results.

For increased design flexibility, CorelDRAW® X4 now lets users create
independent layers for each page of a document. The new CorelDRAW®
ConceptShare™ docker is a valuable online collaboration tool, and the ability to
import PDF files with comments makes it easier than ever to work with
colleagues and clients. In addition to providing its redesigned workspace icons,
menus, and controls, CorelDRAW X4 includes an enhanced Print Merge wizard, a
new Table tool for drawing and editing tables, and integration with
WhatTheFont™ — the font identification service from MyFonts.com.

With Corel PHOTO-PAINT® X4, the workspace icons, menus, and controls have
also been redesigned and many image-adjustment features now have an
integrated histogram, which provides visual feedback in real time. Users can
now work with raw camera files more easily, and new thumbnail previews make
it easier to find files. In addition, Corel® PowerTRACE™ X4 has been enhanced
to give users more control over bitmap-to-vector conversion.

Rounding out the suite, Corel CAPTURE™ X4 is a screen-capture utility that lets
users copy images of their computer screens in a single click. With the new
Welcome screen, users have a centralized location to start new projects, access
recently used documents, get instructional information, and view inspiring
designs from other CorelDRAW Graphics Suite users around the world. Plus, the
CorelDRAW® Handbook — Insights from the Experts provides artwork, helpful
advice, and design techniques from professional designers.

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Customer Profiles

Design professionals

Design professionals in advertising and printing industries spend much of their
time creating and editing graphics, working with text, and retouching photos.
With time-saving features such as interactive layout tables, live text formatting,
and independent page layers, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 gives them
innovative design tools that optimize their workflow.

Other design professionals focus primarily on sign making, screen printing, and
engraving. These users frequently repurpose and combine such content as
graphic designs, scanned logos, clipart images, and fonts. With powerful image­editing capabilities, specialized fonts, tracing software that turns bitmaps into
editable vector graphics, and high-quality content, CorelDRAW Graphics
Suite X4 gives them a comprehensive, versatile, and affordable solution.

Creative professionals focus primarily on graphic design for print and for the
Web. In addition to its intuitive page-layout and design tools, CorelDRAW
Graphics Suite X4 gives them market-leading compatibility with commonly used
file formats.

Occasional graphics users

For entrepreneurs and small to medium-size businesses interested in creating
marketing materials in-house, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 provides powerful
text and page-layout tools that ensure professional-looking results. Self-taught
in graphic design, these occasional users can confidently turn to CorelDRAW
Graphics Suite X4 to modify existing designs, to retouch photos, and to create
ads, flyers, and other marketing collateral.

Business users in medium-size to large enterprises value the ability to work with
more than 100 file formats as well as create professional, graphically rich
projects — from sales presentations to Web graphics.

Hobbyists do not use graphic design software to earn a living, but they do use it
occasionally to create projects — such as newsletters, calendars, banners, and
photo layouts — for personal or community use. With an extensive collection of
learning tools, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 makes it easy to create impressive
results without professional training.

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What’s Included with CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X4?

Applications

• CorelDRAW® X4: CorelDRAW X4 is an intuitive vector-illustration and
page-layout application that meets the demands of today’s busy design
professionals and occasional graphics users. It delivers results fast, whether
users are creating a company logo or working toward demanding
production schedules.

• Corel PHOTO-PAINT® X4: Corel PHOTO-PAINT X4 is a professional
image-editing application that lets users quickly and easily retouch and
enhance photos. It is specifically designed for use in a graphics workflow.

• Corel® PowerTRACE™ X4: Professional designers often receive
poor-quality bitmap images from clients and face the challenge of turning
these bitmaps into high-quality vector images for business cards, brochures,
signs, or other promotional items. Corel PowerTRACE X4 solves this problem
by letting users quickly and accurately convert bitmaps into editable vector
graphics.

• Corel CAPTURE™ X4: Corel CAPTURE X4 is a one-click screen-capture utility
that lets users capture images from their computer screens.

Supporting applications

• Barcode wizard: The Barcode wizard lets users generate bar codes in a
wide range of industry-standard formats.

• Service Bureau Profiler: The Service Bureau Profiler helps users prepare
their work for professional output.

• Duplexing wizard: The Duplexing wizard helps users optimize their work
for printing two-sided documents.

• Bitstream® Font Navigator®: The Bitstream Font Navigator is an award­winning font manager for the Windows® operating system. It lets users
manage, find, install, and preview fonts.

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Content

• A collection of more than 10,000 high-quality clipart and digital images
includes 4,000 new images, all of which were individually selected to meet
the needs of design professionals and occasional graphics users

• New! 1,000 professional high-resolution digital photos

• 1,000 OpenType® fonts, including 75 Windows Glyph List 4 (WGL4) fonts and
10 single-line engraving fonts

• 80 professionally designed templates

Documentation

• User guide

• CorelDRAW® Handbook — Insights from the Experts

• Digital content guide

• Quick-reference card

•Help files

Training

• 2 hours of training videos on DVD

Minimum system requirements

• Windows XP (with Service Pack 2 or later), or Windows Vista® (32-bit or 64­bit editions)

• 512 MB of RAM, 275 MB of hard disk space

• Pentium® III, 800MHz processor or AMD Athlon™ XP

• 1,024 × 768 or better monitor resolution

• DVD drive

• Mouse or tablet

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Top New and Enhanced Features

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 is an affordable and comprehensive suite that
combines intuitive page-layout, illustration, photo-editing, and bitmap-to-vector
tracing applications. The trusted choice of professional and aspiring designers,
the suite includes new tools that fuel the creative process, simplify project
management, and optimize the graphic design workflow.

Streamline your workflow

With its redesigned and modernized user interfaces, new collaboration tools,
and enhanced features, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 can help users streamline
their workflow without compromising creativity or flexibility.

New! Modernized user interface (UI): For CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4,

the user interface has been redesigned. New icons, menus, and controls give the
applications a fresh appearance and provide a more intuitive working
environment.

The redesigned CorelDRAW X4 user interface

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