Corel Corel Draw Graphics Suite - X6 Reviewer's Guide

Contents

1 | Introducing CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 ........................................................ 2

2 | Customer profiles............................................................................................... 4

Graphics professionals .................................................................................................................... 4

Occasional graphics users ...............................................................................................................4

3 | What’s included?................................................................................................ 6

4 | Top new and enhanced features........................................................................ 8

Work faster and more efficiently......................................................................................................8

Create layouts with ease............................................................................................................... 12

Design with style and creativity ....................................................................................................15

5 | CorelDRAW Graphics Suite user favorites ........................................................ 20

6 | Summary of new and enhanced features ........................................................ 24

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Introducing CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X6

CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X6 is a trusted and comprehensive solution for designing visual communications for any medium. Whether you’re an experienced or an aspiring designer, its intuitive workflow and content-rich environment will help you to efficiently express your creativity. You can start smoothly, learn quickly, and create with confidence.

Work faster and more efficiently

Developed natively for 64-bit processors, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 continues to support 32-bit processors. The suite provides robust vector illustration, page layout, photo editing, tracing, web graphics, and web site creation tools that help you work faster and more

efficiently. The refined Corel workflow makes it easier to acquire content and organize your projects. It’s also your entry point to a huge library of customizable content, which will help you save time bringing your concepts to life on any screen.

CONNECT™ X6

Create layouts with ease

With CorelDRAW X6, you’ll create layouts with ease thanks to robust vector illustration tools, improved Master Layer behaviors, and new

support for advanced OpenType

, which will help you produce elegant typography. Plus, enhanced complex script support makes it easier to work with foreign language text, so you can create layouts that resonate and engage your audience — no matter where they reside.

You can now instantly add page numbering in various formats and lettering styles, and the new temporary Alignment Guides will save you time when positioning objects on the page. In addition, the new Insert Placeholder Text command and interactive frame functionality make it faster and easier to create mockups of your design ideas, which is especially useful for providing clients with a variety of choices.

Design with style and creativity

With Corel of templates and Site Styles

Website Creator™ X6 and its dozens

, you can easily design, build, and maintain a web presence without having to learn how to code. In addition,

CorelDRAW

X6 provides four new shaping tools — Smear, Twirl, Attract, and Repel — that extend your creative possibilities when refining objects, and the redesigned Object Properties docker will save you time by dynamically revealing only available formatting options for the currently selected object.

PHOTO-PAINT™ X6 introduces the Smart

Corel

™

Carver

, a new tool that makes quick work of resizing photos or removing unwanted areas. In addition, the new Create Clip Mask and Pass Through Merge Mode options lets you apply effects or lenses to groups of objects without modifying the individual objects within the group.

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 also provides many features that help you design with style and creativity. An overhauled styles engine, new Object Styles docker, new Color Styles functionality, and the introduction of color harmonies all serve to let you focus on creating expressive, captivating designs.

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 also boasts marketing-leading file format compatibility with enhanced support for Adobe

Adobe Microsoft

Photoshop®, Adobe® Acrobat®, and

Publisher, so you can assuredly

Illustrator®,

exchange files with clients and colleagues. What’s more, an updated and visually stunning Guidebook is included to enrich the experience of new and veteran users alike.

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Customer profiles

Graphics professionals

Graphics 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 X6 provides innovative design tools that optimize their workflow.

graphics professionals focus primarily

Other 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 X6 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 X6 delivers market-leading compatibility with commonly used file formats. The suite also provides several features developed specifically for creating web graphics, such as the new Pixels view, support for hex color values, and more.

Occasional graphics users

For entrepreneurs and small to medium-size businesses interested in creating marketing and communications materials in-house, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 provides powerful text and page-layout tools that ensure professionallooking results. Self-taught in graphic design,

occasional users can confidently turn to

these CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 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. They also spend considerable time working with existing designs and retouching photos to use in their marketing and communications materials.

Hobbyists use graphic design software

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 X6 makes it easy to create impressive results without needing intensive training in graphics software.

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What’s included?

Applications

• CorelDRAW

illustration and page-layout application meets the demands of today’s busy graphics professionals and graphics non-professionals.

Corel® PHOTO-PAINT™ X6: This professional

•

image-editing application lets you quickly and easily retouch and enhance photos.

Corel® PowerTRACE™ X6: This utility lets you

•

quickly and accurately convert bitmaps into editable vector graphics.

•

Corel® Website Creator™ X61: This

application offers a fast and easy way to design, build, and manage websites.

Corel CAPTURE™ X6: This one-click screen-

•

capture utility lets you capture images from your computer screen.

•

Corel® CONNECT™ X6:

lets you peruse the suite’s digital content and search your computer or local network to quickly find the perfect complement for a design. Fully integrated, it is also available as a docker in both CorelDRAW and Corel PHOTO-PAINT.

• PhotoZoom Pro 2: This plug-in lets you

enlarge digital images and export them from Corel PHOTO-PAINT X6.

X6: This intuitive vector-

This full-screen browser

Content

• 10,000 high-quality clipart and images

• 1,000 all new professional, high-resolution digital photos

•1,000 OpenType fonts, such as Helvetica

fonts, including premium

• 2,000 vehicle templates

• 350 professionally designed templates

• 800 frames and patterns

Documentation

• An updated, visually rich Guidebook introduces each application’s workspace and includes tips and techniques for users of all skill levels, in-depth tutorials, and insights from various industry experts

• Quick-reference card

•Help files

Training

• More than 2 hours of training videos on DVD,

™

and on Corel’s YouTube

channel

Minimum system requirements

Supporting applications

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

•

Duplexing wizard: This wizard helps you

optimize your work for printing two-sided documents.

•

Bitstream® Font Navigator®: This award-

winning font manager for the Windows operating system helps you manage, find, install, and preview fonts.

1. Corel.com account required to download the application

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•Windows® 7 (32-bit or 64-bit editions), Windows

(32-bit or 64-bit editions), or Windows® XP

Vista (32-bit), all with latest service packs installed

•Intel® Pentium® 4, AMD Athlon™ 64 or AMD Opteron

™

•1 GB of RAM

• 1 GB of hard disk space for installation without content

• 1024 × 768 or higher monitor resolution (768 × 1024 on a Tablet PC)

• DVD drive for installation by disc

• Mouse or tablet

•Microsoft

Internet Explorer® 7 or higher

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