Corel Corel Draw Premium Suite - X5 Reviewer's Guide
Contents
1 | Introducing CorelDRAW Premium Suite X5........................................................ 2
2 | Customer profiles............................................................................................... 4
Graphics professionals ................................................................................................................... 4
Graphics non-professionals............................................................................................................4
3 | What’s included?................................................................................................ 6
4 | Top new and enhanced features...................................................................... 10
Connect to your content............................................................................................................... 10
Get going quickly.........................................................................................................................12
Create with confidence ................................................................................................................13
Use color with certainty ............................................................................................................... 17
Output with ease......................................................................................................................... 20
5 | Multimedia publishing and file compression................................................... 22
Corel Website Creator X5.............................................................................................................22
Corel VideoStudio Pro X3............................................................................................................. 23
SWiSH Max3................................................................................................................................ 25
WinZip 14.5 Pro........................................................................................................................... 27
6 | Summary of new and enhanced features ........................................................ 30
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Created by Genaro Antonio González Ramírez
Introducing CorelDRAW® Premium Suite X5
CorelDRAW® Premium Suite X5 combines the
trusted illustration and design power of
®
CorelDRAW
Graphics Suite with exciting new
output possibilities. Its intuitive and content-rich
environment fits seamlessly into your workflow to
help you express your creative ideas compellingly.
You can get started immediately, learn as you go,
and design with confidence for any medium.
Connect to your content
With an abundance of new content chosen to
inspire you and provide a springboard for your
own designs, CorelDRAW Premium Suite X5
makes sure you can easily connect to your
content. The new Corel
®
CONNECT™ is a
full-screen browser that synchronizes with both
®
CorelDRAW
and Corel® PHOTO-PAINT™ to
provide quick access to content on a computer,
network, disc, or select online sources. In
addition, industry-leading support for more than
100 commonly used file formats ensures that you
can collaborate and exchange files with clients
and colleagues.
Get going quickly
It’s never been easier to get started with
CorelDRAW Premium Suite X5, regardless of your
experience level. The stunning new guidebook
will inspire you to do more than you thought
possible. It provides techniques and tips for users
of all skill levels and provides a unique
opportunity to learn from professional designers
who use the suite in such industries as fashion
and jewelry design, book illustration, vehicle
wrapping, and product packaging.
What’s more, Corel
create high-quality vector images from bitmaps
and produces the best trace results yet. In
addition, more than 2 hours of video tutorials are
included to help you learn how to get more out
of the suite.
®
PowerTRACE® X5 lets you
Create with confidence
CorelDRAW has an undeniable 20-year legacy in
design innovation and has long been trusted by
professional and aspiring designers alike. With
CorelDRAW Premium Suite X5, the introduction
of significant new and enhanced features help
you create with confidence.
A collection of new and enhanced drawing tools
includes a B-Spline tool, scalable arrowheads,
enhanced Connector and Dimension tools, and
the new Segment Dimension tool. In addition,
the Mesh Fill tool has been significantly improved
to help you design multi-colored filled objects
with more fluid color transitions.
Use color with certainty
This version of the suite represents a complete
change in approach to color management,
assuring you accurate color representation
regardless of your level of expertise. Whether
you’re importing a client’s mock-up, working
with previous designs, or sending a project to a
print shop or manufacturing facility, you can be
certain that your colors are true.
Output with ease
With its industry-leading file format compatibility,
CorelDRAW Premium Suite X5 provides the
flexibility today’s designers need for outputting
their work. The same design may be needed for
web banners, printed ads or brochures, and
T-shirts, billboards, or digital signs.
Corel Website Creator X5 includes dozens of
templates and SiteStyles
you create a web presence that stands out.
With Corel
®
VideoStudio® Pro X3, you can create
professional-quality video productions, and you
can easily incorporate your CorelDRAW designs
in any video clip. In addition, the inclusion of
SWiSH Max3 helps you create web graphics and
animations easier than ever.
®
that make it easy for
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Created by
(Aleksey Oglushevich)
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 Premium Suite X5 provides
innovative design tools that optimize their
workflow. This comprehensive collection now
includes tools for video editing and DVD
production, Flash
design, and file compression.
Other
graphics 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 Premium Suite X5 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 Premium Suite X5 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.
®
animation authoring, website
Graphics non-professionals
For entrepreneurs and small to medium-size
businesses interested in creating marketing
materials in-house, CorelDRAW Premium Suite X5
provides powerful text and page-layout tools that
ensure professional-looking results. Self-taught in
graphic design, these
confidently turn to CorelDRAW Premium Suite X5
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 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 Premium Suite X5 makes it easy to
create impressive results without professional
training.
occasional users can
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Created by (Po-Hua Lin)
What’s included?
CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X5
• CorelDRAW
illustration and page-layout application meets
the demands of today’s busy graphics
professionals and graphics non-professionals.
•
Corel® PHOTO-PAINT™ X5: This professional
image-editing application lets you quickly and
easily retouch and enhance photos.
•
Corel® PowerTRACE® X5: This utility lets you
quickly and accurately convert bitmaps into
editable vector graphics.
•
Corel CAPTURE™ X5: This one-click screen-
capture utility lets you capture images from
your computer screen.
®
X5: This intuitive vector-
®
Corel
Guide for updates at any time from within
VideoStudio Pro X3.
SWiSH Max3
• SWiSH Max3: This complete Flash animation
authoring application lets you create stunning
animations that include text, images, graphics,
video, and sound.
WinZip® 14.5 Pro
• WinZip
zip utility for file compression, encryption,
sharing, and data backup.
®
14.5 Pro: The world’s most popular
•
Corel® CONNECT™: This full-screen browser
lets you peruse the suite’s digital content and
search your computer, local network, or select
online sources 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.
Corel® Website Creator™ X5
• Corel
®
Website Creator™ X5: This new
application offers the fastest and easiest way to
build, manage, and promote websites.
Corel® VideoStudio® Pro X3
• Corel
•
®
VideoStudio® Pro X3: This end-to-end
video production package gives you the power,
speed, and creativity to produce professionalquality video.
Corel DVD MovieFactory™ 7 SE:
This
all-in-one software solution lets you create and
burn professional-quality DVD, AVCHD
Blu-ray
™
discs from photos, video, and
™
, and
high-definition (HD) video. This application is
available as a separate downloadable update
when you first launch VideoStudio Pro X3.
Alternatively, you can manually check the
Supporting applications
• Barcode wizard: The Barcode wizard lets you
generate bar codes in a wide range of industrystandard formats.
•
Duplexing wizard: The Duplexing wizard
helps you optimize your work for printing twosided documents.
•
Bitstream® Font Navigator®: The Bitstream
Font Navigator is an award-winning font
manager for the Windows
®
operating system.
It lets you manage, find, install, and preview
fonts.
•
PhotoZoom Pro: This plug-in lets you enlarge
digital images and export them from
Corel PHOTO-PAINT X5.
•
DV-to-DVD Wizard: The DV-to-DVD Wizard
lets you capture video from a DV camcorder,
add a theme template to it, and then burn it
directly to DVD.
Content
• New! More than 2,000 vehicle templates, half
of which are new
•
New! More than 350 professionally designed
templates for CorelDRAW X5
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• More than 1,000 additional OpenType® fonts,
including 75 Windows Glyph List 4 (WGL4)
fonts
• A collection of more than 10,000 high-quality
clipart and digital images
• More than 350 multimedia effects, including a
variety of dynamic animated effects from
®
NewBlue
FX
• Dozens of web templates and styles
• 30 video templates from RevoStock
®
Documentation
• New! A completely redesigned, visually rich
Guidebook introduces the CorelDRAW and
Corel PHOTO-PAINT workspaces. The
Guidebook is printed in full color and also
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
Minimum system requirements
•Microsoft® Windows® 7, Windows Vista®, or
Windows
(32-bit or 64-bit editions)
•Intel
Opteron
Dual-Core 2.0 GHz or higher required for video
editing)
• 1 GB RAM (2 GB or higher recommended)
• 128 MB VGA VRAM or higher (256 MB or
higher recommended)
• 4.5 GB hard disk space to install all applications
(9 GB needed to install extra content)
• 32-bit ODBC drivers for external database
connectivity (for website creation)
• 1024 × 768 or better monitor resolution
(768 × 1024 on a Tablet PC)
• DVD drive
• Recordable DVD drive required to create DVDs
• Recordable Blu-ray drive required to create
Blu-ray discs
• Windows-compatible sound card
®
XP, with latest service packs installed
®
Pentium® 4, AMD Athlon™ 64 or AMD
™
(Intel® Core™ Duo 1.83 GHz, AMD
• New! More than 2 hours of CorelDRAW and
Corel PHOTO-PAINT training videos on DVD
• Mouse or tablet
• Internet connection for online features and
product registration
•Microsoft
®
Internet Explorer® 7 or higher
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