Corel PHOTO-PAINT

Corel PHOTO-PAINT® is a complete image-editing application that lets you retouch and enhance photos. Whether you’re correcting red-eye or exposure problems, cutting out image areas, or creating and publishing images for the Web, Corel PHOTO-PAINT gives you powerful tools that are fast and easy to use.

Corel R.A.V.E.

Corel R.A.V.E.™ makes it easy to create a wide range of animated graphics — from animated logos and navigation controls to interactive animated graphics for the Web. The Corel R.A.V.E. application combines the familiar graphics capabilities and user interface of CorelDRAW with a powerful yet easy-to-use set of animation features.

What’s new in CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12

The following section outlines what’s new in CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12.

What’s new in CorelDRAW and Corel R.A.V.E.

CorelDRAW and Corel R.A.V.E. include new features and enhancements that will make your work easier.

Feature	Description
Enhanced support for SVG files	Allows you to choose a variety of new
	options when exporting a drawing to the
	SVG file format. You can also embed
	information in an SVG file or store
	information in externally linked files.

Export for Office (CorelDRAW only)

Lets you optimize drawings for export to Microsoft® Office or WordPerfect® Office

Unicode	Allows users to exchange files effortlessly,
	regardless of the language or operating
	system in which the file was created,
	ensuring that text displays correctly
Text encoding	Allows users to correct the display of text
	created in a language that differs from that
	of their operating system
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Feature	Description
Dynamic guides	Helps you precisely position, align, and draw
	objects relative to other objects using snap
	points in objects
Smart drawing tool	Lets you draw freehand strokes that are
	recognized and converted to basic shapes
	using the Smart drawing tool
Enhanced snapping	Allows you to snap an object to a number of
	snap points in a target object
Enhanced text alignment	Allows you to align text objects to other
	objects using the first text baseline, last text
	baseline, or the bounding box
Enhanced Eyedropper and Paintbucket	Allows you to copy color, object properties,
tools	effects, and transformations from one object
	to another
Virtual segment delete tool	Lets you delete portions of objects, called
	virtual line segments, that are between
	intersections
Improved file format compatibility	Gives you improved compatibility with
	many industry-standard file formats, such as
	Hewlett-Packard® Plotter (PLT),
	AutoCAD® Drawing Interchange Format
	(DXF), AutoCAD Drawing Database
	(DWG), Computer Graphics Metafile
	(CGM), Microsoft® Word Document
	(DOC), and many more
Improved symbols	The Symbol manager docker allows you to
	identify, create, and edit symbols easily. You
	can easily import and export symbols using
	Corel Symbol Libraries (CSL).

Enhanced sprites (Corel R.A.V.E. only)

The Symbol manager docker allows you to identify, create, and edit sprites easily.

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12: Welcome

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