Thread: Corel Draw Graphics Suite X4

A latest version of the vector based drawing program comes with a clean and redesigned interface. The latest version of Corel's flagship graphics suite also includes new features and claimed"seamless compatibility"with arch rival Adobe Creative Suite 3 and its component products.

The suite is now certified for Windows Vista,and has widened its file-format support to include Microsoft's new Open XML,Microsoft Office Publisher,and Autocad's DXF and DWG.

There's tight integration with an online tool called ConceptShare that allows dispersed users to work on ideas and designs in real time. Other new features include an interactive table tool, independent page layers, live text formatting that allows you to seethe effect of changes,and an online service that identifies a bitmapped font for easy matching.



Modules in the X4 suite include:
Corel Draw for vector graphics and page layout;the Photo-Paint as image editor; PowerTrace, which converts bitmaps into vector graphics, and a screen-capture utility. There are also more than 10,000 clip-art images and photographs.
Another widely used application from the suite is the Photo-Paint.This bitmap-editing application has some new features, including supportfor the RAW camera format and interactive histograms for previewing image adjustments. On the desktop publishing front, X4 now lets you create and edit independent layers on each page of multipage documents. It also lets you implement master layers throughout a publication for repeating elements.

Corel DRAW X4 provides over 1,000 OpenTypefonts. Overall this upgrade may benefit users of Corel Draw but people looking up to use Photo-Paint will find a wide gap that Corel has missed to fulfill even after a decade. Considering once Photo-Paint was a serious alternative to Adobe Photos hop, in the latest avatar it does not even come close. Corel DRAW Graphics Suite X4 is available for Rs. 1 6,400 forthe full version, Rs.8,900 forthe upgrade and Rs.6,200 for the Student and Teacher Edition.