Over time, additional components were developed or acquired and bundled with CorelDraw. The list of bundled packages usually changes somewhat from one release to the next, though there are several mainstays that have remained in the package for many releases now, including PowerTrace (a bitmap to vector graphic converter), Photo-Paint (a bitmap graphic editor), and Capture (a screen capture utility).
Below is a list of the applications and utilities included in the latest version of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite:
Applications
- CorelDRAW X7, a vector-illustration and page-layout application
- Corel PHOTO-PAINT X7, an image-editing application
- Corel PowerTRACE X7, a utility that is embedded in CorelDRAW and allows you to trace bitmap images and convert them to editable vector graphics
- Corel CONNECT X7, a full-screen browser that allows you to browse and search for content that is available on the Content Exchange or on the websites of online content providers
- Corel Website Creator, an application that helps you create websites and design web pages (Note: To use the application, you need to have a CorelDRAW Standard Membership.)
- Corel CAPTURE, a utility that allows you to capture images from your computer screen
Supporting applications
- Barcode Wizard, a wizard that lets you generate bar codes
- Duplexing Wizard, a wizard that helps you optimize your work for printing two-sided documents
- Bitstream Font Navigator, a font manager that helps you manage fonts
- PhotoZoom Pro 3, a plug-in that lets registered users enlarge digital images and export them from Corel PHOTO-PAINT
- WhatTheFont, an online font identification service that is integrated with CorelDRAW
- ConceptShare, an online collaboration tool that lets you share your work with others
CDR file format[edit]
Hex dump of the header of a CDR file, written with version 3
| |
| Filename extension | .cdr[29] |
|---|---|
| Developed by | Corel Corporation |
| Latest release | X6 (i.e. 16) |
| Type of format | Vector graphics, raster graphics |
| Open format? | no |
In its first versions, the CDR file format was a completely proprietary file formatprimarily used for vector graphic drawings and developed by Corel Corporation, recognizeable by the first two bytes of the file being "WL". Starting with Corel Draw 3, the file format changed to a Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF) envelope, recognizeable by the first four bytes of the file being "RIFF", and a "CDR*vrsn" in bytes 9 to 15, with the asterisk "*" being in early versions just a blank, and beginning with Corel Draw 4, the version number of the writing program in hexadecimal ("4" meaning version 4, "D" meaning version 14). The actual data chunk of the RIFF remains a Corel proprietary format.
Other CorelDraw file formats include CorelDraw Compressed (CDX), CorelDraw Template (CDT)[32] and Corel Presentation Exchange (CMX).[33]
In December 2006 the sK1 open source project team started to reverse-engineer the CDR format.[34] The results and the first working snapshot of the CDR importer were presented at the Libre Graphics Meeting 2007 conference taking place in May 2007 in Montreal (Canada).[35] Later on the team parsed the structure of other Corel formats with the help of the open source CDR Explorer.[36] As of 2008, the sK1 project claims to have the best import support for CorelDraw file formats among open source software programs. The sK1 project developed also the UniConvertor, a command line open source tool which supports conversion from CorelDraw ver.7-X4 formats (CDR/CDT/CCX/CDRX/CMX) to other formats. UniConvertor is also used in Inkscape and Scribus open source projects as an external tool for CorelDraw files importing.[37][38][39]
In 2007, Microsoft blocked CDR file format in Microsoft Office 2003 with the release of Service Pack 3 for Office 2003.[40][41]Microsoft later apologized for inaccurately blaming the CDR file format and other formats for security problems in Microsoft Office and released some tools for solving this problem.[42]
In 2012 the joint LibreOffice/re-lab team implemented libcdr, a library for reading CDR files from v1 to the currently latest X6 version and CMX files.[43] The library has extensive support for shapes and their properties, including support for color management and spot colors, and has a basic support for text.[44] The library provides a built-in converter to SVG, and a converter to OpenDocument is provided by writerperfect package. The libcdr library is expected to be used in LibreOffice 3.6,[45] and thanks to public API it can be freely used by other applications.
- Microsoft® Windows® 7, Windows Vista®, Windows® XP, with latest service packs installed (32-bit or 64-bit editions)
- Intel® Pentium® 4, AMD Athlon™ 64 or AMD Opteron™
- 512 MB RAM (1 GB recommended)
- 750 MB hard disk space (1 GB for typical installation without content). Up to 6GB needed to install extra content
- Mouse or tablet
- 1024 x 768 screen resolution (768 x 1024 on a Tablet PC)
- DVD drive
- Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7 or higher
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