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Corel DRAW is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Corel Corporation. It is also the name of the Corel graphics suite, which includes the bitmap-image editor Corel Photo-Paint as well as other graphics-related programs (see below). The latest version is marketed as Corel Draw Graphics Suite (internally, version 24), and was released for Windows and mac OS on March 8, 2022. It is designed to edit two-dimensional images such as logos and posters. Reduced-feature Standard and Essentials versions are also offered.
In 1987, Corel engineers Michel Bouillon and Pat Beirne undertook to develop a vector-based illustration program to bundle with their desktop publishing systems. That program, Corel Draw, was initially released in 1989. Corel Draw 1.x and 2.x ran under Windows 2.x and 3.0. Corel Draw 3.0 came into its own with Microsoft’s release of Windows 3.1. The inclusion of True Type in Windows 3.1 transformed Corel Draw into a serious illustration program capable of using system-installed outline fonts without requiring third-party software such as Adobe Type Manager; paired with a photo-editing program (Corel Photo-Paint), a font manager and several other pieces of software, it was also part of the first all-in-one graphics suite.
Corel DRAW was originally developed for Microsoft Windows 2.1, and versions existed for Windows 3.1x, CTOS and OS/2. With the release of Corel Linux, Corel DRAW 9 was released with package support for Debian and Red Hat-based Linux. Version 11 was released for Mac OS X in 2001, but was then discontinued on both Linux and Mac. Corel DRAW was available only for Windows until the 2019 version became the first to support mac OS.
As of 2021, Corel DRAW Graphics Suite supports Windows 10, Windows 11, and mac OS, including a new release for Apple silicon. A related web app and iPad app offers collaboration and markup online.
With version 6, Corel introduced task automation using a proprietary scripting language, Corel SCRIPT. Support for VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) macros was added in version 9, and Corel SCRIPT was eventually deprecated. Support for VSTA (Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications) has been integrated in Windows versions since X5, and currently requires Visual Studio 2017. Version 2019 added JavaScript as an option for cross-platform scripting with Mac OS support; however, the built-in IDE does not support it as of 2020.