| CorelDraw 8 graphics, drawing and painting
program, has reduced interface complexity and improved support for
Internet and Web-page design.
With this version, Corel said it spent much of its development
time on how users access items in the menus and tool bars to get
tasks done.
"We came up with a lot of usability improvements so people can
focus on what they are doing, rather than looking through tool bars
for the task they want to do," said Joe Donnelly, product manager
for the CorelDraw module, in Ottawa.
CorelDraw's companion product, Photo-Paint, has been given a
major face lift so that it looks and behaves much like Draw. Both
have similar menus and common keystrokes so artists can work the
same in one as the other.
Photo-Paint 8 is a part of Draw that's comparable to Adobe
PhotoShop in terms of functionality, providing tools for
professional quality image editing, whereas Draw's primary strength
is in the creation of new content.
New features in CorelDraw 8 include a number of menu
configurations so several people can customize menus, interactive
preview tools to see how an image will look after an effect is
applied as well as 3-D text and graphics, and Corel Versions
version-control utility.
For Web editing, CorelDraw 8 comes with a WYSIWYG HTML editor, a
bitmap mapper, and an online HTML reference guide that removes
non-standard formatting and code. It also supports drag-and-drop
embedding of objects such as graphics, radio buttons, and Java
applets.
As has been tradition, Corel includes an enormous collection of
support utilities and content. This includes CorelScan, for scanning
in graphics; a script editor; and PhotoShop-compatible plug-ins that
work with Draw and Photo-Paint. Also included is 40,000 clip-art
images, 1,000 TrueType and Type 1 fonts, and 450 CorelDraw
templates. New to CorelDraw 8 are animated GIFs, Web background
images, and tiling textures. |
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