CorelDRAW occurs as vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Corel Corporation of Ottawa, Canada.

Supported platforms
CorelDRAW was originally developed for Microsoft Windows however the Macintosh version was released a few years late.

CorelDRAW inherit its have sustaining Microsoft's release of Windows 3.1. Although a Sixteen-bit application, the inclusion of TrueType in Windows 3.Single transformed CorelDRAW into the good illustration program capable of quality typography.

At in one case, the Linux version of CorelDRAW was available, however it was later discontinued. A latest version Xii is available for Windows sole.

Development history
Inside 1984, Dr. Michael Cowpland founded Corel and hired programmer Michel Boullion and Pat Beirne to develop a vector-depending illustration program (1987 run, 1989 release) to bundle sustaining the Intel-depending desktop publishing (DTP) systems Corel was selling. A program was swell received & Corel shortly focused in software system alone.

Many innovations to vector-depending illustration originated with CorelDRAW: the node-edit convienence that operates otherwise in different objects, primed text-to-path, stroke-prior to-fill, quickly fill/stroke color choice palettes, perspective projections & complex gradient fills. Corel also pioneered the inclusion of a big range of fonts & clip-art sustaining a pack.

About a equivalent instance, when extra components were developed & acquired (Corel Trace, Corel Texture, Corel Photo-Paint, etc.) CorelDRAW was marketed as a graphics software suite.