Corel Corporation today announced its intent to reach out to Macromedia FreeHand® users with a limited-time special offer. Starting today, until September 1, 2005, registered FreeHand customers will be able to purchase CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite 12 for $99 US. Users are encouraged to download the free 30-day trial version from www.corel.com/trials to experience CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12 for themselves.
"Throughout the industry – in the media and in chat rooms – there is strong speculation that the future of FreeHand is in question and customers are looking at their options. Corel is committed to providing the professional graphics market with a powerful and compelling choice," said Nick Davies, Corel’s General Manager Graphics. "As the graphics market consolidates, we want to make it as easy as possible for customers to explore alternatives. By trying out our 30-day free trial version, FreeHand users will have the chance to experience CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12 and the unique benefits it offers. For many, our powerful suite could be the ideal tool for the way they work."
Complete with a 30-day money back guarantee, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12 offers FreeHand users the following benefits
- Multiple-page layout of up to 999 pages – Not only create multiple-page documents, but also easily incorporate different page sizes and orientations within the same document.
- Design faster with precision layout tools – Dramatically speed up the layout process with a highly accurate tool set that includes Dynamic Guides and powerful snapping.
- Interactive creative tools and vector lens effects – Enjoy an extensive number of renowned, interactive vector effects like Vector Extrude, Perspective, Twister distortions, and Zipper distortions that let you see the results as they are applied.
- Professional printing and imposition controls – Ensure the accuracy of designs right through to completion. Before printing, easily view preflight information associated with the file, or use the Imposition Layout tool to arrange the document. CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12 offers powerful printing controls, such as the ability to include printer marks and bleeds, mini and full screen print views, scaling, tiling controls, and separation options.
- Increased file compatibility – Extend compatibility with other applications with the ability to save up to 100 file formats including DWG, AI, and PDF.
- Easy and flexible color management system – With ICC color profile import and export options, users can choose to embed ICC color profiles in various formats, such as PDF, JPEG, TIFF, CDR, CPT and EPS.
- Complements the Web workflow – A collection of Web design tools enables users to quickly turn entire designs or partial objects into Web-ready elements. Create rollover effects, optimize photos for the Web, slice images, publish with styles, and create Web animations.
- Customizable work environment – Users can build an ideal environment by customizing all of the elements of the application, including the Toolbox, shortcut keys, toolbars and menus.
- Professional image editing at no extra cost – With advanced color balancing adjustments, layer support, masking, and photo transformations via 100 different effects, Corel PHOTO-PAINT® 12 is an ideal tool for professional digital imaging.
- Bitmap-to-vector conversion – With CorelTRACE™, users can trace bitmaps via multiple methods to get optimal vector conversion for their designs.
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12 supports FreeHand versions 7 and 8. FreeHand users of versions 9,10, and 11(MX) can save files as version 8 and import them into CorelDRAW via the FreeHand import filter. They can also transfer some FreeHand files into CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12 using the file import filter for PostScript Interpreted EPS files.
To learn more about this special offer for FreeHand users, please visit www.corel.com/fhoffer.
About CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12
Designed for Windows®, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12 delivers unrivaled value with three award-winning applications: CorelDRAW 12 for illustration, page-layout and vector drawing; Corel PHOTO-PAINT 12 for professional digital imaging; and Corel R.A.V.E.™ 3 for motion-graphics creation. The package also ships with CorelTRACE 12 and Corel CAPTURE™ 12.
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12 also gives customers access to exceptional software from other leading vendors and industry standard technologies including Bitstream® Font Navigator® 5.0, Microsoft® Visual Basic® for Applications 6.3, Kodak Digital Science™ color management system, and QuickTime® 6.0 Player. It includes 10,000 professional clipart images, 1,000 TrueType® and Type 1 fonts, and 1,000 photos and objects adding even more content to a designer’s toolbox.
To make it easy for FreeHand users to get up and running with CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12, the package also includes a free lynda.com training CD featuring more than two hours of video content.
About Corel
Corel Corporation provides innovative software solutions that help millions of value-conscious businesses and consumers in over 75 countries improve their productivity. The Company is renowned for its powerful software portfolio that combines innovative photo editing and graphics creation, vector-illustration, and technical-graphics applications along with office and personal productivity solutions. Corel’s flagship products include the CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite, the WordPerfect® Office Suite, the Corel Painter Natural-Media® painting and illustration software and the Paint Shop™ Family of digital photography and image-editing software.
Corel was acquired by San Francisco-based Vector Capital in August 2003, and since that time, has re-established growth for its flagship product lines and achieved multiple consecutive quarters of corporate profitability. Founded in 1985, Corel is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada. For more information, please www.corel.com.
This article was last modified on August 24, 2005
This article was first published on August 24, 2005
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