Easy to learn and use

Start smoothly and learn quickly with built-in learning tools, valuable video tutorials, design insights from experts and a visually rich, online guidebook. (A hard cover, full-colour, printed guidebook is included with the box version.)

High-value digital content

Enrich your designs with over 1000 professional fonts, including Helvetica, Garamond and Frutiger fonts for the first time ever. Plus, take advantage of high-value digital content, such as premium clipart, royalty-free photos and vehicle templates.

Precise control and easy sharing

Output to a broad variety of media, from distinctive logos and signs, to striking marketing materials, Web graphics, billboards and car wraps. Export options let you compare file formats before export, so you can optimise your settings to achieve the highest file quality.

Market-leading file compatibility

Re-purpose and share your creations anywhere with market-leading file compatibility. Import and export files quickly and easily with dozens of supported file formats, including PDF, JPG, PNG, EPS, AI, TIFF, PSD and DOCX.

Create with confidence

When it comes to graphic design, confidence in your software is paramount. CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5 provides new and enhanced graphic design tools to help you achieve the quality you need in the shortest amount of time. With a legacy in design innovation, this trusted graphics suite offers all the support you need to create with confidence.

Enhanced! Drawing Tools

Draw and design intuitively with enhanced artistic media and drawing tools that respond to the pressure, tilt and bearing of your pen on drawing tablet.

Enhanced! Corel® PHOTO-PAINT™: Powerful Photo Editing

Experiment with exciting new photo effects, such as Vibrance, Greyscale and Photo Filter. These filters are preserved when you import and export PSD files using the Adobe Photoshop CS 4 file format. Corel PHOTO-PAINT X5 also supports RAW format for over 300 types of cameras, giving you greater artistic control and flexibility.

New & Enhanced! Web Graphics and Animation

Create web graphics and animations more efficiently than ever. Optimised filters produce consistent, high-quality web formats with proper transparency, cropping and browser compatibility. Create your designs in CorelDRAW, then open in new SWiSH miniMax™ 2 to animate your images. Control motion, draw shapes, edit text and more. The new Pixels mode shows exactly how your content will display online. Plus, a new Export dialog box now lets you compare file formats before export, so you can optimise your settings to achieve the highest file quality.

Interactive Table Tool

Create and import tables to provide structured layouts for text and graphics.

CorelDRAW ConceptShare™

Get quality feedback on design projects without costly meetings! ConceptShare lets you quickly and easily collaborate online with colleagues and clients in a secure environment. It’s packed with tools that let you share, mark up and review designs with others, on your own time.

Live Text Formatting

Preview text formatting changes in real time before applying them to the document.

Smart Fill

Apply fills to any enclosed object area, such as the loops of a freehand line that crosses over itself.

Image Slicing

Slice an image into several smaller files for web page optimisation.

Output to any media

Today, you need the export flexibility to output designs to any media: web banners, websites, print ads, brochures, even multiple types of media, such as T-shirts, billboards and digital signs. CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5 provides extensive file support so you can send your work anywhere.

New! Completely Redesigned Colour Management Engine

Control colour consistency across different media and generate a distinct colour palette for each document. A new colour management engine introduces greater colour accuracy, plus support for new colour profiles from PANTONE®.

Enhanced! File Compatibility and PDF Support

Re-purpose and share your creations anywhere with support for more than 60 file formats, including PDF, JPG, PNG, EPS, AI, TIFF, PSD, DOCX and PPT. Password-protect your PDF files to control security and user access when they are viewed, edited and printed by third-parties.

New! Collect for Output

Gather fonts, colour profiles and other file information with this new output option that makes it easier to share your work with a print service provider.

Print Merge

Combine text from a data source with a drawing to quickly create personalised invitations, labels and other projects.

Work faster and more efficiently

Complete your tasks faster with powerful performance enhancements that maximise your computer’s power. Plus, enjoy more options for recording macros and automating time-consuming tasks.

New! Multi-core Support

Work faster with multi-core processing that maximises the power available in your computer to process your commands more quickly.

Enhanced! Optimised for Latest Windows® Platforms

Work with ease, whatever your PC operating system. This latest version is optimised for Windows® 7 and offers new touch-screen support, as well as support for Windows Vista® and Windows® XP. Take advantage of the touch technology of Windows 7 to pan, zoom and scroll with your fingertips for a more intuitive design experience.

New! Automation Technology

Enjoy more options for recording macros and automating time-consuming tasks. Microsoft’s Visual Studio for Applications (VSTA) technology lets you record macros and create third-party add-in solutions to enhance the existing functionality of CorelDRAW.

Recommended configuration

• 1GB RAM
• 6GB hard disk space to install extra content