Features Include:

• New projected drawing modes: The new drawing profiles let users project objects onto drawing planes and create the illusion of a three-dimensional graphic.
  
• Enhanced gravity snapping: Gravity snapping lets users snap the pointer to various points in objects, making it easy to create and position objects accurately.
  
• Enhanced dynamic guides: Dynamic guides are temporary guidelines users can pull from the following snap points in objects — center, node, quadrant, and text baseline.
  
• New B-Spline tool: The B-Spline tool lets users draw curved lines by setting control points that shape the curve without breaking it into segments.
  
• New dimension lines: Corel DESIGNER introduces three new types of dimension lines — segment, radial, and diameter dimension lines.
  
• New enhanced line styles: Enhanced line styles are especially useful for illustrating stitch patterns and drawing parallel lines.
  
• New hatch fills: Hatch fills consist of hatch patterns that are composed of vector-based lines and are used for representing different types of materials in a drawing.
  
• New Fillet/Chamfer/Scallop: Technical illustrators can now use scallops, fillets, and chamfers to shape objects.
  
• Enhanced transformations docker: The improved Transformations docker lets users project and unproject objects with precision.
  
• Enhanced Eyedropper tool: The enhanced Eyedropper tool lets users copy color, object properties, effects, and transformations from one object to another.
  
• New Workspace Selector: To help users quickly improve productivity, Corel DESIGNER offers additional workspaces.
  New Dynamic language switching: Users can install multiple language packs to enable use of the application in more than one language.
  
• Enhanced Unicode support: Exchange files effortlessly by ensuring that text is displayed correctly, regardless of the language or operating system in which the file was created.
  
• New double-byte formatting: Users can now apply Asian fonts to Asian and Latin text by using the property bar.
  
• New Insert formatting codes docker: The new Insert formatting codes docker lets users easily insert special characters and spaces, such as em dashes, en dashes, and nonbreaking spaces.
  
• New Hotspotting — Object Data Manager: Users can manage a complex project by assigning data to its objects.
  
• New Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) support: Import and export to files of CGM Version 4 profiles, such as ACGM (ActiveCGM), WebCGM, and GREX (ATA GREXCHANGE).
  
• Enhanced Corel DESIGNER (DSF): Support for files saved in Corel DESIGNER 9 and earlier versions has been improved. Hatch fills and enhanced line styles are now preserved.
  
• New Export for Office: This new feature lets users optimize drawings for exporting to Microsoft Office or WordPerfect Office.
  
• New AutoCAD Data Interchange Format (DXF) and AutoCAD Drawing Database (DWG): AutoCAD 2004 files are supported.
  
• Enhanced Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG): Users can now choose a variety of new options when exporting a drawing to the SVG file format.
  
• Enhanced Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF): Users can now publish a drawing to a PDF file that is compatible with Adobe Acrobat 6.0.
  
• Enhanced Adobe Photoshop (PSD): Support for duotone images and layer preservation have been added.
  
• New Corel PHOTO-PAINT 12: Take advantage of this complete image-editing application that lets users retouch and enhance photos as well as create original graphics.
  
• New CorelCAPTURE 12: This application lets users capture onscreen images.
  

Minimum System Requirements:

Windows

• Windows 2000 or Windows XP (Home, Professional, or Tablet PC Edition) with latest service packs
  
• Pentium III, 600 MHz or greater
  
• 256 MB of RAM (512 MB RAM recommended)
  
• 1024 × 768 screen resolution (768 × 1024 on a Tablet PC)
• CD-ROM drive
  
• 700 MB of hard disk space to install all three language packs with all content
  
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6

Educational License:

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