Corel WordPerfect Office X3 Now Available in Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese.New Localized Products Reflect Corel's Focus on Emerging Latin American Markets OTTAWA -- Corel Corporation (company) Corel Corporation - A software publisher best known for the CorelDraw application. Founded in June 1985 by Dr. Michael Cowpland, Corel Corporation was originally a systems integration company. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :CREL CREL Circular Regional Externa de Lisboa ; TSX TSX Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE before April, 2002) TSX Transfer from Stack Pointer to Index TSX True Space Extension :CRE CRE Commercial Real Estate CRE Corporate Real Estate CRE Commission for Racial Equality (Scotland) CRE CCD (Charge Coupled Device) and Readout Electronics CRE Camp Response Element ), the maker of CorelDRAW[R] Graphics Suite and Corel[R] Paint Shop Pro[R], today announced that new Spanish and Brazilian-Portuguese versions of Corel[R] WordPerfect[R] Office X3, the world's leading alternative to Microsoft[R] Office, are now available for purchase in relevant markets worldwide. Corel WordPerfect See WordPerfect Office and WordPerfect Corporation. Office X3 is the world's first and only office suite to natively import and export word processing word processing, use of a computer program or a dedicated hardware and software package to write, edit, format, and print a document. Text is most commonly entered using a keyboard similar to a typewriter's, although handwritten input (see pen-based computer) and documents, plus export spreadsheets and presentations, to PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. - one of the world's most widely deployed open formats. Other new and enhanced features include a fresh user interface, new online resources, enhanced multilingual character support, and the ability to easily eliminate hidden metadata. With the debut of these new localized products, Corel WordPerfect Office X3 is now available in five languages worldwide. "Nowhere is the need for low-cost, full-featured, and open standards-compatible software clearer than in Latin America-a key emerging market for Corel WordPerfect Office," said Richard Carriere, General Manager for Office Productivity at Corel. "The productivity market in Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. is defined by two competing pressures - a need for advanced, feature-rich applications, and a potentially conflicting demand for low costs. With the debut of Corel WordPerfect Office X3 in Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese Brazilian Portuguese (português brasileiro in Portuguese) is a group of dialects of Portuguese written and spoken by virtually all the 190 million inhabitants of Brazil and by a couple million Brazilian emigrants, mainly in the United States, United Kingdom, Portugal, , Corel is the only productivity vendor to reconcile these demands with a single, truly compelling product offering." "In the past year, hundreds of thousands of new customers across Latin America have been exposed to Corel WordPerfect Office thanks to its strong appeal to hardware makers, plus home and small business PC users all across the region," said Eduardo Serje, Regional Manager for Strategic Partnerships at Corel. "The unparalleled value and features of Corel WordPerfect Office X3, including enhanced compatibility with Microsoft Office Microsoft's primary desktop applications for Windows and Mac. Depending on the package, it includes some combination of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook along with various Internet and other utilities. and new PDF Import, make Corel WordPerfect Office X3 a versatile and easy to use choice in software for the end user and an outstanding revenue vehicle for hardware partners seeking to drive profits from bundled software (1) Applications that are included with new hardware. For example, a new PC often comes with several applications, many of which may be light versions or full versions with no limit on usage. Others may be only 60- or 90-day trial packages. See bundle. ." Features and Benefits Corel WordPerfect Office X3 - Standard Edition is made up of WordPerfect X3 for word processing, spreadsheet application Quattro Pro A Windows spreadsheet from Corel that provides advanced graphics and presentation capabilities, including goal seeking, 3D graphing and the ability to create multi-layered slide shows. It is optionally keystroke compatible with Lotus 1-2-3. [R] X3 and Presentations[TM] X3 for multimedia presentations. The Standard Edition also includes the new graphics and image editing program See image editor. Presentations Graphics X3, all at prices far below those of Microsoft Office. The suite offers a wide variety of new features and enhancements including: * New PDF Import and suite-wide Publish to PDF - WordPerfect X3 imports PDF documents, making it easy to reuse text and graphics stored in this format. Suite-wide PDF export capabilities let users turn documents, spreadsheets and presentations into PDF files without additional PDF software - making sharing content via the open PDF format simple and cost-effective. * Enhanced, exceptional compatibility with Microsoft Office - Improvements to compatibility in WordPerfect X3, Quattro Pro X3 and Presentations X3 make it is easy to open, edit and save Microsoft Word, Excel[R] and PowerPoint[R] files which along with PDF are among today's most widely exchanged file formats. Easily work with Microsoft Office files, or choose from the more than 150 other formats supported by Corel WordPerfect Office X3. * Updated user environment - Stylish and sleek buttons and toolbars give Corel WordPerfect Office X3 users a clean new user environment that will be familiar to existing WordPerfect Office customers and former Microsoft Office users alike. Customizable features such as the easy to use Workspace Manager let users select the work environment of their choice with the click of a button, choosing from a variety of WordPerfect and Microsoft Word modes. * Save without Metadata - An absolute must-have feature whenever confidentiality is a concern, WordPerfect X3 makes it easy to remove private or sensitive data that can be inadvertently embedded in office productivity documents. * Online resources featuring Yahoo![R] Search - Enjoy enhanced Web integration with the new ability to access online resources, both from Corel and Yahoo!, and quickly conduct Web searches directly from within WordPerfect X3. * New ease of use and formatting features include: the enhanced PerfectExpert[TM], with its new templates and helpful advice; enhanced Word Count capabilities; new Migration Manager; enhanced Paste without Formatting feature; New ability to view and print documents from within a web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. ; enhanced charting and reporting tools and more. The suite's new capabilities are complemented by the suite's beloved classic features - such as RealTime Preview, context-sensitive toolbars and task-oriented wizards, making Corel WordPerfect Office X3 the easiest-to-use version of the suite ever offered. Full pricing and availability details for Corel WordPerfect Office X3 - Standard Edition are available now online at www.corel.com. Localized product information is available at www.corel.com.mx or www.corel.com.br. About Corel Corporation Corel is a leading global packaged software company with over 40 million users. The Company provides full-featured, easy-to-use productivity, graphics and digital imaging software and enjoys a favorable market position among consumers and small businesses. The Company's award-winning product portfolio features popular, globally recognized brands, including CorelDRAW Graphics Suite, Corel Paint Shop Pro Paint Shop Pro (PSP) is a bitmap graphics editor and vector graphics editor for computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system that was originally published by Minneapolis-based Jasc Software. , Corel Painter[TM], Corel DESIGNER[R], Corel WordPerfect Office, WinZip[R], and iGrafx[R]. With hundreds of industry awards for leadership in software innovation, design and value, Corel's products have built a loyal following of customers and partners around the globe. Corel's products are sold in over 75 countries through an international network of resellers and retailers, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and Corel's global websites. [c] 2006 Corel Corporation. All rights reserved. Corel, the Corel logo, Corel DESIGNER, WordPerfect, CorelDRAW, iGrafx, Paint Shop Pro, Painter, PerfectExpert, Presentations, Quattro Pro, and WinZip are trademarks or registered trademarks of Corel Corporation and/or its subsidiaries. All other product, font and company names and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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