CorelDRAW'R' Graphics Suite 12 Celebrates Banner Year! Award-Winning Graphics Suite Experiences Largest Revenue Growth in More than 5 Years.OTTAWA -- One year following the release of its flagship graphics software, 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. is celebrating the success of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12. Delivering the largest revenue growth for the product line in more than 5 years and an influential collection of award wins, Corel's comprehensive graphics suite has generated significant market momentum over the last 12 months. CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12 has enjoyed tremendous success in serving the needs of important customer groups including graphics professionals and value-conscious business users in small-and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). By delivering powerful, yet remarkably easy-to-use graphics software at a great price, Corel has spurred its popularity in the fast-growing SMB market See SMB. . Corel's customer-driven strategy has enabled the CorelDRAW product line to deliver impressive gains - surpassing industry growth statistics for the world-wide PC graphics software market. This success is a critical component of the company's impressive business turnaround, restoring growth to all of Corel's major product lines and achieving four consecutive quarters of profitability. "Last February, Corel launched CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12 with a clear plan - we focused on delivering a powerful product for our professional graphics customers and growing our presence with small and medium businesses. We are pleased to announce that this commitment has paid off by delivering CorelDRAW's largest revenue spike A burst of extra voltage in a power line that lasts only a few nanoseconds. See power surge, power swell, sag and surge suppression. (jargon) spike - To defeat a selection mechanism by introducing a (sometimes temporary) device that forces a specific result. since 1999," said Nick Davies, General Manager of Graphics for Corel. "As we enter into the new year, we're building on this highly effective strategy by continuing to reach out to the SMB market, which is notoriously under served by other enterprise-focused software vendors. Vertical markets remain essential to our success as we strengthen our relationships with the key customers and communities who have made CorelDRAW the standard graphics software for their markets, including sign making, engraving engraving, in its broadest sense, the art of cutting lines in metal, wood, or other material either for decoration or for reproduction through printing. In its narrowest sense, it is an intaglio printing process in which the lines are cut in a metal plate with a , screen printing, and the personalization Custom tailoring information to the individual. On the Web, personalization means returning a page that has been customized for the user, taking into consideration that person's habits and preferences. industries." Spurring this revenue growth, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12 has enjoyed tremendous recognition from some of the most influential publications around the world. With more than 39 industry awards already won, some of the most notable honors include: - CNET Editors' Choice Award - February 2004 - CRN "Best Product Overall" SMB publishing solutions review - February 2004 - CNET Top 100 of 2004: Best All-Purpose Graphics Suite - December 2004 - ZDNet Week, UK, Editor's Choice Award - March 2004 - Digital Creative Arts, UK, Editor's Choice Award - March 2004 - Digital Art Creation, Germany, Kauftipp Award - June 2004 - Grafica & Digital Foto, Italy, Choice of the Month Award - May 2004 - Arte y Diseno, Spain, Recommended Award - September 2004 "We've relied on CorelDRAW Graphics Suite since the beginning and can't imagine working without it. Now that we've adopted version 12, we're able to work faster than ever before. Whenever I speak with colleagues in our industry, I let them know that this is the ideal tool for graphics pros working in a production environment," said Dave Deem, owner of Summit Graphics in Moline, Illinois Moline is a city located in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States. Moline's population is 43,768, as of the 2000 census. Moline is one of the Quad Cities, along with neighboring Rock Island and the Iowa cities of Davenport and Bettendorf. , offering screen printing, embroidery embroidery, ornamental needlework applied to all varieties of fabrics and worked with many sorts of thread—linen, cotton, wool, silk, gold, and even hair. Decorative objects, such as shells, feathers, beads, and jewels, are often sewn to the embroidered piece. , and digital printing services. CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12 features an exciting new breed of intelligent tools that allow users to complete design tasks twice as fast. Offering unrivaled value, the suite gives customers the incredible power of three integrated graphics Refers to having the video display circuitry of a computer contained directly on the motherboard rather than on a separate plug-in card (the display adapter). Integrated graphics typically share memory with the CPU (see shared video memory) and provide a more economical alternative to the applications, plus a collection of other useful tools and utilities, all in one box. CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12 includes CorelDRAW(R) 12 for illustration, page-layout and vector drawing See vector graphics. ; Corel PHOTO-PAINT Corel PHOTO-PAINT is a raster graphics editor created by Corel. The current version is Corel PHOTO-PAINT X3 (13). It is not sold by itself, but instead included with CorelDRAW (CorelDRAW Graphics Suite). Its main uses are image manipulation and creation of web graphics. (R) 12 for professional digital imaging; and Corel R.A.V.E.(TM) 3 for motion-graphics creation. CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12 is available in 13 languages to customers around the world. Four additional language versions - Swedish, Finnish, Russian, and Hungarian - will be available later this year. Available for the Windows platform, suggested retail pricing in the U.S. is $399 (full), $179 (upgrade), and $99 (education edition). For more information on CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12 or to download a full-featured, free trial, please visit www.corel.com/cdgs12. 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 See photo editor. and graphics creation, vector-illustration and technical-graphics applications along with office and personal productivity solutions. Corel's flagship products A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. include the CorelDRAW(R) Graphics Suite, the WordPerfect(R) Office Suite, the Corel Painter Painter is the name of a raster graphics software package used to create natural-looking artistic images using a computer. Originally available on the Macintosh, it is now also available for Windows. Natural-Media(R) painting and illustration software and the Paint Shop(TM) Family of digital photography and image-editing software. Corel was acquired by San Francisco-based Vector Capital in August 2003, and since that time, hasre-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 visit www.corel.com. (C) 2005 Corel Corporation. All rights reserved. Corel, CorelDRAW, R.A.V.E., PHOTO-PAINT, WordPerfect, Paint Shop, and the Corel logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Corel Corporation and/or its subsidiaries. All other product, font font or typeface or type family Assortment or set of type (alphanumeric characters used for printing), all of one coherent style. Before the advent of computers, fonts were expressed in cast metal that was used as a template for printing. and company names and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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