Contents • • • • • • • • • • • History [ ] In 1987, Corel engineers Michel Bouillon and Pat Beirne undertook to develop a vector-based illustration program to bundle with their desktop publishing systems. That program, CorelDraw, was initially released in 1989. CorelDraw 1.x and 2.x ran under Windows 2.x and 3.0. CorelDraw 3.0 came into its own with Microsoft's release of Windows 3.1. The inclusion of in Windows 3.1 transformed CorelDraw into a serious illustration program capable of using system-installed outline fonts without requiring third-party software such as; paired with a photo-editing program (Corel Photo-Paint), a font manager and several other pieces of software, it was also part of the first all-in-one graphics suite.

Edit; WikiProject Computing / Software (Rated C-class, Mid-importance). Corel R.A.V.E. (Real Animated Vector Effects) is the vector-based animation application which comes bundled as part of the CorelDRAW Graphics Suite (starting in version 10). It is capable of creating interactive object-based animations and movies for the Web.

From Windows 7, 32-bit and 64-bit supported † CorelDraw 10 to X4 can open files of version 3 and later, but certain features may not be supported. ‡ The list of file formats that CorelDraw 10 to X4 can write may not be complete in this table. * CorelDraw X7 on Windows 10 requires Update 5 Features [ ] Supported platforms [ ] CorelDraw was originally developed for Microsoft and currently runs on,,,.

The latest version, 2018, was released on 11 April 2018. Versions for and were at one time available, but due to poor sales these were discontinued. The last port for Linux was version 9 (released in 2000, it did not run natively; instead, it used a modified version of to run) and the last version for OS X was version 11 (released in 2001). Eng subtitles. Also, up until version 5, CorelDraw was developed for,. With version 6, CorelDraw introduced the automation of tasks using a Corel proprietary scripting language, COREL Script. With version 10, support for VBA () was introduced for scripting by what Corel calls now macros. Corel recommends to no longer use the COREL Script language but only VBA.

CDR file format [ ] CorelDraw file format. No Structure [ ] In its first versions, the CDR file format was a completely primarily used for vector graphic drawings, recognizable by the first two bytes of the file being 'WL'. Starting with CorelDraw 3, the file format changed to a (RIFF) envelope, recognizable by the first four bytes of the file being 'RIFF', and a 'CDR*vrsn' in bytes 9 to 15, with the asterisk '*' being in early versions just a blank. Beginning with CorelDraw 4 it included the version number of the writing program in hexadecimal ('4' meaning version 4, 'D' meaning version 14). The actual data chunk of the RIFF remains a Corel proprietary format. From version X4 (14) on, the CDR file is a ZIP-compressed directory of several files, among them XML-files and the RIFF-structured riffdata.cdr with the familiar version signature in versions X4 (CDREvrsn) and X5 (CDRFvrsn), and a root.dat with CorelDraw X6, where the bytes 9 to 15 look slightly different -- 'CDRGfver' in a file created with X6. 'F' was the last valid hex digit, and the 'fver' now indicates that the letter before does no longer stand for a hex digit.

There is no publicly available CDR file format specification. Other CorelDraw file formats include CorelDraw Compressed (CDX), CorelDraw Template (CDT) and Corel Presentation Exchange (CMX). Use of CDR-files in other programs [ ] In December 2006 the project team started to the CDR format. The results and the first working snapshot of the CDR importer were presented at the Libre Graphics Meeting 2007 conference taking place in May 2007 in Montreal (Canada). Later on the team parsed the structure of other Corel formats with the help of the open source CDR Explorer.

As of 2008, the sK1 project claims to have the best import support for CorelDraw file formats among open source software programs. The sK1 project developed also the UniConvertor, a command line open source tool which supports conversion from CorelDraw ver.7-X4 formats (CDR/CDT/CCX/CDRX/CMX) to other formats. UniConvertor is also used in and open source projects as an external tool for CorelDraw files importing.

In 2007, blocked CDR file format in Microsoft Office 2003 with the release of Service Pack 3 for Office 2003. Microsoft later apologized for inaccurately blaming the CDR file format and other formats for security problems in Microsoft Office and released some tools for solving this problem.