CorelDRAW was originally developed for Microsoft Windows but an Macintosh version was released some years later.
CorelDRAW came into its own with Microsoft's release of Windows 3.1. Although a 16-bit application, the inclusion of TrueType in Windows 3.1 transformed CorelDRAW into a serious illustration program capable of quality typography.
At one time, a Linux version of CorelDRAW was available, but it was subsequently discontinued. The latest version 12 is available for Windows only.
Development History
In the late 1980s, Dr. Michael Cowpland and Terry Matthews founded Corel, and hired software engineer Pat Beirne to develop an illustration program to bundle with the Intel-based desktop publishing (DTP) systems Corel was selling. The program was well received and Corel soon focused on software alone.
Around the same time, as additional components were developed (Corel Trace, Corel Texture, Corel Photo-Paint, etc.) CorelDRAW was marketed as a graphics software suite.
CorelDraw is a vector-baseddrawing application developed and marketed by Corel Corp. of Ottawa, Canada.
Although an experimental Macintosh port of CorelDraw existed as early as 1994, the official release was the 6.0 version in late 1996.
Although Draw was likely to have been developed as a clone to Adobe Illustrator for the PC market, its user interface evolved to make it more approachable to novices.
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