Corel Corporation, Ottawa, Ontario

Address: 1600 Carling Ave.
Ottawa, ON K1Z 8R7
CA

Mailling Address: 1600 Carling Ave.
Ottawa, ON K1Z 8R7
CA

Phone: (613) 728-8200

Fax: (613) 728-8768

Corel Corporation

As one of the top ten packaged software brands in the world, Corel offers a broad range of feature-rich software addressing four key market segments: PC graphics, office productivity, digital image editing and natural-media painting and illustration. Corels award-winning product brands all share important attributes: ease of use, affordability, reliability and loyal, enduring customer bases:

WordPerfect Office Suite
WordPerfect combines word processing, spreadsheets, presentations and address book applications in one feature-rich, affordable office productivity suite. Widely deployed across government departments, law firms, small businesses and home offices, WordPerfect is compatible with popular file formats such as Microsoft Office, PDF, HTML and XML making it easy for users to share information with others. Recognized as the worlds best compatible alternative to Microsoft Office, WordPerfect stands as the office productivity suite of choice for 20 million users worldwide.

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite
Since its debut in 1989, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite has remained an industry leader in PC graphics and vector illustration setting the standard for easy-to-use and affordable PC graphics for designers and business users alike. As the premier graphics suite for Windows, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite offers three powerful applications in one package: CorelDRAW for vector illustration and page layout; Corel PHOTO-PAINT for professional digital imaging; and Corel R.A.V.E for motion graphics creation. Recognized as the 'best product overall' for small businesses by CRN (Computer Reseller News), CorelDRAW enjoys a substantial and growing user base, winning new customers in vertical industries such as advertising, print and publishing, sign making, personalization, and engraving, among others. CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12, the latest version of Corels flagship graphics suite has won CNETs Editors Choice and was named by the respected online site as 'The Best All-Purpose Graphics Suite' of 2004.

Corel Painter
Corel Painter is the worlds most powerful Natural-Media painting and illustration software for commercial artists, digital photographers and illustrators. Chosen by leading professionals in the film, gaming, photography, automotive and design industries, Corel Painter allows creative professionals to use their natural talents and techniques to create breathtaking works of art with their computer. Corel Painter IX, the newest version, has won several awards and accolades worldwide from established industry publications, including CNET.com, CreativePro.com, MacAddict, Game Developer, About.com, Computer Reseller News, Graphic Design USA, MacUser, Digital Creative Arts, and MacDesign, among others.

Paint Shop Family
The Paint Shop Family, one of the worlds leading digital photography and image editing software lines for avid and professional photographers, graphics hobbyists and business users, comprises three award-winning solutions: Paint Shop Pro, Paint Shop Pro Studio and Paint Shop Photo Album. Paint Shop Pro provides photo editing and graphics design for advanced and intermediate users seeking high quality image editing results. Paint Shop Pro Studio allows first-time digital camera users to edit photos and create projects without a steep learning curve. And, Paint Shop Photo Album allows users at all experience levels to organize, fix, share and protect photos quickly and easily.

With products available in 13 languages, Corel is renowned as a powerful international brand. Backed by an extensive global distribution network of over 5,000 value added resellers and major retailers, Corel is well-equipped to serve a growing base of millions of customers in more than 75 countries around the world.

In 2003, Corel was acquired and taken private by Vector Capital, a San Francisco-based venture capital and private equity firm. Today, Corel stands as one of the most profitable companies in the software industry. Each of its core product lines experienced significant growth last year, surpassing overall industry growth. In 2005, Corel is well-positioned for future growth in burgeoning sectors including the digital camera software and small business markets, vertical industries and emerging global regions.

Company Details

Year Established: 1985

Total Sales ($CDN): $50,000,000 +

Number of Employees: 900

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Corel Knockout 2
Corel KnockOut 2 dramatically increases the quality of your photo composites by letting you preserve fine image details that were once impossible to mask precisely. Hair, smoke, shadows, water, transparencies and any blurred or out-of-focus edges can now be masked with incredible precision, speeding up the entire design process. Plus, Corel KnockOut 2 is an ideal plug-in for Adobe Photoshop, Corel PHOTO-PAINT or Corel Painter 8, so it fits seamlessly into your workflow. Designed for Mac OS X, Corel KnockOut 2 now features new touchup tools and support for CMYK!

Wordperfect Office Suite 12
Microsoft Office Compatibility Enhanced! Microsoft Office compatibility has been significantly enhanced in WordPerfect Office 12 Open, edit and save Microsoft Office files, including Microsoft Office 2003 Open, edit and save legacy Microsoft Office files, even older formats like Microsoft Word 1.0 Using the WordPerfect Office Conversion Utility you can convert hundreds of Microsoft Word files to WordPerfect format at once Compatibility Toolbar New! The Compatibility Toolbar make it easy to share information with clients, colleagues and customers - even if they don't have WordPerfect Office. With a few easy clicks: Save your documents, spreadsheets and presentations as Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint documents Publish your documents and presentations to PDF so that anyone with the Adobe Acrobat reader can view them with no Distiller required Save your document in open formats such as XML and HTML WordPerfect Wireless Office Powered by ZIM With WordPerfect Wireless Office Powered by ZIM, you can stay connected: ZIM SMS Office enables two-way communication ensuring you stay on top of constantly changing information whether you, or others, are on the go ZIM SMS Mail offers a wireless e-mail that works with any POP3 e-mail account, regardless of what e-mail client software you use ZIM SMS Chat is an exciting software application that enables instant two-way chats between computer and mobile phone users via SMS text messaging Workspace Manager Introducing the WordPerfect Office Workspace Manager Save training costs and lower the learning curve with a few easy clicks Easily customize WordPerfect Office 12 to resemble the office suite you are most familiar with including shortcut keys, menu items and toolbars. Choose from WordPerfect Office, WordPerfect Legal, WordPerfect Classic (version 5.1) and Microsoft Office modes. PerfectExpert Not familiar with WordPerfect Office? No problem! Let the PerfectExpert guide you step-by-step through specific tasks! Presentations Effects With Presentations 12, you can easily enhance the photos and images in your slide shows by using one of more than a dozen fantastic special effects! Quattro Pro 12 Summarize and synthesize your data into meaningful results! With the ability to store over 1,000,000 rows of data, Quattro Pro 12 can easily handle the most elaborate projects Use CrossTab Reports to analyze and organize data into useful summaries (similar to Pivot Tables) Visually represent data in beautiful 3-D rendered charts OfficeReady Save time and get results with WordPerfect OfficeReady templates New! With the WordPerfect OfficeReady browser and 40 new templates, you can create stunning documents, spreadsheets and presentations quickly. Get more Solution Packs as your needs grow!

Coreldraw Graphics Suite 12
Designing just got easier with intelligent tools 1. New! Smart Drawing tool Get it right the first time! The application automatically recognizes shapes such as circles, triangles, arrows and parallelograms, and intelligently smooths curves while you're drawing, minimizing the number of steps it takes to produce graphics and extending your creative possibilities. 2. New! Sketching capabilities The Smart Drawing tool in CorelDRAW 12 now allows you to quickly sketch a design or layout. It intelligently corrects inaccurate movements to help you place objects and draw shapes precisely, saving you significant time in your review process. 3. New! Dynamic Guides Lay out objects easily and precisely the first time! When Dynamic Guides are turned on, temporary guides appear, which you can pull from the object snap points in your drawingcutting your design and re-purposing time dramatically! Time saving enhancements help you meet important deadlines 4. Suite-wide integration With the seamless interface, you can switch between CorelDRAW 12, Corel PHOTO-PAINT 12 and Corel R.A.V.E. 3 effortlessly to efficiently lay out and edit vector objects and bitmap images. 5. Enhanced! Text control Work faster and maximize your design layouts with improved control and rendering quality of text. Regardless of the zoom level, you can now see very detailed changes made to type, including leading and kerning. 6. Enhanced! Align and Distribute text features You now have the ability to choose which part of the text object you are aligning withFirst line baseline, Last line baseline or Bounding Boxproviding more flexibility, precision and control over your text layout. Improved file compatibility streamlines your workflow 7. New! Export to Microsoft Office or WordPerfect Office Publish designs for use in your office productivity suite to enhance text documents by adding graphics published directly from CorelDRAW Graphics Suite to Microsoft Office or WordPerfect Office. 8. Enhanced! AutoCAD DXF/DWG support Now when you export to AutoCAD DXF/DWG, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12 preserves line widths so you don't have to re-purpose images, making the CorelDRAW to AutoCAD workflow smoother to increase your productivity. 9. New! Unicode support Unicode text handling allows the software to store more than 65,000 characters, making a broader range of language characters available to users. This means that any text entered on any system will be maintained, including English, German and Japanese. One comprehensive suite gives you outstanding value 10. Comprehensive suite Get three industry-leading applications in one integrated, easy-to-use graphics suite, all at an incredible price. 11. Professional design utilities Instantly access a host of professional tools included in the suite, such as CorelTRACE, Corel Capture, Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications, Kodak Digital Science color management system and QuickTime 6.0 Player. 12. Supporting content Ease your workflow with quick access to digital content, step-by-step templates, tutorials and Corel Update, which notifies you of product updates and delivers them directly to your computer.

Paint Shop Pro 9
Your creativity has no limits, neither should your software. Paint Shop Pro continues to set the standard for affordable, professional image editing. Version 9 builds on Paint Shop Pros legacy of creative innovation with a new suite of Art Media features, professional photo editing tools, and precision graphic design capabilities. This version also features several industry innovations that greatly reduce time spent on production tasks. Edit photos, create graphics, draw, paint and animate, all within a highly personalized workspace environment. Its time to see what creativity without limits can be. Photos Digital Camera Noise Removal Filter scans photos and removes image noise while intelligently preserving image textures. Chromatic Aberration Removal Filter eliminates the purple fringe that often appears in digital photographs. Chromatic Aberration Removal Filter eliminates the purple fringe that often appears in digital photographs. Raw camera images. Paint Shop Pro 9 includes integrated support for Raw camera images (digital negatives) from several popular camera models. Set custom white balance, exposure and sharpening levels when converting Raw camera images for use in Paint Shop Pro. Art Art Media tools include Oil Brush, Acrylic Brush, Chalk, Pastel, Crayon, Colored Pencil and Marker. Palette Knife and Smear Tool realistically mix paints on the canvas. The Art Eraser provides an easy way to remove paint from the canvas. A new Mixer Palette provides an off-canvas area to experiment and mix custom colors together. Art Media Layers allow users to adjust the canvas texture, lighting and paint wetness properties of their artwork. Use Image Tracing options as an easy way to paint a photograph or other image using realistic brush strokes. Graphics Rectangle and Ellipse Tools simplify buttons, banners and other custom graphics. The Rectangle tool gives full control over rounded corners for custom buttons Symmetric Shape Tool allows users to create polygons and stars then edit them into custom artistic shapes. Users can edit shape properties at any time, not just at creation. The Text Tool features vertical text layout options and new anti-alias rendering choices that render cleaner text at smaller font sizes. A simplified Pen Tool makes it easier than ever to add lines and curves to graphics. The new Displacement Map Filter creates custom two- or three-dimensional surface effects for graphics based on an underlying image. Productivity New History Palette tracks each command applied to an image, making it easy to manage complex editing projects. Powerful Selective Undo functionality allows users to easily undo any individual editing step in a document's history. Save selected history steps to the clipboard or as scripts for use with another image. Resource Categorization: Users can now organize their Paint Shop Pro resource files by projects or subjects in flexible resource categories. New Text Options in print layout make it easier than ever to add custom captions and titles to photo layouts. A new Information Window in the browser allows users to view image details, creator information, and EXIF data for any selected image. Sort images in the Browser using EXIF data to find specific photos.

Corel Painter Ix
Favorite Features If you're a long-time Corel Painter user, you can continue to enjoy the favorite features that have been the cornerstones of the application for years. Whether you're a commercial designer, artist or photographer, the following features let you leverage your natural talents and techniques to create original works of art, and they distinguish Corel Painter from other applications. Brushes Brushes are the heart and soul of Corel Painter IX. There are more than 30 brush categories, ranging from crayons, chalk and charcoal to acrylics, watercolor, artists' oils and liquid ink. While most brush categories mirror the look and feel of traditional brushes, others offer a one-of-a-kind creative tool. Brush Control palettes provide quick, easy access to the settings for every brush control. Brushes are organized into distinct categories, each featuring a multitude of variants. Oil Oil brushes produce the effects expected from oil paints. All brush variants in this category cover underlying brush strokes, many are capable of multicolored strokes, and others interact with underlying pixels to create realistic effects. Watercolor Watercolor brush variants produce natural-looking watercolor effects. Almost all brush variants in the Watercolor category interact with the canvas texture. For most of these variants, stylus pressure affects the width of the brush stroke. As with traditional-media watercolor brushes, increased pressure widens a brush stroke and reduced pressure narrows a stroke. Cloners Painting with a cloner brush is similar to painting with any Corel Painter brush, except that cloner brush variants take their color information from a clone source, such as a pattern or another image, instead of from the Colors palette. Some cloner brush variants reproduce a source image directly. Other cloner brush variants reproduce a source image with low opacity and soft edges, or they use paper grain and specialized dabs for particular media effects. Brush Creator Corel Painter IX offers a large and varied brush collection. In addition, you can customize your brushes. Brush Creator allows you to create custom brushes by providing three flexible options for designing a brush: a) randomly modify an existing brush, b) combine the characteristics of two brushes, or c) create a custom brush from scratch. Papers In the real world, an artist's brush or drawing tool produces different results when applied to surfaces with different textures. Corel Painter allows you to control the texture of the canvas to achieve the results you'd expect from natural media on a given surface. Brushes interact with paper grain, just as natural tools react with the texture of the surfaces beneath them. Mixer Palette Colors not found in the Color palette can be created from scratch in the Mixer palette. This innovative feature includes tools, such as a brush and palette knife, designed specifically for painting and color mixing. With an Artists' Oils brush, you can sample and use multiple colors in the same brush stroke. Animation Corel Painter has an impressive array of animation features. The Onion Skinning feature allows you to view previous and future frames while working on the current frame. The Rotoscoping feature enables you to paint and modify a single frame of an existing movie. Animated movies can be saved as animated GIFs, QuickTime movies or AVI movies. Scripting Scripts allow actions to be recorded and played back, saving you time when performing the same operation on a collection of images. Scripts can be played back at any resolution, allowing you to automatically re-create high-resolution output from scripts recorded at low resolution. Scripts are also a great educational resource. Viewing a script of an artist's image-creation process is like looking through the artist's eyes. Support for Industry-standard File Formats Corel Painter IX lets you open and save Adobe Photoshop (PSD), TIFF (CMYK and RGB), Windows Bitmap (BMP), PC Paintbrush (PCX), TARGA (TGA), GIF, JPEG, Mac PICT, QuickTime (MOV), and Video for Windows (AVI) files. In addition, you can import and export Adobe Illustrator (AI) files. You can also save files in encapsulated PostScript (EPS) format. Image Hose The Image Hose behaves like a brush, but it sprays images instead of applying paint. You can also load your own image or select an image from the library included in the application.

Corel Grafigo 2
ENHANCED! Drawing Assistance Corel Grafigo 2 provides new drawing aids, such as line straightening and alignment, symmetry recognition and snapping, that convert the shapes you draw into perfect forms. New shapes include arrows and trapezoids. NEW! Grab-It The Grab-It tool lets you cut out content from any application or Web site and bring it directly into Corel Grafigo 2, with only a couple taps of your pen. ENHANCED! Real-time collaboration Through Microsoft Peer-to-Peer technology or Microsoft NetMeeting, Corel Grafigo 2 lets you collaborate with colleagues over the Internet, in real time. Changes made in one person's version of Corel Grafigo 2 can be seen immediately by all members of the collaboration session, saving time during group projects, brainstorming sessions and whenever input is required from multiple sources. ENHANCED! Onionskins A revolutionary way to review graphically rich projects, Onionskins are transparent overlays that let you add comments or changes to a graphic or drawing without altering the original. Onionskins are reusable and can be sent to another person. With Corel Grafigo 2, you can now show, hide, lock and unlock Onionskins, and use multiple Onionskins that overlap one another so you can view them independently. ENHANCED! Underlays You can now move, resize and delete underlays, including importing multi-page documents as separate underlays, which are then automatically added to the View Manager toolbar for easy access. With Corel Grafigo 2, you can import documents from any program installed on your Tablet PC that supports standard Windows OS print functionality. ENHANCED! Library Toolbar The new Library toolbar replaces the Symbols palette, allowing you to create reusable content from underlays, Onionskins, text frames and ink strokes, and organize content more easily with a new, intuitive workflow. NEW! E-mailing documents E-mail documents directly from Corel Grafigo 2. ENHANCED! View Manager Save specific views while you're working and access them at any time using the View Manager toolbar NEW! Slide shows Save views as a slide show and open them in an SVG viewer. For multi-page documents, Corel Grafigo 2 also provides navigation controls that let you navigate through the views you've defined. NEW! Navigator View document contents and navigate in documents more easily. Use the Navigator to pan to any area of the workspace with a tap of the pen, or auto-pan to move the document view in the direction you drag a selected object. ENHANCED! Ink strokes Resize and rotate ink strokes, and use the new Local Eraser tool to erase portions of an ink stroke. ENHANCED! Content selection Use the Pick and Lasso tools to select ink strokes, text frames and underlays with a tap of the pen, and grab anywhere within a selection to move the selected content. Plus, select and move content around the workspace with a single motion using the new Pick tool. NEW! Export preview Preview documents before you export them. NEW! Exchange information between programs Copy selected ink strokes from Corel Grafigo 2 and paste them into another program that supports ink. Or take selected ink strokes from a program that supports ink and insert them into Corel Grafigo 2.

Corel Designer Technical Suite 12
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.

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