Corel DRAW 12 is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Corel Corporation of Ottawa, Canada. It is also the name of Corel’s Graphics Suite, which bundles CorelDraw with a bitmap image editor, Corel PhotoPaint, and other graphics-related programs (see below). The latest version is designated X6 (equivalent to version 16), and was released in March 2012.
Corel DRAW 12 has capabilities of Dynamic guides, Smart Drawing tools, Export to MS Office or Word option, Virtual Segment Delete tool, Unicode text support.
Corel DRAW was originally developed for Microsoft Windows 3 and currently runs on Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. The current version, X6, was released on 20 march 2012.
Versions for Mac OS and Mac OS X 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 didn’t run natively; instead, it used a modified version of Wine to run) and the last version for OS X was version 11 (released in 2001). Also, up until version 5, CorelDRAW was developed for Windows 3.1x, CTOS and OS/2.
Problems installing or running older versions of Corel Draw under Windows 7 may be overcome by using Microsoft’s “Troubleshoot Compatibility” — right-click on the setup.exe file on the installation disk to select this facility (tested on version 12 with Windows 7, where previous attempts without Microsoft “Troubleshoot Compatibility” failed).
Problems installing or running older versions of Corel Draw under Windows 7 may be overcome by using Microsoft’s “Troubleshoot Compatibility” — right-click on the setup.exe file on the installation disk to select this facility (tested on version 12 with Windows 7, where previous attempts without Microsoft “Troubleshoot Compatibility” failed).
Corel Draw 12 : DR12WEX-1504397-KTY
Windows 2000, Windows XP (Home, Professional, Media Edition, 64-bit or Tablet PC Edition) or Windows Server 2003, each with the latest Service Pack.