New features were customizable interface, Polygon, Spiral, Knife and Eraser tools. This is the first version which was made exclusively for 32-bit Windows. It was a desktop publishing application akin to PageMaker, Quark Express, or InDesign. Corel Ventura was included in the suite (and then sold as a separate program). This is the last version which was made for, and works on Windows 3.x. Multi-page capabilities, Powerlines, support for graphic tablets, Clone tool, elastic node editing, Envelope tool. Photo-Paint (for bitmap editing), CorelSHOW (for creating on-screen presentations), CorelCHART (for graphic charts), CorelMOVE for animation, Mosaic and CorelTRACE (for vectorizing bitmaps). CorelDraw for Unix also became available. The inclusion of this software was the precedent for the actual graphic suites. Included Corel Photo-Paint (for bitmap editing), CorelSHOW (for creating on-screen presentations), CorelCHART (for graphic charts), Mosaic and CorelTRACE (for vectorizing bitmaps). Introduces backups on save, and draw rectangles from their centreĮnvelope tool (for distorting text or objects using a primary shape), Blend (for morphing shapes), Extrusion (for simulating perspective and volume in objects) and Perspective (to distort objects along X and Y axes).
The inclusion of TrueType 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 Adobe Type Manager paired with a photo editing program (PhotoPaint), a font manager and several other pieces of software, it was also part of the first all-in-one graphics suite. CorelDraw 3.0 came into its own with Microsoft's release of Windows 3.1. CorelDraw 1.x and 2.x runs under Windows 2.x and 3.0. That program, CorelDraw, was initially released in 1989. In 1987, Corel hired software engineers Michel Bouillon and Pat Beirne to develop a vector-based illustration program to bundle with their desktop publishing systems.
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