Corel today announced that it has simultaneously shipped CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite 12 in eight languages to customers around the world. Available today in English, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and Japanese, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12 allows users to perform many design tasks twice as fast as ever before.

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12 features an exciting new breed of intelligent tools that deliver the power professional designers demand, while adding the ease of use and compatibility business users require. This comprehensive graphics suite lets customers create stunning design projects in record time.

"Customers around the world are experiencing first hand the dramatic impact Corel's new suite has on the way they work. An evolution in graphics software, our new suite delivers an unsurpassed level of intelligence that speeds the design process and delivers outstanding professional results," said Brett Denly, Executive Vice President of World Wide Marketing. "By giving designers and business users powerful tools that save them valuable time when creating their graphics, we're changing their expectations of graphics software and establishing CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12 as a critical component of the well-equipped desktop."

•New! Smart Drawing tool – Designers are able to get their ideas down fast with professional results. Built-in intelligence automatically recognizes shapes, smooths curves and interprets freehand line drawings to easily create perfect shapes and objects, on the fly.

•New! Export For Office – Designers can create stunning graphics and easily bring them into Microsoft® Office and WordPerfect® Office documents. An ideal companion to office suites, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12 enables users to easily preview and import graphics files into text documents, slide presentations and spreadsheets without worrying about file format compatibility.

•New! Dynamic Guides – With unprecedented control, users can create a shape, draw a line, or place an object exactly where they want it, in one step. Design time is dramatically reduced when users can create, size and position objects easily and precisely, with fewer clicks.