

Power users gain greatly enhanced EPS and PDF import and export, color management, spot color support, and output. And in case you think Corel is being stingy, there's a comprehensive user guide and a beautiful handbook showcasing stunning samples from expert users of this suite. In addition, there are two CDs with 10,000 pieces of clip art and images, 1,000 OpenType fonts, 25 Windows Glyph fonts, and 100 templates, as well as help files, tutorials, and videos.

The program discs include CorelDraw, the main vector drawing package Corel Photo-Paint, an agile image editor Corel PowerTrace, a fast and powerful raster-to-vector tracing program Corel Capture, a screen-capture utility Bitstream Font Manager, for viewing and organizing fonts Pixmantec RawShooter Essentials, for converting raw camera format files and a duplexing wizard, for printing two-sided documents. The biggest difficulty in installing the suite is deciding what to install. For 20 years, the company has improved its star product with only a few bumps along the way, and the CorelDraw Graphics Suite X3 shows that the team listens to its audience.

It's difficult to fault the Corel development team.
