CorelDRAW is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Alludo (formerly Corel Corporation).

It can serve as a digital painting platform, desktop publishing suite, and is commonly used for production art in signmaking, vinyl and laser cutting and engraving, print-on-demand and other industry processes.

[citation needed] In 1987, Corel engineers Michel Bouillon and Pat Beirne undertook to develop a vector-based illustration program to bundle with their desktop publishing systems.

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 (Corel Photo-Paint), a font manager, Corel Capture, and several other pieces of software, it was also part of the first all-in-one graphics suite.

[42] (23) MacOS A mid-year update added a few features such as live comments and collaboration, but was offered only to subscribers.

Support for VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) macros was added in version 9,[53] and Corel SCRIPT was eventually deprecated.

[62] The results and the first working snapshot of the CDR importer were presented at the Libre Graphics Meeting 2007 conference taking place in May 2007 in Montreal (Canada).

[64] As of 2008, the sK1 project claims to have the best import support for CorelDraw file formats among open source software programs.

UniConvertor is also used in the Inkscape and Scribus open source projects as an external tool for importing CorelDraw files.

The libcdr library is used in LibreOffice starting from version 3.6,[73] and thanks to public API it can be freely used by other applications.