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    CorelDRAW 2026 macOS Changes

    I am a long-time Windows user who has used CorelDRAW on Windows for years, but I recently purchased the macOS version. In the 2026 version, for instance, I cannot assign a color to the outline via right-click; mouse zooming doesn't work; and the T...
    Guest 2 days ago in  0

    # Feature Request: A Powerful 3D Design Engine, Editable Effect Templates, Modular Architecture, and an Open Plugin Development Platform for CorelDRAW I request Corel to transform CorelDRAW into a more powerful, flexible, and future-ready graphic design application by introducing a professional 3D design system, reusable editable effect templates, a modular architecture, and an open plugin development platform. ## 1. A Complete Professional 3D Design Engine CorelDRAW needs a powerful, integrated 3D engine for both text and vector objects. Designers should be able to create professional 3D effects directly inside CorelDRAW without depending on other software for every advanced effect. Important features should include: - Advanced 3D extrusion, bevels, contours, depth control, rounded edges, and customizable geometry. - Professional materials such as gold, silver, chrome, metal, glass, crystal, jelly, liquid, plastic, rubber, and glossy or transparent materials. - Realistic reflections, refractions, highlights, shadows, lighting, textures, and environmental effects. - HDRI/environment lighting, customizable light sources, backgrounds, and material properties. - Procedural textures and customizable material presets. - Real-time previews and high-quality final rendering, with GPU acceleration where supported. - Transparent-background rendering and high-resolution output suitable for banners, posters, signs, labels, and professional printing. - Non-destructive editing, allowing users to modify text, depth, bevels, materials, lighting, and other properties at any time. - Reusable effects that can be copied between objects, saved as presets, and shared with other designers. The system should make it possible to create attractive 3D typography and vector graphics comparable to the results achievable with dedicated 3D software, while keeping the workflow accessible to ordinary graphic designers. ## 2. Editable 3D Text Templates and an Effect Library CorelDRAW should provide a library of ready-made, editable 3D text styles and design templates. For example, a designer could open a gold 3D text template, replace the sample wording with a shop name or heading, and retain the compatible material, bevel, extrusion, lighting, reflections, and other effect settings. The template system should support: - Editable text rather than flattened images. - Reusable styles for gold, chrome, metallic, jelly, glass, glossy, embossed, and other popular effects. - Easy replacement of sample text while preserving the design style as much as possible. - Editable vector objects and customizable effect settings. - User-created templates that can be saved, organized, imported, exported, and shared. - An online library or marketplace where designers can access free and paid templates, materials, lighting setups, textures, and presets. This would save considerable time, especially for designers who frequently create shop banners, advertisements, signboards, logos, and promotional graphics. ## 3. Modular Architecture for Better Performance CorelDRAW should use a modular architecture so users can install, enable, disable, or uninstall optional tools and advanced workspaces according to their needs and computer capabilities. Possible modules could include: - 3D Studio - AI Design Studio - Advanced Typography Studio - Image Editing Studio - Automation and Macro Studio - Advanced Effects Studio Users who only need basic vector design should not have to keep every advanced engine running. When an optional module is disabled, its background processes and unnecessary resource usage should be stopped wherever technically possible. The application should also offer hardware-adaptive quality settings, such as low, balanced, and high quality, based on available RAM, CPU, and GPU resources. Lightweight computers should remain usable, while powerful workstations should be able to take full advantage of advanced capabilities. ## 4. An Open Plugin SDK and Third-Party Developer Ecosystem Corel should not limit the future of CorelDRAW to the features its own development team has the time, budget, or resources to build. It should provide an official, well-documented Software Development Kit (SDK), stable APIs, and development tools that allow independent developers to create professional plugins and extend CorelDRAW's capabilities. The platform should allow developers to create integrated tools and dockers that work directly with CorelDRAW's document and vector objects, rather than being restricted to exporting flattened images. Where technically feasible, the SDK should provide access to: - Vector objects, editable text, pages, layers, selections, and document properties. - Custom effects, 3D engines, material systems, presets, and reusable templates. - Dockers, panels, workspaces, menus, commands, and user-interface extensions. - Document events, automation, macros, import/export functions, and rendering workflows. - Undo/redo integration, plugin lifecycle management, and resource handling. - Interfaces for connecting external rendering engines, AI tools, and other specialized software. Corel should support practical development technologies such as C++ and C#/.NET, along with JavaScript/TypeScript and Python where technically feasible. The SDK should include clear documentation, working examples, starter projects, debugging tools, and instructions for building, testing, packaging, and maintaining plugins. A beginner-friendly plugin builder or visual development environment would also help designers who have useful ideas but limited programming experience. ## 5. AI-Assisted Plugin Development Corel should make its official SDK and API documentation accessible enough that AI coding assistants, including ChatGPT and other development tools, can help people create new CorelDRAW extensions. For example, a designer could explain a requirement in ordinary language and use an AI assistant to help write, understand, debug, and improve the plugin code using Corel's documented APIs. I would also like to use ChatGPT to learn plugin development and build practical tools for CorelDRAW, including advanced 3D text tools, editable effect-template systems, typography utilities, automation tools, and other extensions described in this request. This requires reliable APIs, clear technical documentation, usable development examples, and a stable testing environment. AI-generated code would still need to be compiled, tested, and validated against the actual SDK before being used. Corel could further encourage this ecosystem by providing an official plugin marketplace for free and paid extensions, with version compatibility information, documentation, reviews, and developer support. Plugin security, isolation where possible, resource management, crash recovery, and compatibility controls should be included to protect application stability. ## 6. Professional Printing and Export Compatibility All these advanced features should fit naturally into CorelDRAW's existing professional graphic design and print-production workflow. The system should support high-resolution output, transparent backgrounds, accurate colors, suitable CMYK/RGB workflows, editable vector content wherever possible, and reliable export to commonly used professional file formats. Designers must be able to use the results for real production work, including large-format banners, signboards, posters, labels, logos, advertising materials, and commercial printing. ## Expected Outcome These improvements would help CorelDRAW become more than a vector drawing application. They would create a flexible design platform where Corel's own developers, independent plugin developers, and AI-assisted creators could work together to expand its capabilities. A powerful integrated 3D engine would reduce dependence on external software. Editable effect templates would speed up everyday design work. A modular architecture would help control resource usage. An open SDK would allow the community to develop tools that Corel's internal team may not have the time or resources to create. **Please consider making CorelDRAW a modular, extensible graphic design platform with professional 3D capabilities, editable design templates, and an official third-party plugin ecosystem. Give developers and AI-assisted creators the tools to build the features the community needs, rather than limiting future innovation to what Corel's own team can develop internally.**

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    Guest about 12 hours ago in  0

    # PART 5: An Open Plugin Development Platform for CorelDRAW — Empower Every Developer and AI-Assisted Creator ## 16. Open and Extensible Architecture for Third-Party Developers If Corel's internal development team does not have sufficient time, resources, or specialized expertise to build every advanced feature requested above, please make CorelDRAW sufficiently open and extensible so that independent developers, third-party companies, researchers, and individual programmers can create professional tools and plugins for it. Corel should not have to develop every specialized tool itself. Instead, it should provide the official development infrastructure that allows the wider developer community to extend CorelDRAW safely and reliably. The platform should make it possible to develop and integrate advanced tools for: - Complete 3D modeling, materials, shaders, HDRI/Image-Based Lighting, lighting, and rendering. - Reusable 3D text effects, editable templates, and material libraries. - AI-assisted design and intelligent object manipulation. - Advanced typography, calligraphy, and text effects. - Image editing, compositing, and specialized graphics tools. - Automation, batch processing, and productivity tools. - Printing, prepress, color management, and production workflows. - Any other useful graphic design capability that third-party developers can create. ## 17. A Complete Official SDK and Plugin API Provide a well-documented Software Development Kit (SDK), public APIs, development examples, and stable interfaces that allow third-party developers to build fully integrated CorelDRAW extensions. The SDK should provide appropriate access to: - Vector objects, curves, nodes, shapes, and object properties. - Text objects, fonts, text formatting, and editable typography. - Document pages, layers, selections, and object transformations. - Commands, tools, property panels, and custom interactive workflows. - Docker panels, dockers, toolbars, menus, keyboard shortcuts, and other UI integration points. - Custom effects, property editors, reusable presets, and object-processing operations. - Document events and automation hooks. - Import/export functions and supported rendering interfaces. - Undo/redo integration and document-safe editing operations. - Resource management, plugin lifecycle, and module enable/disable controls. Where technically feasible, third-party plugins should be able to create genuine editable CorelDRAW objects and interact with the document directly, rather than being limited to generating flattened images or exporting files to external applications. ## 18. Let Developers Create Their Own Dockers and Workspaces Allow developers to create professional dockers and dedicated workspaces that behave like native CorelDRAW features. For example, a third-party developer should be able to build a complete 3D Studio docker containing geometry controls, materials, HDRI selection, lighting, render settings, reusable styles, and template management. Another developer should be able to create an AI Studio, an advanced typography docker, or a specialized print-production panel. Plugins should integrate naturally with CorelDRAW's interface, selection system, document workflow, and undo/redo functionality wherever supported. ## 19. Support Multiple Programming Languages and Development Approaches Where practical, provide support for commonly used development technologies, with clear guidance about which languages and interfaces are appropriate for each task. This could include: - C++ or other suitable native technologies for performance-intensive engines. - C# and .NET for appropriate application integrations. - JavaScript or TypeScript for supported scripting, automation, and interface extensions. - Python or other suitable languages where technically feasible. - External engines and libraries that can communicate with CorelDRAW through documented APIs. The objective is not to require every developer to use one programming language. It is to provide stable, well-documented interfaces so developers can choose suitable technologies for their tools. ## 20. Enable AI-Assisted Plugin Development Modern AI coding assistants can help people understand programming, write code, debug errors, and build prototypes. Corel should make its SDK and development documentation easy for both human developers and AI coding assistants to understand. Please provide: - Complete, searchable API documentation. - Small, working examples for common plugin tasks. - Starter projects and reusable code templates. - Clear documentation for building dockers, commands, custom effects, and document operations. - Example projects that demonstrate safe access to text, shapes, layers, selections, and object properties. - API references and examples in formats that can be understood by AI coding assistants such as ChatGPT. - Documented build, installation, debugging, and testing procedures. - Clear compatibility information for each supported CorelDRAW version. - Error messages and diagnostic tools that help developers identify and fix plugin problems. A user or developer should be able to ask ChatGPT to help write, explain, modify, or debug plugin code using the official SDK documentation. For example, a user could request assistance with creating a custom 3D text-effects docker, a tool that copies complex object properties, an automated banner-layout tool, or a batch-processing plugin. ChatGPT and other coding assistants could then help generate code based on the documented APIs, while the developer tests, verifies, and packages the resulting plugin. Corel should not need to build every requested tool itself. It should make it practical for developers and AI-assisted creators to build compatible extensions using supported interfaces. ## 21. Allow Non-Programmers to Build Simple Tools Where feasible, provide a visual plugin builder, workflow editor, or beginner-friendly development environment. Users should be able to combine supported commands, document operations, property controls, and automation steps to create simple tools without starting from a complex codebase. For advanced tools, users should be able to combine visual workflows with code generated or assisted by AI. The platform should clearly distinguish between safe, supported operations and functions that require advanced native programming. ## 22. Plugin Marketplace and Community Ecosystem Provide an official marketplace or community hub where developers can publish, distribute, update, and maintain their plugins. The marketplace should support: - Free and paid plugins. - Individual developers and commercial plugin companies. - Ratings, reviews, documentation, screenshots, and compatibility details. - Searchable categories for 3D, AI, typography, automation, image editing, and print production. - Version management and update notifications. - Developer documentation and community support. - Clear licensing and distribution terms. - Security checks and a way to report malicious or defective extensions. Users should be able to discover and install useful tools without manually searching across unrelated websites. ## 23. Safe, Independent, and Hardware-Adaptive Plugins Plugins should operate through a documented lifecycle with appropriate permission controls, error handling, and isolation wherever technically feasible. The platform should support: - Independent installation, activation, deactivation, updating, and removal. - Resource management so inactive heavy engines can shut down and release resources. - Compatibility checks before loading a plugin. - Clear warnings about unsupported versions and missing dependencies. - Recovery options if a plugin crashes. - Protection against unsafe code and unauthorized document modifications. - Performance modes suitable for different CPU, RAM, and GPU capabilities. - Clear rules for saving documents that depend on third-party plugins. A defective plugin should not unnecessarily compromise the stability of the entire application. ## 24. Long-Term Vision: A Platform That Can Grow Beyond Corel's Own Development Team CorelDRAW should evolve from a mostly vendor-controlled application into an extensible professional design platform that can benefit from contributions across the global developer community. Corel can concentrate on improving the core application, document compatibility, stability, and essential tools, while third-party developers build specialized solutions for different industries and workflows. If Corel cannot develop every advanced feature internally, it should make it possible for others to do so. **The key request is simple: do not limit CorelDRAW's future to the features Corel's own team has time to build. Provide the official APIs, SDK, documentation, development tools, and plugin infrastructure that allow independent developers and AI-assisted creators to extend CorelDRAW safely and professionally.**

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    Guest about 12 hours ago in  0

    Default Font

    When you set a default point within a diocument, it retains it. However there is no way to make a default font that is selected when you start a new project. IF I have a "house" font, I ought to be able to have that as selected upon starting a new...
    Guest 11 days ago in  0

    Support for Custom UserUnit in PDF Export for Large Format Printing (Bypassing the 5080mm Limit)

    ear CorelDRAW Development Team,As a professional user in the large format printing industry, I am writing to request a crucial update to the PDF export engine in CorelDRAW.Currently, CorelDRAW limits the export of vectors in a 1:1 scale to a maxim...
    Guest 5 days ago in  1

    vCard as Qr-Code

    There are important fields missing, ORGANIZATION ans POSITION
    Guest 13 days ago in  0

    Text Box Boarder

    Like Word or Powerpoint, make it so we can easily add a text box border without having to draw another shape AND group it. Powerpoint has a quick feature where we can change the shape of the boarder as well. I figured if those programs had somethi...
    Guest 13 days ago in  0
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    Make CorelDraw (windows 10) more stable

    I have used CD for over 30 years and very much like the application. However, over the last few versions the application has become unstable in certain situations, the issue I have is not just me as I have read on the forum that many other users a...
    Guest over 4 years ago in  17 Being explored

    Neue Montreal font not working properly

    The Neue Montreal font family is not working properly in CorelDRAW 2026 (it works just fine in older CorelDRAW 2019 on the same PC). The problem is that Neue Montreal Bold and Bold Italic are both dispayed like the same Italic font. If Neue Monrea...
    Guest 19 days ago in  1 Already exists

    Fix the font problem in Corel for Mac

    I've been using Corel for Windows since 1989, version 1.1. You could always click on a font and then quickly use the up and down arrows to scroll through the thousands of installed fonts. This capability does not exist in Corel for Mac, a huge dis...
    DEL Aitchison about 1 month ago in  1