Horizontal text scaling function

Dear CorelDRAW Team,

As a long-time professional in prepress design and print workflow automation, I’m writing to express a critical and long-overdue concern regarding CorelDRAW’s handling of text—specifically, the lack of horizontal character scaling for paragraph text.

This is not a cosmetic feature request. It’s a fundamental production capability that every serious design tool should support. Adobe Illustrator has offered horizontal scaling for decades, allowing precise control over character width without converting text to curves. CorelDRAW, however, still lacks this functionality—even in its latest versions.

Let me be clear: geometric stretching of artistic text is not a solution. It distorts the object, breaks typographic integrity, and is completely ineffective for paragraph text. Paragraph text cannot be stretched, dragged, or scaled in any meaningful way. This limitation forces professionals like myself to resort to inefficient workarounds—editing in Illustrator, converting to curves, and re-importing into CorelDRAW—just to achieve basic typographic control.

This is unacceptable for a tool that claims to serve professional designers. Horizontal character scaling is not a “nice to have”—it’s a production necessity. Without it, CorelDRAW falls short in real-world workflows where precision, flexibility, and typographic control are non-negotiable.

I urge you to prioritize this feature. Not next year. Not “under consideration.” Now.

We need:

• True horizontal character scaling for both artistic and paragraph text

• Editable text objects that retain formatting and layout

• Compatibility with existing text workflows and automation

I’ve submitted this request before. I’ve posted in forums. I’ve waited patiently. But after years of silence, it’s time to speak plainly: CorelDRAW is losing relevance in professional typography. Please don’t let that happen.

Sincerely,
Jack
Prepress Designer & Workflow Automation Specialist