The History of ®

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® 1985 – is founded. Building desktop 1987 – The official beginning of CorelDRAW®. 1991 – CorelDRAW 2 launches in the fall and 1992 – Corel once again re-defines ‘value’ in 1995 – Blazing a trail, CorelDRAW 6 1996 – Corel Acquires WordPerfect , ® ® publishing systems, Corel delivers early text Code-named “WALDO” (represented by the customers experience effects including the industry. Combining illustration, is the first graphics suite built for , Paradox , and the ® effects tools that inspire developers to attractive guy above), CorelDRAW Envelope, Blend, Extrude, and Perspective in photo-editing, and more in one package, Windows® 95 and 32-bit power. PerfectOffice application suite from consider the ambitious task of building an development is started by a small but user-friendly graphics software for the very CorelDRAW 3 is the world’s first full-featured . New WordPerfect Suite 7 easy-to-use, full featured graphics application passionate team of engineers, laying the first time. Copied by virtually every other graphics suite. debuts later that year. for the PC. foundation for what would become one of 1989 – CorelDRAW 1 launches in spring and is graphics application on the market, the world’s most popular software titles! absolutely stunning for its time. Version 1 CorelDRAW delivers these essential tools broke new ground for features and first, and challenges what customers can functionality and took full advantage of all the expect from their graphics software! power a 286 PC with a 40 MB hard drive and 2 MB of RAM could deliver.

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

2000 – KnockOut™, Painter™ and KPT® are 2001 – Corel brings Micrografx® Designer into 2002 – As part of a major expansion of OEM Spring 2003 – Offering features designed to August 2003 – Vector Capital acquires February 2004 – Corel re-defines the April 2004 – WordPerfect Office 12 gives now part of the Corel graphics family. Built its product portfolio. From small businesses bundling activities with a variety of major bring easy XML publishing to the masses, Corel. Company goes private to build a solid graphics software landscape with an office suite market increasingly for both the Mac and PC, these best-of-breed to enterprise customers, graphics pros to hardware manufacturers, WordPerfect Office WordPerfect Office 11 introduced two ways foundation for future growth by focusing on CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12. With new interested in alternatives to Microsoft® applications secure Corel’s place as a creative technical illustrators, Corel now has an debuted on PCs in 2002. Reveal Codes to create XML content: a powerful its core products – including CorelDRAW and intelligent tools, customers are now able to Office exactly what they need: industry- powerhouse! offering for virtually any PC graphics and Publish To PDF make it a favorite! enterprise-class XML editor, and an easy-to- WordPerfect Office. complete their designs twice as fast as leading compatibility including an software user. use “Publish to XML” feature in WordPerfect before. Built for design professionals and innovative new "Microsoft Mode". With 11 and Presentations™ 11. business users, the product has won more 20 million users worldwide, it's the world's than 40 industry awards. preferred alternative to .

2004 2005 2006

Technical Suite 12

® October 2004 – Painter IX releases to much October 2004 – After completing the successful February 2005 – Corel launches April 2005 – WordPerfect Office 12 - Small January 2005 - Corel acquires WinZip, April 27, 2006 - Corel completes an September, 2006 - Paint Shop Pro acclaim. Product reviewers and industry turnaround of its core businesses, Corel acquires Jasc Corel DESIGNER® Technical Suite 12 – the Business Edition is defined by its new the world’s #1 compression software. initial public offering of our common Photo XI releases. This easy-to-use, experts hail the latest release as “the best Software, Inc., makers of the award-winning Paint Shop world’s most powerful and complete approach to addressing users' needs, shares on the TSX and the NASDAQ professional-quality digital studio lets Painter yet.” Pro and leaders in digital imaging and photo-editing. technical graphics suite offers technical adopting an easy-to-use task-orientation. Global Market. users edit and manage their photos The acquisition extends Corel’s capabilities in the rapidly illustration and professional photo editing. and create stunning photo projects. expanding digital photography market and sets the stage for the company’s next phase of growth.

2007 2008

® ® ® ® December 2006 - Corel finalizes the acquisition of April 2007 - VideoStudio 11 launches in September 2007 - Painter™ Essentials 4 launches, January 2008 - CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 March 2008 - WinDVD 9 Plus Blu-ray launches April 2008 - WordPerfect Office X4 releases with Intervideo Ulead, a provider of Digital Media authoring Standard and Plus versions, offering the first bringing Painter technology to people who want a releases with major workflow enhancements, with enhanced Blu-ray Disc playback, advanced a full range of PDF Capabilities, enhanced and video playback software with a focus on high-definition AVCHD™ editing solution for consumer ‘home art studio’ to get started with digital art online collaboration tools and expanded content upscaling for near-high-definition viewing and compatibility with Microsoft® Office 2007, and and DVD technologies. VideoStudio®, DVD Copy™, ® ® video editing and DVD authoring software. and create stunning photo-paintings. and resources to fuel the creative process, simplify surround sound for the ultimate viewing new tools for Web collaboration, note taking MovieFactory , and PhotoImpact are among the products added to Corel’s portfolio. The Plus version provides a complete HD project management and optimize the graphic experience. and business intelligence solution for capturing, editing, authoring design workflow. and burning HD DVD videos.