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New and enhanced features: a closer look

Corel DESIGNER® Technical Suite 12 was conceived with a specific focus on the technical illustrator's needs for design precision, collaboration efficiency and flexibility, and the ability to repurpose old data and drawings. The following are some of the suite's new and enhanced features.

	New projected drawing modes: The new drawing profiles let users project objects onto drawing planes and create the illusion of a three-dimensional graphic.
	Enhanced gravity snapping: Gravity snapping lets users snap the pointer to various points in objects, making it easy to create and position objects accurately.
	Enhanced dynamic guides: Dynamic guides are temporary guidelines users can pull from the following snap points in objects — center, node, quadrant, and text baseline.
	New B-Spline tool: The B-Spline tool lets users draw curved lines by setting control points that shape the curve without breaking it into segments.
	New dimension lines: Corel DESIGNER introduces three new types of dimension lines — segment, radial, and diameter dimension lines.
	New enhanced line styles: Enhanced line styles are especially useful for illustrating stitch patterns and drawing parallel lines.
	New hatch fills: Hatch fills consist of hatch patterns that are composed of vector-based lines and are used for representing different types of materials in a drawing.
	New Fillet/Chamfer/Scallop: Technical illustrators can now use scallops, fillets, and chamfers to shape objects.
	Enhanced transformations docker: The improved Transformations docker lets users project and unproject objects with precision.
	Enhanced Eyedropper tool: The enhanced Eyedropper tool lets users copy color, object properties, effects, and transformations from one object to another.
	New Workspace Selector: To help users quickly improve productivity, Corel DESIGNER offers additional workspaces.
	New Dynamic language switching: Users can install multiple language packs to enable use of the application in more than one language.
	Enhanced Unicode support: Exchange files effortlessly by ensuring that text is displayed correctly, regardless of the language or operating system in which the file was created.
	New double-byte formatting: Users can now apply Asian fonts to Asian and Latin text by using the property bar.
	New Insert formatting codes docker: The new Insert formatting codes docker lets users easily insert special characters and spaces, such as em dashes, en dashes, and nonbreaking spaces.
	New Hotspotting — Object Data Manager: Users can manage a complex project by assigning data to its objects.
	New Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) support: Import and export to files of CGM Version 4 profiles, such as ACGM (ActiveCGM), WebCGM, and GREX (ATA GREXCHANGE).
	Enhanced Corel DESIGNER® (DSF): Support for files saved in Corel DESIGNER 9 and earlier versions has been improved. Hatch fills and enhanced line styles are now preserved.
	New Export for Office: This new feature lets users optimize drawings for exporting to Microsoft Office or WordPerfect Office.
	New AutoCAD® Data Interchange Format (DXF) and AutoCAD® Drawing Database (DWG): AutoCAD 2004 files are supported.
	Enhanced Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG): Users can now choose a variety of new options when exporting a drawing to the SVG file format.
	Enhanced Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF): Users can now publish a drawing to a PDF file that is compatible with Adobe Acrobat 6.0.
	Enhanced Adobe® Photoshop® (PSD): Support for duotone images and layer preservation have been added.
	New Corel PHOTO-PAINT® 12: Take advantage of this complete image-editing application that lets users retouch and enhance photos as well as create original graphics.
	New CorelCAPTURE™ 12: This application lets users capture onscreen images.