Ottawa, ON – August 15, 2006
Corel Corporation (NASDAQ:CREL; TSX:CRE) today announced that the CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X3 product family now includes four new Asian language versions – Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified, Korean, and Japanese. Now available in 17 languages worldwide, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 is ideal for creative professionals, design professionals, and business users in small and large companies – enabling customers to work natively in their local language, while also providing them with the flexibility of a multilingual product to better compete in the global marketplace.

These latest language releases add to the banner year CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 has enjoyed since its debut in early 2006. The powerful suite has already won more than 30 awards worldwide including a Best Buy rating from Consumer Guide, a Performance Award from the UK’s PC Plus, the Editor’s Choice from Australia’s Technology & Business, and a Recommended Award from Germany’s Com! magazine.

"With the release of these Asian language versions of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3, Corel strengthens the global presence of its flagship graphics product. This powerful suite meets the graphics needs of customers working around the world with a single solution that's easy to use and flexible enough to serve both small business and large corporate customers," said Nick Davies, Corel's General Manager Graphics.

Corel has also recently released CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 Service Pack 1, which is already included in the Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified, Korean, and Japanese versions. With enhancements to Import/Export filters, Unicode text support, Corel PowerTRACE® (which enables users to quickly and easily convert bitmaps into editable vector graphics), Interactive tools, and much more, this free update is now available to download for all other languages from Corel websites globally.

Design professionals and business users alike will enjoy a significant productivity boost with CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3. Complete with page-layout, illustration, photo-editing, and bitmap-to-vector tracing capabilities, the suite simplifies the design process for projects of any scale, including logo creation, professional marketing brochures, and eye-catching signs. CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 delivers an ideal combination of superior design capabilities, speed, ease of use, and affordability that is unmatched in the graphics software industry.

Around the world, businesses of all sizes choose CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 because it is affordable, powerful, and easy to learn. The suite is ideal for small businesses who wish to create their own marketing materials, providing them with everything they need to create their own unique designs that project a big image for their small business. CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 also provides large multinational companies with an ideal corporate standard that supports network installation for easy multilingual deployment throughout an organization – dramatically reducing corporate total cost of ownership.

Availability
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 is now available in 17 languages worldwide including Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified, Korean, Japanese, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Finnish, Swedish, Hungarian, Czech, Polish, and Russian.

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 Service Pack 1 is available as a free download for customers at www.corel.com/support.

For more information on CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 or to download a free, fully functional trial, please visit www.corel.com.

About Corel Corporation
Corel is a leading global packaged software company with an estimated installed base of over 40 million users. The Company provides high quality, affordable and easy-to-use productivity, graphics and digital imaging software and enjoys a favorable market position among value-conscious consumers and small businesses. Its products are sold in over 75 countries through a scalable distribution platform comprised of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), Corel's domestic and international websites, and a global network of resellers and retailers. The Company's product portfolio features well-established, globally recognized brands including CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite, Corel® WordPerfect® Office, WinZip®, Corel® Paint Shop Pro®, and Corel Painter™.

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