CorelDraw is the really best tool for designers, this tool using for many industries such as print, fashion design, web design, desktop publishing, and digital media. This tool is famous for logo designs, most of the logo designers using this tool to create best and creative logos using this tool. But some designers feel this tool license cost is too high so that they expect alternative open source for CorelDraw. Here we have listed 5 best alternatives for CorelDraw, all these tools do not exactly work on CorelDraw but this will be really working on most of the features the same as CorelDraw.
1. Inkscape
Inkscape is the best alternative for CorelDraw; this is flexible drawing tool for all designers. This will support most of the CorelDraw important features such as pencil tool, shape tool, embed bitmap, Transformations, color management, clones, and many more options. You can also open the CDR file by using Inkscape application but the only drawback is this will not support the multipage format.
2. Open office draw
If you would like to use the simple tool for making the line drawing and then the right tool is Open office draw. Using this tool you can draw the complex drawing quickly also you can manipulate the objects rotate and three dimensions by using this tool. This tool will support most of the CorelDraw features arrange objects, group, ungroup, texture, lighting effects, transparency, and perspective.
3. Karbon
Karbon is also one of the important tools of CorelDraw alternative, using this tool you can make highly customized and extensible drawing. This tool supported to create the Layer based drawing so that you can easy to modify your drawing and advanced path editing tool helpful for to create the any irregular shape drawing. Karbon is supported wide range of file open format such as ODG, SVG, WPG, WMF and EPS.
4. Creative Docs
Creative Docs is the best vector graphic design tool, using this tool you can make the document, brochure, posters, illustration, plans and flow diagrams. Creative docs have full option of the high end drawing tool such as of polygons, benzier curves, text line, pipette, styles, Boolean operations and associations. Trim, Combining and convert characters also important features of this tool.
5. Alchemy
Alchemy is one of best vector graphic tool, this tool mostly using for to create the stunning illustration. Many magazine designers using this tool to make the magazine illustrations. This tool has all basic features of drawing, shaping, mirror and color management and this tool highlight is you can record the drawing session and this will automatically save the page in pdf files. This tool available for Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems.
Very nice list! These are great alternatives! I used some of these for quite a long time because I couldn’t afford CorelDraw, but recently I found this coupons page, where they offer discounts, so I decided not to let that offer pass by, and I am glad I did. It’s an incredible software, and very easy to learn! 🙂
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