Designers could finally access ligatures, swashes, and stylistic sets from modern OpenType fonts without third-party utilities—a rare feature in competing software at the time.
If you need the "feel" of X6 with modern compatibility: CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 16.1.0.843 -64 bit-...
The most significant technical advancement in the 16.1.0.843 build was its native 64-bit support. Before this version, designers working on large-format projects—such as trade show banners, vehicle wraps, or high-DPI multipage documents—faced frequent memory crashes. 32-bit applications were capped at utilizing roughly 2GB to 4GB of RAM, regardless of how much hardware the user possessed. 32-bit applications were capped at utilizing roughly 2GB
CorelDRAW X6 shattered this ceiling. By leveraging 64-bit memory addressing, the suite could utilize all available system RAM (up to 8GB, 16GB, or more). This resulted in a drastic improvement in stability when handling complex vector effects, large bitmaps, and high-resolution output. For the professional print industry, this upgrade alone justified the purchase, effectively eliminating the "Out of Memory" error that plagued earlier iterations. This resulted in a drastic improvement in stability
While earlier X6 builds (e.g., 16.0.0.707) had teething problems, build 16.1.0.843 refined the following tools: