16 2001 2001 07 16 1 website www.igrafx.com micrografx micrografx inc. richardson texas was a united states based software house most notable for its graphics products . it was founded in 1982 by paul and george grayson and was a pioneer for graphics products for windows . corel and micrografx were competitors in 1996 for windows 95 users seeking graphics software . coreldraw 6 attracted graphics professionals while micrografx abc graphics suite attracted general users in the business community . 2 the company was acquired by corel in late 2001 . with this acquisition the micrografx graphics line e.g. micrografx picture publisher micrografx designer was integrated into the corel portfolio . since 2003 the former micrografx software section for business process analysis is represented by the separate business unit igrafx . 1 3 despite not being actively maintained or officially distributed a scattered community still enjoys micrografx products as legacy software . products range edit abc flowcharter diagramming software abc graphics suite a business oriented graphics software bundle released in 1995 featuring abc flowcharter designer and picture publisher and abc media manager . abc snapgraphix crayola art micrografx charisma micrografx simply 3d micrografx designer released as in a vision graphic software for windows 1.0 in 1986 this vector graphics editor was renamed to micrografx designer when version 2 was released in 1990 . in 1995 micrografx bundled its graphic software with the micrografx abc suite . after the acquisition by corel in 2001 the product was continued as corel designer . micrografx photo magic a raster graphics editor micrografx webtricity picture publisher windows draw references edit a b weiss todd r. corel expanding graphics offerings by buying micrografx . computerworld . deihl stanford ; g. armour van horn january 1996 . sumo graphics giants weigh in . byte . archived from the original scholar search on 1999 04 20 . press release corel welcomes new members to its board of directors company announces official close of micrografx acquisition . free online library . retrieved 17 may 2015 . this united states software corporation or company article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title micrografx & oldid 740075023 categories software companies based in texascompanies based in richardson texasamerican companies established in 19821982 establishments in texasunited states software company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutsch polski edit links this page was last modified on 18 september 2016 at 22 35 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view