Corel Gallery
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There are some references the format is a Corel Flow image format, but no evidence to support. Also not to be confused with BMF format used as a materials/meta format for skins in the SIMS software. | There are some references the format is a Corel Flow image format, but no evidence to support. Also not to be confused with BMF format used as a materials/meta format for skins in the SIMS software. | ||
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| + | Starting in Gallery 2, Corel used a .GAL format to reference groups of ClipArt. This OLE container referenced multiple .CMX or .CCX files and their thumbnails. | ||
==File Identification== | ==File Identification== | ||
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==Software== | ==Software== | ||
* [https://archive.org/details/Corel_Gallery_10000_Cliparts_for_Win31 Gallery Software and Sample files] | * [https://archive.org/details/Corel_Gallery_10000_Cliparts_for_Win31 Gallery Software and Sample files] | ||
| + | * [https://archive.org/details/cg1000000disk01 Gallery 3 Software and Sample files] | ||
* [https://www.xnview.com/en/ XnView software] | * [https://www.xnview.com/en/ XnView software] | ||
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* [https://twitter.com/Clipart1994bot Twitter Gallery 1994 feed] | * [https://twitter.com/Clipart1994bot Twitter Gallery 1994 feed] | ||
* [https://web.archive.org/web/19961219021934/http://www.corel.com/news/1995/march/march6.htm Corel Ships Corel GALLERY 2] | * [https://web.archive.org/web/19961219021934/http://www.corel.com/news/1995/march/march6.htm Corel Ships Corel GALLERY 2] | ||
| + | * [https://web.archive.org/web/19990203013033/http://www.corel.com/news/1998/august/1million.htm Corel First to Market with One Million Images (Gallery 3)] | ||
[[Category:Corel]] | [[Category:Corel]] | ||
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Revision as of 18:01, 24 July 2019
Corel Gallery was vector clipart product released by Corel around 1993-94. The first version came loaded with 10,000 clipart files in the BMF format on the PC and the PICT format on the Macintosh. The proprietary BMF format meant you had to used the included Gallery software to then copy & paste into other applications or export into another format for use in your other documents. Later versions of Gallery used .CCX or .CMX for the ClipArt format.
There are some references the format is a Corel Flow image format, but no evidence to support. Also not to be confused with BMF format used as a materials/meta format for skins in the SIMS software.
Starting in Gallery 2, Corel used a .GAL format to reference groups of ClipArt. This OLE container referenced multiple .CMX or .CCX files and their thumbnails.
File Identification
BMF files headers all begin with ascii "@CorelBMF Corel Corporation"
