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CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide is divided into nine parts plus two online Bonus
Chapters ... designed CorelDRAW X5
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INTRODUCTION
Bear with me as you read this book. Like any ongoing piece of literature, CorelDRAW X5
The Official ... me with answers to technical questions during the beta cycle
right up to the release version of X5. The sort of candid backs-and-forths we
exchanged in email were productive, refreshing, and ultimately...
... photorealistic drawing
of natural shapes, the enhanced Mesh fill tool in version X5 is your ticket.
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FIGURE 1-3 Work with the Mesh fill tool to make color and transparency ... to version X5 is the B-Spline tool for drawing perfectly smooth curves. B-splines
are unlike paths produced with the Bézier and other drawing tools; they don’t always have
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FIGURE 1-2 Why settle for plain rectangles when you can fancy up the corners with the new
rectangle features in X5?
Fillet
Scallop
Chamfer
Edit Corners
Together
Relative
Corner
Scaling
Scallop
Fillet
Chamfer
Round-
cornered
polygons
Hold
CTRL...
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As you travel through this book’s examples, you’ll be asked to change certain
CorelDRAW settings, and as a (happy) consequence, your copy of CorelDRAW X5
will no ... Professional
If you’re a new user, or a professional who needs graphics but doesn’t illustrate, X5 bundles
not only outstanding tools to make complex drawing go very simply, but also a handsome
collection ... of ready-to-use artwork. The following sections describe what’s new and what’s
been fortified in X5.
Clip Art and Photographs
The CorelDRAW Graphics Suite DVD comes with over 10,000 drawings and...
... you where
everything is, and how you can make it suit your work style.
The CorelDRAW X5 Workspace
CorelDRAW X5 has been carefully revamped from previous versions to make it easier for
you to find ... and get a handle on CorelDRAW’s interface.
CorelDRAW X5 s Application Window
The application window is mainly what you see when CorelDRAW X5 is open. It is the
stage that surrounds and contains ... right side
of the application window’s title bar closes CorelDRAW X5. Clicking the Minimize button
shows or hides CorelDRAW X5, and clicking the Maximize/Restore button quickly changes
the size...
... easily access the docker you need through the flyout
menu. It’s fairly intuitive stuff.
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FIGURE 2-4 Nested dockers can float; you can resize them and access individual ... color wells (it retracts after you click to make a color selection). At the top of
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Close
Click-drag here.
Floating Property Bar
Double-click to return property ... toolbox is a component of the application window and is where you’ll find all the tools
in CorelDRAW X5. CorelDRAW offers tons of features, but tools are found only on the
toolbox. The toolbox itself...
... by your side as you cruise the menus and palettes in
X5; take a guided tour of CorelDRAW’s resources right around the page.
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If these boxes are checked ... window to another.
To accomplish these basic tasks working with CorelDRAW X5, you have nothing new or
exotic to do. But version X5 has additional functions and options, such as file handling and
data ... under Workspace | General, check the “Show New Document dialog box”
check box.
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Open a new
document
O
ne of the very first things you learn as a new computer...
... few moments you can be assured that
the file looks mostly like it did when created.
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Pantone and Basic Font-Matching
Font-matching sounds good in theory, and in ... WordPerfect or
Xara Xtreme, and older versions of CorelDRAW. For example, CorelDRAW 5 can’t
open an X5 CDR file, but version 5 can open a CMX file. The CMX file format can
hold both bitmap and vector ... applications and for users of previous versions to
open your files in case you saved to version X5.
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Use Bitmap Compression. Bitmaps and bitmap effects in a drawing can really plump
up the final...
... and Saving Templates
You can open any template file that has a .CDT
extension you’ve saved from X5 or from any
previous version for editing, and change its actual
template format and/or its content. ... does not
use Windows’ Clipboard, so your current Clipboard contents remain intact.
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Cut Copy
Paste
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used either to undo or redo single or multiple ... warning you that clearing the Undo list can’t be undone. Having a robust Undo list
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Click to undo/redo last action.
Click to open drop-down menu.
Most recent...
... large JPEGs (over 3 or 4MB) you send to people who only
have dial-up connections.
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in this box, and possibly a subsequent box, depending on the file you choose ... pretty
comprehensive. Of the importable file types, Corel provides support for all its own formats,
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FIGURE 3-9 The Import dialog might trigger a second options box for additional ... (http://
theboutons.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21:creating-
your-own-font-with-coreldraw-x4&catid=14:font-creation&Itemid=428).
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Exporting a Design
1. Let’s assume your client (Elmer) doesn’t want a sea...
... back in 1991,
when the best monitor you could buy was a VGA and you ran Windows 3.x.
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FIGURE 4-2 Draft view provides Uniform color fill views and outline colors, ... better than “none” when it comes to
proofing printed material on your screen.
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Export For Office cannot export multiple pages; it only works with the page ... As a measure to ensure that the export looks like the original does in CorelDRAW,
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rtists who have embraced digital media enjoy not only new tools, but also...
... shortcuts:
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Pan left Press and hold ALT+LEFT ARROW.
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Pan right Press and hold ALT+RIGHT ARROW.
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Controlling Zoom and Pan Tool Behavior
The Options dialog is where you can ... behavior of the right-clicks,
using either tool to open the pop-up menu instead.
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Customizing View Shortcuts
Many of the Zoom and Hand tool commands in CorelDRAW ... but most
users tend to diagonally drag from upper left to lower right of an area.
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FIGURE 4-3 Here are all the property bar options you’ll need to navigate a...
... and to control layer options is by experimenting; the following steps are a guide.
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Show Object Properties Click the Show Object Properties button to set whether
you ... selecting the objects, right-clicking them, and choosing
a command from the pop-up menu.
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4. Double-click the Extra Hand layer title to open its contents. The hand ... descriptive than
“Layer 3” for future reference. Try extra hand, because why not?
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Background is locked.
Layer is hidden.
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Layer Manager View The Layer Manager...
... yet.
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n very few guides to software applications will you read, as early as Chapter 5, “Okay, are
you all ready to get going?” The CorelDRAW X5 Official Guide ... to reposition the “D”.
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Right-click to set outline.
Left-click to remove fill.
Text tool
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Using the Polygon Tool to Design ... in
commerce every day. That’s the concept; read on to learn how to draw gears using a bold
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Welding an Edge to a Typed Character
CorelDRAW has a number of operations...
... illustration looks fine right now, it is fine,
regardless of onscreen guides.
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FIGURE 5-4 The Extrude tool is used to set a third dimension for your object. ... quite intricate in design. The face, conversely, looks a little dim because it’s
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facing away from Light 1. This is not a big design flaw; the face looks appropriate ... art: right-click the No Fill color well on the
Color Palette to remove the outline.
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At any time in the future, you can change the rotation of the extruded shape,...