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Lesson 2: C o r e l D R AW To o l b o x
Lesson 3: Creating N e w D r aw i n g Lesson 4: Grids, Ru l e r s a n d Guidelines Lesson 5: Zooming and Panning Lesson 6: Previewing a D r aw i n g
Use of CorelDRAW
Poster art; high contrast graphic Simple architectural plans Line drawings Product designs Business graphics Graphic illustrations Traditional logos with sharp and crisp edge
HISTORY OF CORELDRAW
In 1987, Corel hired software engineers Michel Bouillon and Pat Beirne to develop a vector-based illustration program to bundle with their desktop publishing systems. That program, CorelDraw, was initially released in 1989. CorelDraw 1 .x and 2.x runs under Windows 2.x and 3.0. CorelDraw 3.0 came into its own with Microsoft's release of Windows 3.1 . CDR file format is a proprietary file format developed by Corel Corporation and primarily used for vector graphic drawings. There is no publicly available CDR file format specification . The latest version of CorelDRAW currently is CorelDRAW X5.
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Drawing page - The rectangular area inside the drawing window. It is the printable area of your work area.
Ruler s - Used to determine the size and position of objects in a drawing. Standard toolbar - A detachable bar that contains shor tcuts to menu and other commands, such as opening, saving and printing. Proper ty bar - A detachable bar with commands that relate to the active tool or object.
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10. Document palette - A palette specific to the current open document. 11. Navigator - A button at the lower -right corner that opens a smaller display to help you move around a drawing. 12. Document navigator - The area at the bottom lef t of the application window that contains control s for moving between pages and adding pages. 13. Status bar - Contains information about object proper ties such as type, size, color, fill and resolution. The status bar also shows the current mouse position.
PICK TOOL SHAPE EDIT TOOL FLYOUT CROP TOOL FLYOUT HAND/ZOOM TOOL FLYOUT FREE HAND TOOL FLYOUT SMART TOOL FLYOUT
RECTANGLE TOOL FLYOUT ELLIPSE TOOL FLYOUT OBJECT TOOL FLYOUT BASIC SHAPES TOOL FLYOUT TEXT TOOL TABLE TOOL
Explore those flyout tools and it will show you the hidden tools that can help you with your drawing. TIP: Do you want to know each tools name and function. Just simply mouse over with each tool and a yellow box will tell.
Click File, Save or Save As. Choose a drive and folder where you want to save your drawing from the Save In list box. Type a name in the File Name box. Click Save.
Click File, Save. Click the Save button on the menu bar.
By default CorelDRAW X5 has A4 as its page size, but you can change it to other preset page size (e.g. Letter).
Page Orientation
Portrait the default page orientation. The vertical dimension is greater than horizontal dimension. Landscape the horizontal dimension is greater than the vertical dimension.
Layout Style
USING RULERS
To Reposition the Rulers
Do one of the following:
1. Hold down SHIFT, and drag the ruler to a new position. 2. Hold down SHIFT, and drag the ruler intersection point to move both rulers simultaneously.
USING GRIDS
To Display Grids:
Click View from Menu Bar. Click Grid.
You can also set your grid as lines or dots in Options window.
USING GUIDELINES
To add a Horizontal or Vertical guideline using the mouse
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Click the Pick tool. Click the Horizontal or Vertical ruler. Drag the guideline to the Drawing Window. To position a guideline using the mouse Select the guideline with the Pick tool. Drag the guideline to a new position.
To select guideline, just click on it using Pick Tool. A selected guideline is in red color, while it is blue if not selected. Just hit DELETE key on your keyboard to delete a selected guideline.
Zoom Levels
Zoom In
PREVIEWING A DRAWING
To Set the Full-Screen Preview View Quality
1. 2. 3. Click Tools, Options. In the list of categories, click Workspace, Display. Enable one of the following: Use Normal View button, to specify the Normal view quality Use Enhanced View button, to specify the Enhanced view quality Use Enhanced View button and the Show PostScript Fills In Enhanced View check box, to display PostScript Fills
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Select the objects you want to preview. Click View, and enable the Preview Selected Only command.