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CHAPTER 1
What’s New in
CorelDRAW X5?
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CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide is divided into nine parts plus two online Bonus
Chapters and an ... designed CorelDRAW X5
Official Guide Download icon.
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INTRODUCTION
Bear with me as you read this book. Like any ongoing piece of literature, CorelDRAW X5
The ... faster than using an online
search engine.
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Part I starts you off with the new features in CorelDRAW X5, a must-read for users
who’ve made the upgrade. In particular, Chapter 1 is a tutorial-based...
... 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 ... Shape tool.
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FIGURE 1-1 The new B-Spline drawing tool is like having a traditional French curve at your
disposal in CorelDRAW.
B-Spline tool
Float control ... 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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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 ... was originally composed in Photoshop CS 5,
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FIGURE 1-6 Work with Photoshop layers in CorelDRAW as easily as done in Adobe
programs.
New Document Palette
Wouldn’t ... thumbnail onto the page. CorelDRAW copies the content, and presto, your
composition is hours ahead of any other method for adding content to a composition.
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FIGURE...
... should feel at home working in CorelDRAW; this chapter shows you where
everything is, and how you can make it suit your work style.
The CorelDRAWX5 Workspace
CorelDRAW X5 has been carefully revamped ... nudge
distances
If you’re new to CorelDRAW or just new to this version, you will want to take a look at
the roadmap to follow, and get a handle on CorelDRAW s interface.
CorelDRAW X5 s Application Window
The ... the top 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...
... CorelDRAW.
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Color Palette Options button
The toolbox is a component of the application window and is where you’ll find all the tools
in CorelDRAW X5. CorelDRAW ... the 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 ... 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...
... palettes in
X5; take a guided tour of CorelDRAW s resources right around the page.
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If these boxes are checked (they are by default), every time you start CorelDRAW ... data into and out of CorelDRAW.
Download and extract all the files from the Chapter03.zip archive to follow the
tutorials in this chapter.
CorelDRAW X5 s Welcome Screen
When CorelDRAW opens, the ... some
interesting and useful CorelDRAW additions. You can choose different-sized icon views
of documents, and CorelDRAW files do indeed display graphical thumbnails of your saved
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... templates that came with CorelDRAW. Additional templates are
found on the CorelDRAW DVD and on CorelDRAW. com.
Some of the templates use typefaces you might not have installed from the
CorelDRAW CD. If ... locate and proceed with your work after a mishap.
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If CorelDRAW closes unexpectedly, the next time you open CorelDRAW, the File
Recovery dialog prompts you to ... created.
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Pantone and Basic Font-Matching
Font-matching sounds good in theory, and in the Font Substitution For Missing Fonts
dialog, you have the option to let CorelDRAW...
... are completely
inappropriate for CorelDRAW to import. For example, you own a 3D modeling
program and want to use a model you’ve created in a CorelDRAW page. CorelDRAW
has no 3D tools, but it ... Click OK to close the Options dialog.
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Drag icon to add it to a toolbar.
Importing and Exporting Files
CorelDRAW s Import and Export filter collection ... your CorelDRAW document’s color
profile. This is a much better option; see “Create a New Document that Suits You”
for the reason why and the color conversion CorelDRAW uses.
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Convert the CorelDRAW...
... using CorelDRAW (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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comprehensive. Of the importable file types, Corel provides support for all its own formats,
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FIGURE ... if you choose this, CorelDRAW
informs you that the photo has been tagged by its creator. If you choose a file type not
supported by CorelDRAW, such as an MP3 audio file, CorelDRAW lets you know...
... original does in CorelDRAW,
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rtists who have embraced digital media enjoy not only new tools, but also new ways
to look at our artwork. Because your CorelDRAW designs ... However, CorelDRAW s color simulation of real-world
color output is excellent, and “close” is far better than “none” when it comes to
proofing printed material on your screen.
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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,...
... to open the pop-up menu instead.
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Customizing View Shortcuts
Many of the Zoom and Hand tool commands in CorelDRAW have preassigned
shortcut keys that ... 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 magnified
CorelDRAW document.
Zoom in (command)
Zoom ... 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...
... become part of the master page structure. Any objects on a master page
appear on all pages. For details on working with master pages and master layers, see
the next section.
112 CorelDRAWX5 The ... can edit across layers in CorelDRAW. Create a
new file that has objects on, let’s say, three layers, to better learn through example about the
editing and view states of CorelDRAW layers. Open the ... 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...
... 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 CorelDRAWX5 Official Guide ... 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 you can access from the ... shown here. The
polygon looks very much like a 16-tooth gear now, doesn’t it?
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FIGURE 5-2 When you add a node to a polygon object, additional nodes...
... finished 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 ... look, but you’re
not done yet.
2. Click the Extrusion Lighting button on the property bar.
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FIGURE 5-5 Use the Extrude Rotation feature onscreen to make the gear ... it toward the From
color marker to emphasize the To color in the fill, and vice versa.
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FIGURE 5-3 Use the Interactive Fill tool to embellish your illustration.
Color...
... to be satisfactory with
the test print, do it for real with the T-shirt transfer paper.
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With the exception of that all-night pizzeria around the corner, all ... safe and didn’t dent a fender, and
the best part is, you get to pocket the keys. You’re going to need them when you take this
high-performance Model X5 out on your own and take the bends and curves ... keyboard arrow keys. This technique can provide precise editing of the
envelope shape.
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FIGURE 5-7 Make an envelope with custom properties from the default envelope.
Select...