I am starting this thread for the purpose of providing tips on the use of Corel Draw. Everybody who has ways of using CD and wants to share them please contribute without waiting for prompts.
I am starting this thread for the purpose of providing tips on the use of Corel Draw. Everybody who has ways of using CD and wants to share them please contribute without waiting for prompts.
Mike Null
St. Louis Laser, Inc.
Trotec Speedy 300, 80 watt
Gravograph IS400
Woodworking shop CLTT and Laser Sublimation
Dye Sublimation
CorelDraw X5, X7
Use the align shortcuts
For example if you draw a big circle and a smaller square , you select both and just type E and C and the square will be aligned dead centre within the circle.
The object you select first will be the one to "move" , IE if you select the Sq first , the circle will be static and the sq will centre in it
There is also P (align all selected object to centre of page) , T (align the Sq to the top of the circle) B(bottom), L(left) and R(Right)
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I got this link from another posting on the Creek a day or so back. There are a lot of good tutorial videos here...
http://coreldrawtips.com/index.html
Dave J
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I don't know this guy and I got turned on to this site by probably someone from SMC. But alot of what he does will work with what we do. He's posted some new things since last year if it's been that long since some of you have looked at it.
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=...ez&view=videos
I've just found out he has his own CorelDraw Tips website now.
http://coreldrawtips.com/
Anthony
Last edited by Anthony Welch; 01-24-2009 at 11:51 AM. Reason: assing another link
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Anthony Welch
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Very good link. I haven't seen anybody as good as Alex.
Mike Null
St. Louis Laser, Inc.
Trotec Speedy 300, 80 watt
Gravograph IS400
Woodworking shop CLTT and Laser Sublimation
Dye Sublimation
CorelDraw X5, X7
you can do math in most of the boxes
as in let's say you draw a square and it's a weird number, x = 2.37", Y = 2.37 and then later you decide to make the x 3/16" larger, you would just type in to the box 2.37" +3/16 then hit the Enter key.
I like having 0, 0 inches on the rulers be at the top left of the page instead of at the bottom left. You can relocate 0, 0 by click and drag on the dashed corner thing at the intersection of the ruler gauges (up in the top left corner of the working area of the page).
Last edited by Tom Bull; 01-25-2009 at 10:18 AM.
When changing dimensions for an object or page, in the dimension box, instead of entering the decimal equivalent of a fraction, just enter the fraction in regular math format i.e. 7/8. You will have to enter a space after the whole number.
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Instead of constantly zooming in and out.....click on Window|New Window and then tile the two windows......you will then have two views of the same document and changes in one will be seen in real time in the other.
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You can also zoom in and out by rolling the mouse wheel..
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Dave J
Forums: Where all too often, logic is the first casualty.
Dave
In my X3 the area where the pointer is is magnified.
Mike Null
St. Louis Laser, Inc.
Trotec Speedy 300, 80 watt
Gravograph IS400
Woodworking shop CLTT and Laser Sublimation
Dye Sublimation
CorelDraw X5, X7
Hi all,
Does anyone know how to get Corel to share fonts with iMac via Parallels. I have a ton of fonts on the iMac which I cannot access in Corel and really need to.
Thanks in advance.
John
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