Corel CorelDRAW X8 User Guide Draw Operation Manual EN
User Manual: corel Corel Draw - X8 - Operation Manual Free User Guide for Corel Draw Software, Manual
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- Cover
- Contents
- Getting started
- Installing CorelDRAW Graphics Suite
- Corel accounts and services
- What’s new in CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X8?
- Learning resources
- Starting and setting up
- CorelDRAW basics
- Understanding vector graphics and bitmaps
- Starting and opening drawings
- Scanning images
- Working with multiple drawings
- Undoing, redoing, and repeating actions
- Zooming, panning, and scrolling
- Previewing drawings
- Choosing viewing modes
- Working with views
- Saving drawings
- Working with locked files
- Backing up and recovering files
- Adding and accessing drawing information
- Closing drawings
- Exploring basic tasks
- CorelDRAW workspace tour
- Finding and managing creative tools and content
- Lines, shapes, and outlines
- Working with lines, outlines, and brushstrokes
- Drawing lines
- Drawing calligraphic, pressure-sensitive, and preset lines
- Formatting lines and outlines
- Adding arrowheads to lines and curves
- Copying, converting, and removing outlines
- Closing multiple line segments
- Applying brushstrokes
- Spraying objects along a line
- Drawing connector and callout lines
- Drawing dimension lines
- Using pressure-sensitive pens and devices
- Drawing shapes
- Shaping objects
- Using curve objects
- Selecting and moving nodes
- Manipulating segments
- Copying and cutting segments
- Adding, removing, joining, and aligning nodes
- Using node types
- Transforming nodes
- Breaking the path of curve objects
- Mirroring changes in curve objects
- Skewing and stretching objects
- Smudging and smearing objects
- Roughening objects
- Smoothing objects
- Shaping objects by attracting or pushing away nodes
- Applying distortion effects
- Adding twirl effects
- Shaping objects by using envelopes
- Cropping and erasing objects
- Trimming objects
- Filleting, scalloping, and chamfering corners
- Welding and intersecting objects
- Creating PowerClip objects
- Working with lines, outlines, and brushstrokes
- Objects, symbols, and layers
- Working with objects
- Selecting objects
- Transforming objects
- Copying, duplicating, and deleting objects
- Creating objects from enclosed areas
- Creating a boundary around selected objects
- Using object coordinates to draw and modify objects
- Copying object properties, transformations, and effects
- Cloning objects
- Positioning objects
- Aligning and distributing objects
- Applying object hinting
- Snapping objects
- Using dynamic guides
- Using alignment guides
- Changing the order of objects
- Sizing and scaling objects
- Rotating and mirroring objects
- Using the Object Properties docker to modify objects
- Grouping objects
- Combining objects
- Splitting objects
- Locking objects
- Finding and replacing objects
- Hiding and displaying objects
- Constraining objects
- Inserting bar codes
- Inserting and editing QR codes
- Working with layers
- Working with symbols
- Linking and embedding objects
- Managing projects
- Working with objects
- Color, fills, and transparencies
- Working with color
- Filling objects
- Changing the transparency of objects
- Managing and sharing fills and transparencies
- Using color management
- Understanding color management
- Getting started with color management in CorelDRAW
- Installing, loading, and embedding color profiles
- Assigning color profiles
- Converting colors to other color profiles
- Choosing color-conversion settings
- Soft proofing
- Working with color management presets
- Working with color management policies
- Managing colors when opening documents
- Managing colors when importing and pasting files
- Managing colors for print
- Using a safe CMYK workflow
- Managing colors for online viewing
- Special effects
- Text
- Adding and manipulating text
- Importing and pasting text
- Adding artistic text
- Adding paragraph text
- Adding columns to text frames
- Combining and linking paragraph text frames
- Aligning text by using the baseline grid
- Selecting text
- Finding, editing, and converting text
- Shifting, rotating, mirroring, and flipping text
- Moving text
- Wrapping text
- Fitting text to a path
- Inserting special characters, symbols, and glyphs
- Embedding graphics
- Working with legacy text
- Formatting text
- Choosing typefaces and fonts
- Formatting characters
- Changing text color
- Kerning a range of characters
- Changing text case
- Working with OpenType features
- Adjusting character and word spacing
- Adjusting line and paragraph spacing
- Adding bullets to text
- Inserting drop caps
- Changing character position and angle
- Aligning text
- Adding tabs and indents
- Working with text styles
- Hyphenating text
- Inserting formatting codes
- Displaying nonprinting characters
- Working with text in different languages
- Managing fonts
- Using writing tools
- Adding and manipulating text
- Templates and styles
- Working with templates
- Working with styles and style sets
- Creating styles and style sets
- Applying styles and style sets
- Editing styles and style sets
- Managing default object properties
- Exporting and importing style sheets
- Assigning keyboard shortcuts to styles or style sets
- Finding objects that use a specific style or style set
- Breaking the link between objects and styles or style sets
- Working with color styles
- Pages and layout
- Working with pages and layout tools
- Working with tables
- Adding tables to drawings
- Selecting, moving, and navigating table components
- Inserting and deleting table rows and columns
- Resizing table cells, rows, and columns
- Formatting tables and cells
- Working with text in tables
- Converting tables to text
- Merging and splitting tables and cells
- Manipulating tables as objects
- Adding images, graphics, and backgrounds to tables
- Importing tables in a drawing
- Bitmaps
- Working with bitmaps
- Converting vector graphics to bitmaps
- Importing bitmaps
- Cropping bitmaps
- Changing the dimensions and resolution of bitmaps
- Straightening bitmaps
- Correcting perspective distortions
- Using Digimarc watermarks to identify bitmaps
- Removing dust and scratch marks from bitmaps
- Applying special effects in bitmaps
- Working with colors in bitmaps
- Using the Image Adjustment Lab
- Adjusting color and tone
- Using the Tone Curve filter
- Transforming color and tone
- Editing bitmaps with Corel PHOTO-PAINT
- Working with bitmap color modes
- Tracing bitmaps and editing traced results
- Working with RAW camera files
- Working with bitmaps
- Printing
- Printing basics
- Preparing files for print service providers
- Preparing a print job for a print service provider
- Working with imposition layouts
- Printing printers’ marks
- Maintaining OPI links
- Printing color separations
- Working with color trapping and overprinting
- Specifying In-RIP trapping settings
- Printing to film
- Preparing banners for printing
- Working with a print service provider
- Web graphics
- File formats
- Importing and exporting files
- Exporting to PDF
- Exporting documents as PDF files
- Including hyperlinks, bookmarks, and thumbnails in PDF files
- Reducing the size of PDF files
- Working with text and fonts in PDF files
- Specifying an encoding format for PDF files
- Specifying a viewing option for EPS files
- Specifying color management options for exporting PDF files
- Setting security options for PDF files
- Optimizing PDF files
- Viewing preflight summaries for PDF files
- Preparing PDF files for a print provider
- Working with office productivity applications
- Supported file formats
- Adobe Illustrator (AI)
- Adobe Type 1 Font (PFB)
- Windows Bitmap (BMP)
- OS/2 Bitmap (BMP)
- Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM)
- CorelDRAW (CDR)
- Corel Presentation Exchange (CMX)
- Corel PHOTO-PAINT (CPT)
- Corel Symbol Library (CSL)
- Cursor Resource (CUR)
- Microsoft Word (DOC, DOCX, or RTF)
- Microsoft Publisher (PUB)
- Corel DESIGNER (DES, DSF, DS4, or DRW)
- AutoCAD Drawing Database (DWG) and AutoCAD Drawing Interchange Format (DXF)
- Encapsulated PostScript (EPS)
- PostScript (PS or PRN)
- GIF
- JPEG (JPG)
- JPEG 2000 (JP2)
- Kodak Photo CD Image (PCD)
- PICT (PCT)
- PaintBrush (PCX)
- Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF)
- HPGL Plotter File (PLT)
- Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
- Adobe Photoshop (PSD)
- Corel Painter (RIF)
- Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
- Adobe Flash (SWF)
- TARGA (TGA)
- TIFF
- Corel Paint Shop Pro (PSP)
- TrueType Font (TTF)
- Visio (VSD)
- WordPerfect Document (WPD)
- WordPerfect Graphic (WPG)
- RAW camera file formats
- Wavelet Compressed Bitmap (WI)
- Windows Metafile Format (WMF)
- Additional file formats
- Recommended formats for importing graphics
- Recommended formats for exporting graphics
- General notes on importing text files
- Customizing and automating
- Reference