CorelDRAW - Effects on objects, Working with Text, Importing & Exporting of Object

Effects on objects
Working with Text
Importing & Exporting of Object
- Importing object in a document
- Exporting

Effects on objects

Creating Drop Shadow

. Click the Interactive Drop Shadow Tool.

. Drag on the object.

. You will find a drop shadow behind object as shown below.

. When you add a drop shadow, you can change its perspective, and you can adjust attributes such as color, opacity, fade level, angle, and feathering.

To change or to adjust drop shadow

. Select object.

. Click on Interactive Drop Shadow Tool.

. Do any of the following adjustments on the property bar.

	Drop Shadow Angle contoller box: For adjusting angle of drop

	Drop Shadow Opacity contoller box: For adjusting the opacity of drop shadow.

	Drop Shadow Feather contoller box: For adjusting the feather of drop shadow.

	Drop Shadow Feather direction button: For adjusting the direction of drop shadow feather.

	Drop Shadow Fade contoller box: For adjusting the fade of drop shadow.

Creating Blending Effect

Blending effect creates very attractive drawings in coreldraw. Blending is done by interactive blend tool.

Blending with Interactive Blend Tool.

. Click the Interactive blend tool.

. Select the first object, and drag over the second object.

Figure below showing straight line blend

. If you want to decrease or increase the number of steps and direction of blend go to the property bar and specify the number of blending steps and angle of blending direction.

To change the blend path

. Select a blend.

• Click the Path properties button

. Click the path you want to use for the blend.

Figure showing blend on path.

To detach blend from path

. Click the Path properties button

To Remove blend

. Click on blend objects.

. Click on Clear blend button

Note: You can also remove a selected blend by clicking Effects >Clear blend.

Fill Text with Pattern

Creating patterns and applying them on objects can be considered very creative in designing. Applying patterns on text makes text very attractive to audience also. For applying patterns on text either you should create your own pattern and apply it on text, or you can use the patterns contained in CorelDraw application. CorelDraw application provides Pattern Fill Tool which is used to fill patterns in Text or other objects.

To fill pattern in Text:

• Type the any text using thick font.

• Select Pattern Fill from Fill Tool.

• Try to use different colors in two color pattern fill.

• Remove the outline and check the difference in the result.

Working with Envelop Tool:

Interactive Envelop Tool: is for shaping objects, including lines, artistic text, and paragraph text frames by applying envelopes to them.

Here is an example below of Envelop Tool.

. Type the text, say "MKD". Stretch it to make it bigger. Keep it selected.

. Click the Interactive envelope tool .

. Create an envelope with "single Arc" option in the property bar

. Stretch the center top node to the upward direction.

. The stretch get stretched in the form of single arc.

. You will notice that the node you stretched just now has two arrows along with it in the opposite direction.

. Try to move the arrows using the same cursor in any direction.

. You will notice that it does not move.

. You can move only the node, not those arrows.

. This means you have limited capacity to edit this kind of envelope.

. Now go back to the first step using undo option and apply the envelope using "Unconstrained" mode in the property bar.

. Stretch the same top center node upward and try to move those arrows to any direction using the same cursor.

. This time, you will notice that the arrows have no restrictions and you can move them smoothly to any direction as shown below.

Note: You can also create envelop by clicking Effects > envelop or by pressing Ctrl+F7.

3-D Effect on Object

In this tutorial you will learn how to create 3D objects in coreldraw. 3D objects can be created in CorelDraw with the help of Interactive Extrude Tool.

Interactive Extrude Tool: is for creating objects that appear three-dimensional by creating vector extrusions.

. Select Text Tool. Type something, stretch it to bigger size, and fill some bright color say yellow. Text must have black outline and keep the text selected.

. Click on Interactive Extrude Tool.

. Bring the cursor inside the text. The cursor will change.

. Press and drag the cursor to the top left corner.

. You will notice that the text is converted into 3D.

. Try to drag the cursor in any other direction while you practice this lesson for the second time.

. You can adjust extrude attributes such as color, extude rotation, bevels and lighting .

To change or to adjust extrude attributes

. Select object.

. Click on Interactive Extrude Tool.

. Do any of the following adjustments on the property bar.

	Extrude Rotation button: For adjusting x, y & z angles of extrude direction.
	Extrude color button: For adjusting colors.
	Extrude Bevel button: For adjusting bevel depth and angle of object.
	Extrude Bevel Lightning: For adjusting the lights in bevel of object.

Note: You can also create extrude by clicking Effects > extrude.

Applying Perspective

Perspective effect is supposed to be very important effect in CorelDraw.

Here is an example of perspective effect.

. Type the text "Computer". Stretch it to make it bigger.

. Go to Menu Bar.

. Click on Effects > Add perspective

. Press top point over the letter "C" towards right side (top left point of the perspective).

. Press top point over the letter "r" towards left side (top right point of the perspective).

. This will make the effect, which is tapering towards the top and widened towards the bottom.

. If you have sufficiently compressed the top portion of the word "Computer", you will find the point is displayed in the window, on the page similar to the letter "X" which is called vanishing point, which is situated on the top of the word.

. Now press bottom right point, which is situated, at the bottom of the letter "e" towards the top.

. This will compress the letter "r" and you will get another vanishing point to the right of the letter "r".

. Press the point below "r" more if you still don't get the second vanishing point.

. This way you will get two vanishing points at the same time.

Working with Text

Working with Artistic Text

For any creative advertisement the requirement is to create a text which is attractive and which is very much viewed by the audience. For this graphic designers creates text which is very attractive. Text in designing is very important. For attractive Text CorelDraw provides many tools. CorelDraw provides effects like fit text to path, perspective and contour effect which makes text more attractive and creative.

Creating Artistic Text

When you click on the Text tool in the toolbox, you have two options. You can simply click and start typing, or you can drag to draw a text frame and then start typing. For now, all you have to do is click and type. As you do, the Property bar becomes the Editing Text Property bar. Many of the tools in the Editing Text Property bar are more useful for paragraph text than for artistic text, but some are used with artistic text as well.

After you finish typing text, click on the Pick tool, the arrow at the top of the toolbox. When you click on the Pick tool, your new text will be surrounded with eight small, square black handles. These handles activate whenever you select any object with the Pick tool and change the size and shape of a selected object.

When you select Artistic Text, the Text Property bar becomes active, as shown in Figure below:

The following table explains the Text Property bar tools and lists.

Tool	Name	What It Does
	Position	Identifies (or changes) the position of the object relative to the lower-left corner of the Drawing page, based on the center of the selected object. X is the horizontal location; Y is the vertical location.
	Size	Identifies or changes the exact size of the selected object. X represents the width of the object; Y represents the height of the object.
	Scale Factor	Enables you to resize the height (Y) or width (X) of the selected object proportional to the current size. For example, changing the X setting to 200 doubles the size of the selected text object.
	Nonproportional	When you select this button, Sizingsize changes made to the x-axis Scale Factor spin box do not affect the y-axis, and vice versa.
	Rotation Angle	Identifies and lets you change the angle to which the text object rotates. Ninety degrees will rotate the text 90 degrees counterclockwise.
	Mirror Buttons	The top Mirror button flips the selected text horizontally; the bottom Mirror button flips the selected text vertically.
	Font List	This drop-down menu lets you select fonts to apply to the selected text.
	Font Size List	Assigns font sizes to selected text.
	Bold	Assigns (or turns off) boldface for the selected text.
	Italic	Assigns (or turns off) italic style for selected text.
	Underline	Underlines the text in a selected text object.
	Format Text	Opens the Format Text dialog box.
	Edit Text	Opens the Edit Text dialog box.

. Select Ellipse Tool.

• Draw Circle.

. Type text "MKD. Keep it selected.

. Go to Text > Fit Text to Path

. Click on the path.

. The text swill fit with the shape of the circle we have drawn using Ellipse Tool.

. Select Text "MKD".

. Go To Arrange Menu and select "Break Text a Part"

. Now, type another text "MUSTAKIM"

. Go to Text>Fit Text to Path

. The text will overlap on the previous text.

. Now go on the property bar and do some of the adjustment:

. Press "Place on other side button". It will place the text on the opposite side of the path.

. Increase the Horizontal offset.

. Select option from the vertical placement list.

Applying Fills on Text

. Type the text using thick font.

. Select Texture Fill from Fill Tool.

. Try using different type of textures.

. Go for different types from Texture Library.

. Remove the outline or give different colors to outlines and check the difference in the result.

Text Outline

. Type the text. Fill it with any color.

. Outline color should be different from the fill color.

. Right click on any color in the color palette to apply colored outline.

. Press Outline Tool.

. In the fly out menu click on 2 point outline (Thin).

. The outline is thicker than the default. Try different types of available thickness.

Shadow Effect behind Text

. Open Corel DRAW. Type the text. Try to use thick font if possible.

. Duplicate the text by pressing Ctrl + D

. Fill the backward text with black color and arrange the shadow with pick tool

. Double click on the black Text

. Drag the upper middle point with the cursor towards left. The Process is called skewing. The angular stretching of an object.

. Select the text with Shape tool

. With he help of bottom node move each character separately as shown below

. Repeat the step 5

. Arrange the shadow properly with Shape Tool again. Move them and place then behind the original characters.

. Select Interactive Drop Shadow Tool. Drag the tool on the text slightly.

Working with Paragraph Text

There are three ways to select text for editing, formatting, and/or manipulation. At the object level, clicking a paragraph text frame with the Pick tool selects the entire object. While the frame is selected, any font, color, size, or formatting changes you make are applied to all the text in the frame.

Formatting text with Shape Tool

At the cursor level, you can choose the Text tool (F8), and use either a click-drag mouse action or your keyboard (Shift or Ctrl combined with arrow keys) to select characters and/or words. Cursor-selected text is usually displayed with darker or lighter highlighting (shown below) to distinguish it from non-selected text and to signify the characters are ready for formatting and/or editing.

At the character node level, choosing the Shape tool (F10) while a paragraph text frame is selected displays a white-filled node marker at the lower-left corner of each character in the string. You can click once on a character node to select the character, click-drag to marquee-select characters, or hold Shift while clicking characters to select multiple characters. While a single character is selected, the node markers are displayed in black (shown below).

Using the latter two selection techniques enables you to apply formatting to only those characters that are selected. Using the Shape tool for manipulation, however, enables you to apply vertical baseline or horizontal spacing changes (shown below).

Flow Imported Text into Position

Although you can always type or paste text directly into a text frame, the most ideal way to populate frames is by using the File > Import command. You can import text directly into a specific insertion point in a paragraph text frame. CorelDRAW does this automatically during import if the Text tool is selected and an insertion point is active.

Here's how to do it:

1. Using the Text tool, drag to create your paragraph text frame.

2. Choose File > Import (Ctrl+I) to open the Import dialog box. Use the Browse options to locate and select the text document you want to import, and click OK.

3. In the Importing/Pasting Text dialog box, choose an import preference (shown below). If you choose the Discard Fonts and Formatting option, the imported text will be automatically formatted with the current paragraph text frame style properties.

4. Click OK to import the text. The imported text will automatically be added at your insertion point and flow with the current text in the frame.

Drop Caps Create Quick Graphic Appeal

Using drop caps in a text layout is an ideal way to highlight the starting point of any published work. Drop caps often set the tone and mood for a design and serve as an opportunity to add creative flair to otherwise plain-looking text (shown below).

In the early days of publishing, drop cap positions fell below the baseline of the first line of text in a paragraph, hence the name dropped caps. Past publishing techniques often required complex indenting and tabbing to create this effect. Thankfully, you can apply drop caps almost instantly in CorelDRAW with a few simple clicks. Here's how to do it:

1. Drop caps may only be applied to paragraph text, so you'll need to create and/or select your paragraph text with the Text tool (F8). To do this, drag the cursor diagonally using a click-drag action to create an empty frame, and type or paste your text into the text frame.

2. Apply your paragraph formatting as needed using the property bar options or the newly designed text formatting dockers.

3. To apply a default drop cap at the current settings, click anywhere in the first paragraph of your text with the Text tool, and click the Show/Hide DropCap (Ctrl+Shift+D) button on the property bar (shown below) to toggle the drop cap effect on or off. By default, a drop cap effect is applied at exactly three lines in height using your current font selection. Notice the paragraph text is instantly reformatted as the drop cap is activated.

4. You can customize the height and style of the effect by using the Drop Cap dialog box. With the Text tool cursor still inserted in the first paragraph, choose Text > Drop Cap to open the Drop Cap dialog box (shown below). Toggle the effect on or off by enabling the Use drop cap check box.

5. Click the Preview button in the Drop Cap dialog box to evaluate you current settings, and click OK.

With the Drop Cap dialog box, you can also control the height of the effected character to between 1 and 10 lines of text by adjusting the list box in the Number of lines dropped area. If needed, you can also adjust the Space after drop cap list box to set the spacing measure between your drop cap and the next character in the string. This is useful if the drop cap character constitutes a single word, such as A or I. Use the hanging indent option to force the balance of the text in the paragraph to align with the first character following the drop cap.

Shaping Paragraph Text Frames

Since the frame surrounding your paragraph text is essentially a bounding box, it can be manipulated to virtually any shape you need it to be. The paragraph text frame acts as a container forcing the text inside it to flow within the contours of its shape. Typical text frames are rectangular, but a text frame can take virtually any shape you wish.

The simplest way to reshape a paragraph text frame is by using the envelope effect. With the CorelDRAW drawing tools, create any shape and use it as a template. Once your shape is created, follow these steps:

1. Using the Pick tool, select the paragraph text object you wish to shape.

2. Open the Envelope docker (Ctrl+F7) and click the Add New button (shown below).

3. On the Envelope docker, click the Eyedropper button and use the targeting cursor that appears to click target your shape. A bounding box resembling the shape you targeted will appear over your text frame.

4. Click the Apply button to complete the shaping operation.

5. If you need to return the paragraph text frame to its original rectangular shape, choose Effects > Clear Envelope.

Once your text frame is shaped, it will still behave as any other text frame, complete with sizing handles and linking functions to other text frames (shown below). The shaping potential is virtually unrestricted when it comes to using envelopes for your paragraph text frame.

Add Inline Graphics to Text Frames

If your paragraph text layout is comprised of linked paragraph text frames and you have graphic images that you would like to flow between frames, you're in luck. CorelDRAW supports inserting inline graphics into text. It's a tricky maneuver though, so if you've never worked with inline graphics in the past, this may help.

1. Using the Pick tool, select the object or image you wish to insert into your text frame.

2. Choose Edit > Cut (Ctrl+X) or Edit > Copy (Ctrl+C) to copy the image or object to the clipboard.

3. Using the Text tool, click an insertion point in the paragraph text and enter a full hard return in the text (shown below). This will ensure the inline graphic exists as its own paragraph and doesn't interfere with the spacing of the surrounding text.

4. Choose Edit > Paste (Ctrl+V) to add the image or object from your clipboard into the text frame. Your new inline graphic will now reside on its own separate line (shown below) and flow with the text-even if that means flowing to the next linked paragraph on a different page.

5. Once the graphic is pasted into your paragraph text, you'll notice its size has likely changed dramatically. This is because the graphic now occupies the same space as a full character size. To change the size of the graphic, highlight it with the Text tool and use the property bar options to adjust its character size (shown below).

6. Adjust the paragraph spacing above and below the graphic and/or the line spacing by using options in the new Paragraph Text docker which you can access by choosing Text > Paragraph Formatting.

Dress Up Your Point-Form Lists

If the document you're creating includes point form lists, you may find simply indenting the text does little to bring emphasize to the concepts being presented. A long-standing solution to this is to add bullets: text symbols that precede each item in lists of indented text.

Like drop caps, manually formatting bulleted lists can be a tedious and frustrating experience. Although previous versions have offered solutions to this, CorelDRAW provides new bullet effects that are more elegant to use and include more options for greater control than in the past.

You can apply virtually any character you wish as bullets (shown below) and you can format the bullet font and size independently of the formatting applied to the paragraph text. You can also precisely fine-tune the vertical and horizontal bullet position.

To explore this time-saving feature, follow these steps:

1. Using the Text tool, highlight the paragraph text to which you want to apply the bullet effect.

2. Choose Text > Bullets to open the Bullets dialog box (shown below) and enable the Use bullets check box to activate the feature. At this point, click the Preview button so you can evaluate the settings you are about to apply.

3. In the Appearance area of the Bullets dialog box, choose a font for your bullet characters from the Font list box. Ideally, select a font that includes symbols that have visual impact. Once the font is selected, choose a bullet character from the Symbol list box. The bullet effect will immediately be previewed.

4. If necessary, increase the size of your bullet symbol by using the Size list box. Depending on the size you choose, you may also need to adjust the vertical and/or horizontal position of the bullet symbol. This typically involves lowering the Baseline Shift value and reducing the default Bullet to text spacing.

5. To align the bulleted text paragraph flush left following the bullet, enable the Use hanging indent style for bullet lists check box.

6. With your bullet effect complete, click OK to accept the changes and close the dialog box.

Try this tip: click the Show/Hide Bullet button (Ctrl+M) on the property bar to toggle the effect on or off. Your selected bullet font and symbol choice will be preserved, although certain customized baseline shift and spacing options may be affected.

Formatting Text

You can change text font for an entire selected text object, or you can format only certain characters in an artistic text object.

For formatting text:

. Select a text object.

. Click on the Text tool; an insertion point cursor appears. You can drag to select part or all your text to apply new formatting.

. After you select the text to which you want to apply formatting, pull down the Font List and select a new font.

. You can assign font size in the same way, by choosing a font size from the Font Size List drop-down menu.

. You can also resize and reshape selected text objects by dragging the handles. When you drag a handle in toward the center of the object, you make it smaller. When you drag out, away from the center, you make the object larger. This technique works with all selected objects in CorelDRAW and works with artistic text as well.

If you drag a corner handle, as shown in figure below, you maintain the proportion between height and width as you resize your object.

If you drag on a side or top handle, you will change not only the size but also the shape (or proportions) of the text, as shown in Figure below:

You can add (or remove) boldface, italics, or underlining to text using the Bold, Underline, and Italic buttons in the Text Property bar. These attributes are not available for all fonts because some fonts are designed to be specifically boldface or to have a light face.

The Format Text dialog box offers more detailed text formatting features. With your text object selected, click on the Format Text tool in the Property bar or choose Text > Format Text from the menu bar. The Format Text dialog box has three tabs. The Font tab allows you to assign fonts and font sizes, as well as other font attributes such as Strikethrough, Overscore, Uppercase (including small caps).

Fig . Format Text Dialog Box

There are two other tabs in the Format Text dialog box. The Align tab provides the same options as the alignment buttons in the dialog box toolbar: None, Left, Center, Right, Full Justify (both margins, if you have enough text to look good stretched margin to margin), and Forced Justify. The Space tab enables you to define spacing between characters (letters), words, and lines in your text. You will often use these tabs to tweak paragraph text where you have many lines of text.

As you experiment with text formatting, you will see the font previewed in the small window at the bottom of the dialog box. When you are satisfied with the appearance of your text, click on the OK button.

Editing and Formatting Text Characters

You can edit text by clicking on the Text tool and then clicking in a text object. The vertical bar cursor represents the insertion point. You can press Delete or Backspace to delete text, or you can type new text at the insertion point. Insert point before the word "Zoo," pressed Backspace three times to delete the word "New," and am typing the word "The."

For more heavy-duty text editing, you'll find the Edit Text dialog box more helpful. Open this dialog box for a selected text object by clicking on the Edit Text button in the Property bar, or by selecting Text | Edit Text from the CorelDRAW menu bar.

The Edit Text dialog box is a miniword processor in a window. You can insert or delete text here. And like many of the latest word processors, the Edit Text dialog box will underline words not found in the dictionary with a wavy red line.

Just as with the fanciest word processors, you right-click on a potentially misspelled word to see a list of possible correct spellings.

Formatting Text Characters

So far, you have learned to apply formatting (including size) to entire text objects. You can also apply formatting to selected characters within a selected text object. An easy place to make these changes is the Edit Text dialog box.

Editing in the Edit Text dialog box.

To apply formatting to selected characters within a text object, select those characters in the Edit Text dialog box, and then apply formatting.

Note: The Edit Text dialog box is not fully WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get). You have to click OK and view the results in the CorelDRAW window to see the exact effect of font attributes assigned to selected text.

Selected text characters can be formatted in the Edit Text dialog box--my favorite shortcut to get there is Ctrl+Shift+T.

If you want more power to assign detailed formatting to selected text, click on the Format Text button in the Edit Text dialog box. Font attributes assigned in this way will apply only to the selected text. When you have edited and assigned formatting to any text, click on OK in the Edit Text dialog box. The results will be visible in the CorelDRAW window.

Moving Text Block/Rotating

Rotating, Sizing, and Locating Text

A Text can be resized, rotated by dragging object handles. You can also move a selected object by dragging the X that appears in the middle of a selected object. To rotate text, choose the Pick tool (the one at the top of the Toolbox) and click on an object twice. As you do, the handles change from small black squares to curved arrows, as shown in Figure below.

Drag the rotation handles in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction to rotate the selected object.

You can also precisely define the size, location, and rotation using the Property bar. To flip text to the left, enter 90 in the Rotation Angle box in the Property bar. The results are illustrated in Figure below:

Note: You can edit or reformat rotated text. It can get a little tricky to edit rotated text in the Drawing window because the text editing cursor does not rotate with the text. You might find it easier to edit rotated text in the Format Text or Edit Text dialog boxes.

To precisely locate or size a text object, you can enter coordinates or dimensions in the Position or Size boxes in the Property bar.

Assigne a size of exactly 1" by 9" and located the text object 1" from the left side of the page and 5.5" from the bottom. The location coordinates are defined from the center of the object.

Importing & Exporting of Object

Importing object in a document

Import is not to be confused with opening a file. When you import a file, you bring it into your current document. You do not affect the original import file in any way, no matter which changes you make - in effect, you borrow a copy to use in your document. When you open a file and make changes, those changes are saved. You can import an astonishing variety of file types into CorelDraw, with many fully editable.

For importing Go to File Menu. Click on Import. A dialog box will appear on your screen as shown below.

. Choose the folder where your bitmap is stored.

. Click on Options

. If you want to link the image to the drawing, enable bitmap externally check box

. Click Import.

. Click where you want to place the image.

Note: Ensure that All file formats is chosen from the Files of type list box when you import an image.

Importing Adobe Illustrator files to Coreldraw

You can import all AI files including Adobe Illustrator CS 2 files. For files saved in Adobe Illustrator CS or higher, text can be imported as text or curves if the files are PDF-compatible. If a file is not PDF-compatible, you first need to convert all text to outlines by using the Type > Create Outlines command in Adobe Illustrator for text to be imported.

1. Click File > Import.

2. Locate the folder in which the file is stored.

3. Choose AI - Adobe Illustrator from the Files of type list box.

4. Click the filename, and click Import.

If you are importing a PDF-compatible file containing text, the Import PDF dialog box appears. In the Import text as area, enable the Text or Curves option. If you are not sure which option to choose, see To import a PDF file.

When you are importing text as text, the Font substitution for missing fonts dialog box appears if you don't have all the fonts used in the file installed. Choose the settings you want, and click OK.

5. When the import cursor appears, do one of the following:

. Click the drawing page to maintain original file and position top-left corner where you click.

. Click and drag on the drawing page to resize the file. The import cursor displays the dimensions of the resized file as you drag on the drawing page.

. Press Enter to center the file on the drawing page.

The import cursor shows you the filename and dimensions of the file you are about to import.

Adobe Illustrator graphics are imported into the program as a group of objects. Click Arrange > Ungroup to manipulate objects in the imported graphic.

To import a PDF file

You can now get the best possible results for text in your PDF documents by choosing to import the text as text or as curves. The following pointers will help you make the right choice:

. When text is imported as text, the font and text are preserved, and the text is fully editable as artistic or paragraph text. However, some effects and formatting may be lost. This option is recommended if you have a PDF file that contains large blocks of text, such as a newsletter, and you want to reformat the text or add text content.

. When text is imported as curves, the appearance of the text, including all effects applied to it, are preserved, and each letter is converted to a curve object. With this option, the text formatting features can no longer be used to edit the text. If you have a PDF file that contains a small amount of text that does not require editing, or if you do not have the fonts used in the PDF file, you should import the text as curves.

. Press Ctrl + I.

. Locate the folder in which the file is stored.

. Choose PDF - Adobe Portable Document Format from the Files of type list box.

. Click the filename, and click Import.

If the file is protected by a password, type a valid password in the Password box.

. In the Import PDF dialog box, choose one of the following options in the Import text as area:

. Text - lets you edit and reformat the text from the PDF file. If any of the fonts used in the PDF file are missing, choose the settings you want in the Font substitution for missing fonts dialog box, and click OK.

. Curves - converts text to curves, letting you maintain the appearance of the original text

The Import PDF dialog box

If you are importing a multipage document, select the pages you want to import, and click OK.

When you are importing a multipage PDF, the Import PDF dialog box expands to let you choose what pages to import.

. When the import cursor appears, click the drawing page.

You can also click and drag to resize the file, or press Enter to place the file in the center of the document.

Exporting

Exporting is saving a copy of your file or object to a particular format to be used by other programs. For example: if you create a logo in CorelDraw, but you would like that logo for use in your Web site, you will have to export to a format that Web browsers can read (GIF or JPG). Your original CorelDraw file cannot be read on the Web. Exporting does not affect your working document in any way. CorelDraw exports to any graphic file type most people will ever need.

You can export any portion of your document as many different types of files. You can export one object, or the whole page. A complete description of what file types available and which attributes can be exported is well outside the scope of this tutorial. In fact, that topic could easily fill an entire book. The important thing to remember though, is that exporting is like translating languages. You are taking CorelDraw language and converting it to a language other programs can understand. When you export, it is important to know where the image will be used.

You can export your drawing and text from coreldraw to other applications like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Macromedia Flash, Ms Word etc. For exporting in other application you should mention save file type extension. For example if you are exporting any image of coreldraw to illustrator you should give AI extension after the file name.

Export: is for exporting file to other formats that can be used to other applications like Adobe illustrator (AI) or GIF format etc.

For Exporting any file

. Go to File Menu and Click on Export.

. A dialog box will appear on the screen as shown below.

. Choose the folder where you want to save the file.

. Type the file name in the filename list box.

. Select the file type format in which you want to save the file ie. PSD, PDF OR EPS format.

. Click Options.

. If you are saving only selected objects than enable Selected Only check box.

. If you are exporting only a single page from the document, enable Export this page only check box.

. Click Export.

Note:

. For exporting any transparent image to photoshop you should export it in EPS format from coreldraw.

. If you are exporting any image as background you should export it in JPEG format.

. If you are exporting any image to flash you should save it in SWF file format.

. If you are exporting any image for web purpose you should save it in GIF or JPEG format in 72 resolution only.

Export for Office: You can export a file so that it is optimized for use with office productivity applications such as Microsoft Word or WordPerfect.

For exporting a file to microsoft office or WordPerfect Office

. Go to File Menu and Click on Export for Office.

. A Dialog Box will appear on the screen as shown below.

. From Export to List Box, choose the following:

. Microsoft Office - lets you set options to meet the different output requirements of Microsoft Office applications

. WordPerfect Office - automatically optimizes the image for WordPerfect Office by converting it to a WordPerfect Graphics file (WPG)

. From the Graphic should be best suited for list box, choose one of the following:

. Compatibility - lets you save the drawing as a bitmap in the Portable Network Graphic (PNG) file format. This preserves the appearance of the drawing when you import it into an office application.

. Editing - lets you retain most of the editable elements in vector drawings by saving the drawing in the Extended Metafile Format (EMF).

. From the Optimized for list box, choose one of the following options: Presentation - lets you optimize the file for outputs such as slide shows or online documents (96 dpi)

. Desktop printing - lets you maintain good image quality for desktop printing (150 dpi)

. Commercial printing - lets you optimize the file for high-quality printing (300 dpi)

. An estimated file size appears in the lower-left corner of the dialog box.

. Click OK.

. Locate the folder in which you want to save the file.

. Type a filename in the Filename list box.

. Click Save.

Export drawing to TIF File

. Select the items you want to export with the Pick Tool.

. Choose File, Export from the Main Menu. Select TIF as the File Type. Choose the name and location for your file. Choose Selected only. Leave Compression Type as Uncompressed. Click Export.

Set Size and Resolution

Choose the size for your file. Size is determined by end use and is not dependent on the original size of the CorelDraw created image. Since CorelDraw is vector based, you can increase or decrease graphic size on export with no quality loss. Choose 1 to 1 or Custom if you need to adjust size. Note: The custom default does not offer proportional sizing. Click on the lock icon beside the size information BEFORE you adjust the size. This locks the proportion.

Set Export Attributes

With the color selection box, choose RGB color (for quality color) or Grayscale (for B&W photo) or Black and White for a black and white image with no gray shading. If you are going to be using the file only as a black and white image, choose this now, since the file size is significantly lower.

Set Export Attributes

Check File Size

Check your file size as you resize or change modes. Small changes can create dramatic adjustments in file size. When working with bitmap images, file size is always a concern. Try for the smallest size that will give the quality you desire by planning ahead and only including the information that you will use, i.e., saving a larger sized image than you use does not improve quality . it simply bloats the file size.

Finish

Click OK and your file will be placed in the folder you specified in the Export window. You can now open your new application and import your TIFF.

Export to GIF

If you are exporting any type of image but a photograph style for the Web, GIF is the best choice. It is one of two common formats that can be used on the Web (JPG is the other). GIF is the only format in common use for the Web that can create transparent backgrounds, a very popular feature. GIF is best when you have large areas of solid color, since the file size will be smaller. GIF images have a maximum of 256 colors, so they are not appropriate for photo type graphics.

Export File Basics

Select the items you wish to export with the Pick Tool. Choose File, Export from the Main Menu. Select GIF as the File Type. Choose the name and location for your file. Choose Selected only.

Set Size and Resolution

Choose the size for your file. Size is determined by end use and is not dependent on the original size of the CorelDraw created image. CorelDraw is vector based, so you can resize a graphic on export with no quality loss. Choose 1 to 1 or Custom if you need to adjust size. Note: The Custom size default does not offer proportional sizing. Click on the lock icon beside the size information BEFORE you adjust the size. This locks the proportion. GIF files are usually set for 72 dpi resolution for Web use.

Set Export Attributes

With the color selection box, choose Paletted (8-bit) or Black and White for a black and white image with no gray shading (Grayscale offers no file size reduction for GIF files). If you are going to be using the file only as a black and white image, choose this now, since the file size is significantly lower. Choose Anti-aliasing unless you are exporting small text. Anti-aliasing smooths edges, but with small text (and some detailed small graphics), the result is fuzzy. Normally, dither is not selected.

Check File Size

Set Transparency

You can set a color to be transparent with a GIF file. Normally this will be the background. Be careful when creating your graphics, since any areas of the image that are the same color as the background will be transparent. Choose the eyedropper and move it to the left screen containing your image. Click on the background color. That color is highlighted in the color list. Click preview to see results. The checked background indicates transparency. (Choose None for no transparency.) Click OK.

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