Still - pretty nifty! In this case, I only wanted to show the dialog box, not the result so it's OK.You can save a document as a PDF file. I have yet to find anything I could do to such an object that I couldn't do with the original bitmap. It's more for line art and logos.If you were to look closely at the conversion of the bitmap you would find that it has create hundreds (thousands?) of arbitrary regions which it has filled with different colors. I should mention that the kind of bitmap I have selected here is probably not going to make a good object. Usually you will want to delete the original image and remove the background but there are times when that’s not what you want. The other two things you should play with are detail and smoothing. Ideally, you simply select whatever type of bitmap it is. The first is what kind of art you start with. Centerline and outline give you various choices (see image). Outline trace tries to find the outline of your bitmap. It’s good for a bitmap that is of a line drawing where you want to convert the line drawing to a vector object. Centerline trace tries to find the centerline of your bitmap and removes the rest. Quicktrace will convert a bitmap to a vector object without asking any questions. You access these tools by right clicking on a bitmap and selecting the tool you want to use (see image). The most useful thing about this is that you can move your drawing to another computer that doesn’t have all the fonts installed and your drawing will still work because the text isn’t text and therefor no longer requires any particular font! There are also various tricks you can do with a collection of curves that don’t work on text.Ĭonverting bitmaps to objects is a lot more complicated but CorelDraw has a collection of tools which do a pretty good job. If you take your text and convert it to curves it stops being text (which is a special kind of object) and becomes just shapes. Text is a whole tutorial by itself but I will mention just one thing that is important and not obvious: “convert to curves”. So you either have to do the settings before you type anything or go back and select all your text and change the settings. Note that if there is no text selected then the settings apply to future text. Once you select the tool some settings appear at the top of the page which allows you to set the font and the size and various other attributes of the text. The text tool (11th tool on the left, looks like the letter A) allows you to write text (see image).
Again, if you are using this file at techshop and you have version X6 you want to save it as a "coreldraw presentation exchange format 5.0". If you want to save a different file type you would use file->save as and use the “save as type” pull down to select what type of file you want. Once you’ve specified the file name you can use ctrl-S or click on the disk icon at the top of the page or use file->save. To save a document you can use file->save as. This means that all the locations on the page have a negative Y value. Keep in mind that the horizontal ruler increases to the right but the vertical ruler increases in the up direction. You should also “zero” your rulers by clicking on the corner where the 2 rulers meet and dragging it to the corner of the page (see image). If you are using a laser etcher, you should set these to 24”x18”. Next to that pull-down there are 2 boxes with horizontal and vertical dimensions of the page. Pull it down and select “custom” (see image). At the upper left side there is a drop down that might say “letter” or “broadsheet” or “custom”. There is a rectangle on the screen with a drop shadow behind it. In this dialog box you can set the name of the document and various other things but for now just say “OK”. This will cause a dialog box (see image). To create a new document you can do file->new or ctrl-n or you can click on the icon in the extreme upper left corner of the window, just below the “file” menu. When you first open CorelDraw there may be one or more dialog boxes which you probably want to just close.
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