Corel Corel Draw Graphics Suite - 12 User Guide
CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite 12 User Guide
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Book contents
Table of contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i
Welcome to CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
CorelDRAW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Corel R.A.V.E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Corel PHOTO-PAINT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .351
CorelDRAW Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523
Corel R.A.V.E. Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543
Corel PHOTO-PAINT Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547
Table of contents
Section I: Welcome to CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12
Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12 applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
What’s new in CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Installing and uninstalling applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Changing the language of the user interface and Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Registering Corel products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Updating Corel products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Corel Support Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Documentation conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Getting help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Using CorelTUTOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
VBA Programming Guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Customer feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Other resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
About Corel Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Section II: CorelDRAW
Workspace tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
CorelDRAW terminology and concepts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
CorelDRAW application window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
CorelDRAW workspace tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Getting started in CorelDRAW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
Starting and opening drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Finding and inserting drawing content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Exploring the basic features of CorelDRAW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Working with templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Undoing, redoing, and repeating actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Accessing drawing information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Zooming and panning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
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Previewing a drawing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Backing up and recovering files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Saving drawings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Closing drawings and quitting CorelDRAW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Working with lines, outlines, and brush strokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45
Drawing lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Formatting lines and outlines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Closing multiple line segments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Applying brush strokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Spraying objects along a line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Drawing flow and dimension lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Drawing shapes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63
Drawing rectangles and squares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Drawing ellipses, circles, arcs, and wedges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Drawing polygons and stars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Drawing spirals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Drawing grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Drawing predefined shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Drawing using shape recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Working with objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75
Selecting objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Copying, duplicating, and deleting objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Copying object properties, transformations, and effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Positioning objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Aligning and distributing objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Snapping objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Using dynamic guides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Changing the order of objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Sizing and scaling objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Rotating and mirroring objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Grouping objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Combining objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
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Shaping objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101
Working with curve objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Skewing and stretching objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Smudging objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Roughening objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Applying distortion effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Shaping objects using envelopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Splitting and erasing portions of objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Trimming objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Welding and intersecting objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Blending objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Creating PowerClip objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Working with symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133
Creating, editing, and deleting symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Using symbols in drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Managing collections and libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Sharing symbols between drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Filling objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .141
Applying uniform fills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Applying fountain fills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Applying pattern fills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Applying texture fills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Applying mesh fills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Working with fills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Working with color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .153
Choosing colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Creating custom color palettes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Managing color for display, input, and output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159
Understanding the Color management dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Working with color profiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Choosing advanced color management settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Correcting colors for display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
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Adding three-dimensional effects to objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .169
Contouring objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Applying perspective to objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Creating vector extrusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Creating drop shadows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Changing the transparency of objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .183
Applying transparencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Applying merge modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Using lenses with objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .189
Applying lenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Editing lenses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Working with pages and layout tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Specifying the page layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Choosing a page background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Adding, renaming, and deleting pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Using the rulers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Calibrating the rulers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Setting up the grid. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Setting up guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Setting the drawing scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Working with layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .205
Creating layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Changing layer properties and stacking order. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Moving and copying objects between layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Printing layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Adding and formatting text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .211
Adding and selecting text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Encoding text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Changing the appearance of text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Finding, editing, and converting text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Aligning and spacing text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Shifting and rotating text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
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Moving text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Fitting text to a path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Formatting paragraph text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Combining and linking paragraph text frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Wrapping paragraph text around objects and text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Embedding graphics and adding special characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Managing fonts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .235
Substituting unavailable fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Embedding fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Using Bitstream Font Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Working with bitmaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .239
Converting vector graphics to bitmaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Adding bitmaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Cropping and editing bitmaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Applying special effects to bitmaps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Applying color and tone effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Removing dust and scratch marks from bitmaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Changing color modes in bitmaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .249
Changing the color mode of bitmaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Changing bitmaps to black-and-white images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Creating Web-enabled objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .253
Using preset Internet objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Optimizing bitmaps for the World Wide Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Creating rollovers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Creating Web-compatible text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Working with bookmarks and hyperlinks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Publishing to the Web. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .263
Preparing files and objects for Web publishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Publishing to HTML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
Managing projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .267
Setting up the project database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
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Assigning and copying object data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Viewing an object data summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .271
Printing your work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Laying out print jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Previewing print jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
Commercial printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .277
Preparing a print job for a service bureau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Working with imposition layouts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Printing printer's marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Printing color separations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Specifying In-RIP trapping settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Printing to film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
Publishing to PDF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .291
Saving documents as PDF files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Reducing PDF file size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Preparing PDF files for a service bureau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Optimizing PDF files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
Importing and exporting files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .299
Importing files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Exporting files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
Working with graphic, text, and color styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .307
Creating, applying, and editing graphic or text styles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Creating and applying color styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
From Adobe Illustrator to CorelDRAW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .313
Comparing terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Comparing tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
Section III: Corel R.A.V.E.
Workspace tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .319
Corel R.A.V.E. terminology and concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
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Corel R.A.V.E. application window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
Corel R.A.V.E. toolbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
Getting started in Corel R.A.V.E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .325
How Corel R.A.V.E. works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
Setting the properties of movies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
Animating objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .329
Understanding animation methods and terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Increasing the life span of objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
Tweening objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
Editing and previewing animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .339
Working with timelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
Working with tweens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
Previewing animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Animating text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .345
Tweening text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Creating animated text effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
Section IV: Corel PHOTO-PAINT
Corel PHOTO-PAINT workspace tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .351
Corel PHOTO-PAINT terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
Exploring the application window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
Toolbars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
Toolbox. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
Property bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
Dockers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
Status bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362
Viewing images and obtaining image information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .363
Viewing images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
Zooming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
Obtaining image information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
Working with color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .367
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Choosing colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Creating custom color palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
Changing color modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .373
Changing the color mode of images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
Changing images to the paletted color mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
Bringing images into Corel PHOTO-PAINT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
Opening images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
Importing files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
Loading photos from a digital camera. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
Working with vector graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
Cropping and changing orientation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .381
Cropping images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
Stitching images together . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
Changing image orientation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
Adjusting color and tone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .387
Adjusting image color and tone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
Working with color channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390
Changing image dimensions, resolution, and paper size. . . . . . . . . . . .393
Changing image dimensions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
Changing image resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394
Changing the paper size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
Retouching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .397
Improving scanned images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397
Removing red-eye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398
Removing dust and scratch marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
Cloning image areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
Sharpening images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
Erasing image areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
Smearing, smudging, and blending colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
Working with lenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
Creating lenses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
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Editing lenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
Combining lenses with the image background. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412
Masking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .413
Distinguishing protected and editable areas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
Defining editable areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
Defining editable areas using color information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416
Inverting and removing masks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420
Cutting out image areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420
Applying special effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .423
Working with special effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423
Applying preset styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425
Applying color and tone effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426
Managing plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427
Painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .429
Drawing shapes and lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
Applying brush strokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431
Spraying images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434
Repeating brush strokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436
Using a pressure-sensitive pen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437
Filling images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .439
Applying uniform fills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439
Applying fountain fills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440
Applying bitmap fills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442
Applying texture fills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444
Applying gradient fills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445
Working with objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .447
Creating objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447
Grouping and combining objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450
Modifying objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .453
Transforming objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453
Changing the edges of objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457
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Adding drop shadows to objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460
Creating images for the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .463
Exporting and optimizing images for the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
Creating and editing rollovers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
Saving and closing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .471
Saving images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471
Exporting images to other file formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472
Closing images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474
Managing color for display, input, and output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .475
Working with color profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475
Choosing advanced color management settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477
Correcting colors for display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478
Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .479
Printing your work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479
Laying out print jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480
Previewing print jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481
Section V: Glossary
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .485
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Section I: Welcome to
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12
Welcome
CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite 12 delivers powerful software for graphic design, page
layout, photo editing, and vector animation.
In this section, you’ll learn about
• CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12 applications
• what’s new in CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12
• what’s new in Corel PHOTO-PAINT
• installing and uninstalling applications
• changing the language of the user interface and Help
• registering Corel products
• updating Corel products
• Corel® Support Services
• documentation conventions
• getting Help
• using CorelTUTOR™
• customer feedback
•other resources
• about Corel Corporation
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12 applications
This section describes the major applications included in CorelDRAW Graphics Suite
12.
CorelDRAW
CorelDRAW is an intuitive graphics design application that gives designers a more
enjoyable work experience. CorelDRAW is built and designed to meet the demands of
today’s working designer to create ads or collateral for print or for the Web.
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Corel PHOTO-PAINT
Corel PHOTO-PAINT® is a complete image-editing application that lets you retouch
and enhance photos. Whether you’re correcting red-eye or exposure problems, cutting
out image areas, or creating and publishing images for the Web, Corel PHOTO-PAINT
gives you powerful tools that are fast and easy to use.
Corel R.A.V.E.
Corel R.A.V.E.™ makes it easy to create a wide range of animated graphics — from
animated logos and navigation controls to interactive animated graphics for the Web.
The Corel R.A.V.E. application combines the familiar graphics capabilities and user
interface of CorelDRAW with a powerful yet easy-to-use set of animation features.
What’s new in CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12
The following section outlines what’s new in CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12.
What’s new in CorelDRAW and Corel R.A.V.E.
CorelDRAW and Corel R.A.V.E. include new features and enhancements that will make
your work easier.
Feature Description
Enhanced support for SVG files Allows you to choose a variety of new
options when exporting a drawing to the
SVG file format. You can also embed
information in an SVG file or store
information in externally linked files.
Export for Office (CorelDRAW only) Lets you optimize drawings for export to
Microsoft® Office or WordPerfect® Office
Unicode Allows users to exchange files effortlessly,
regardless of the language or operating
system in which the file was created,
ensuring that text displays correctly
Text encoding Allows users to correct the display of text
created in a language that differs from that
of their operating system
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Feature Description
Dynamic guides Helps you precisely position, align, and draw
objects relative to other objects using snap
points in objects
Smart drawing tool Lets you draw freehand strokes that are
recognized and converted to basic shapes
using the Smart drawing tool
Enhanced snapping Allows you to snap an object to a number of
snap points in a target object
Enhanced text alignment Allows you to align text objects to other
objects using the first text baseline, last text
baseline, or the bounding box
Enhanced Eyedropper and Paintbucket
tools
Virtual segment delete tool Lets you delete portions of objects, called
Improved file format compatibility Gives you improved compatibility with
Improved symbols The Symbol manager docker allows you to
Enhanced sprites (Corel R.A.V.E. only) The Symbol manager docker allows you to
Allows you to copy color, object properties,
effects, and transformations from one object
to another
virtual line segments, that are between
intersections
many industry-standard file formats, such as
Hewlett-Packard® Plotter (PLT),
AutoCAD® Drawing Interchange Format
(DXF), AutoCAD Drawing Database
(DWG), Computer Graphics Metafile
(CGM), Microsoft® Word Document
(DOC), and many more
identify, create, and edit symbols easily. You
can easily import and export symbols using
Corel Symbol Libraries (CSL).
identify, create, and edit sprites easily.
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What’s new in Corel PHOTO-PAINT
Corel PHOTO-PAINT includes new features and enhancements that will make your
work easier.
Feature Description
Export for Office Lets you optimize drawings for export to
Microsoft Office or WordPerfect Office
Multiple language support Allows users to exchange files effortlessly,
regardless of the language or operating
system in which the file was created,
ensuring that text displays correctly
Touch-up brush tool Lets you remove imperfections, such as tears,
scratch marks, and wrinkles, from an image
by blending its textures and colors
Export menu command Provides you with another method for
exporting images to a variety of file formats
Installing and uninstalling applications
The application’s Installer makes it easy to install Corel applications and components.
It lets you
• install any Corel applications included in your software package
• add components to a currently installed application
• refresh files and configurations of currently installed applications
To install an application
1 Close all applications.
2 Insert Disc 1 in the CD drive.
If the installation wizard does not start automatically, click Start on the Windows
taskbar, and click Run. Type D:\Setup, where D is the letter that corresponds to
the CD drive.
3 Follow the instructions in the installation wizard and enable one of the following
options:
• Ty p i c a l — to install the default applications and components
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• Compact — to install the minimum components for the application to operate
• Custom — to choose applications and writing tool components
4 Follow the instructions for installing and registering the application.
To uninstall applications
1 On the Windows taskbar, click Start ` Control Panel.
If your operating system is Windows 2000 or earlier, click Start ` Settings `
Control Panel.
2 Double-click Add/Remove programs.
3 Choose a Corel application from the list, click Change/Remove, and enable the
Remove all option in the dialog box.
If you want to remove all files, including user files, click Change, and enable the
Remove user files checkbox.
If your operating system is Windows 2000 or earlier, click the Remove button.
4 Follow the InstallShield® wizard instructions.
You can choose whether the uninstalling process will remove user files such as
preference, presets, user-created fills, customized files, and so on.
Changing the language of the user interface and Help
If you chose to install an application in more than one language, you can change the
language of the user interface and Help at any time.
To change the language of the user interface and Help
1 Click To o l s ` Options.
2 In the list of categories, click Global.
3 Choose a language from the Select the language for the user interface list box.
If you want to change the language of the user interface and Help as you start the
application, enable the Ask me the next time the software starts check box.
4 Restart the application.
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Registering Corel products
Registering Corel products is important. Registration provides you with timely access
to the latest product updates, valuable information about product releases, and access
to free downloads, articles, tips and tricks, and special offers.
You can register when you install the application or at a later date.
You can register using the following methods:
• online — You can launch online registration if you are connected to the Internet
when you install the Corel graphics application. If no Internet connection is
detected, a list of options displays in a dialog box.
• FTP — You can complete the registration form, and it will be sent automatically
when an Internet connection is detected.
• by phone — You can call the Corel Customer Service Center nearest you.
For more information about registering a Corel product, visit www.corel.com/support/
register.
Updating Corel products
Corel® Update is an automatic feature that notifies you of updates to Corel products,
downloads the updates, and installs them. Corel Update operates via the Web, so it
requires an Internet connection.
You can set how often Corel Update checks for updates through the Start menu. It’s
recommended that you set Corel Update to check for updates every 30 days or on
starting the application. If you prefer, you can disable Corel Update altogether by
choosing to never check for updates.
Corel Support Services
Corel Support Services can provide you with prompt and accurate information about
product features, specifications, pricing, availability, services, and technical support. For
the most current information on support services available for your Corel product,
please visit www.corel.com/support.
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Documentation conventions
The following table describes important conventions used in the user guide and Help.
Convention Description Examples
Menu ` Menu command Click the menu item
followed by the menu
command.
list box A list of options that drops
down when a user clicks the
down arrow button.
docker A window containing
available commands and
settings relevant to a specific
tool or task.
Enter Enter key Type a value in the Eraser
A note contains information
that is important to the
preceding steps. It can
describe conditions under
which the procedure can be
performed.
A tip contains suggestions
for performing the preceding
steps. It can present
alternatives to the steps, and
other benefits and uses of the
procedure. You can also
create a hyperlink using the
Internet toolbar.
Click File ` Open.
Choose a value from the
Force field list box on the
property bar.
Double-click the name of the
group in the Timeline
docker.
thickness box on the
property bar, and press
Enter.
You can’t copy or clone a
compound blend. If you click
the Equal margins button,
you must specify values in
the To p /l ef t ma rg in boxes.
Trimming an object can
reduce the drawing file size.
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Getting help
You can get help from the accompanying user guide or directly from the user interface.
You can find topics from the Help by using the table of contents and search tool. You
can also print a Help topic and display Help topics relevant to the task you are
performing.
Help is available through the following tools:
• User guide — provides commonly used procedures and information. Chapters
ending with From here tables contain keywords that direct you to additional topics
in the Help.
• Help — lets you access Help directly from the user interface and find topics using
the contents topic, index, and word/phrase search tool
• To o l T i p s — let you access tips for using the application’s icons and buttons. To
view a ToolTip, position the cursor over an icon, button, or other application
control.
To use H elp
1 Click Help ` Help topics.
2 Click one of the following tabs:
• Contents — lets you browse through topics in the Help
• Index — lets you use the index to find a topic
• Search — lets you search the full text of the Help for a particular word. For
example, if you are looking for information about RGB color mode, you can type
“RGB” to display a list of relevant topics.
You can also
View Help for a dialog box Click the Help button.
Print a specific Help topic Open a Help topic, click the frame you want
to print, and click Print.
You can also launch Help by pressing F1.
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Using CorelTUTOR
CorelTUTOR provides a series of project-based tutorials that introduce you to basic and
advanced features of the applications of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12.
To access CorelTUTOR
•Click Help ` CorelTUTOR.
VBA Programming Guide
The new VBA Programming Guide for CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12 will help you
automate tasks and create custom solutions using Microsoft® Visual Basic® for
Applications (VBA) in CorelDRAW and Corel PHOTO-PAINT. If you installed
CorelDRAW or Corel PHOTO-PAINT using the Typical install, or a Custom install
that included VBA, then the guide is accessible from a link in the VBA Help for
CorelDRAW or the VBA Help for Corel PHOTO-PAINT.
Customer feedback
If you have any comments or suggestions about the user guides, Help, and tutorials,
you can send them by email to drawdoc@corel.com. You can check the product Web
site for the latest news, tips and tricks, and product upgrade information. Go to
www.corel.com and follow the links to the product site.
Other resources
Corel has training partnerships with other firms and provides professional services for
its software products. The Corel Designer Web site contains a wealth of graphics
resources.
Training
Corel Training Events
• Maximize your skills and attend a Corel® Training Camp — special intensive
Training Events held throughout North America on various Corel products. All
Training Camps are delivered by a Corel Training Specialist, with hands-on
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instruction, exercises and practical real-world projects. To look at the training
schedule or to register for a course, please visit www.corel.com/trainingschedule.
Corel Customized Training
• Once you have Corel applications running on your computers, our team of expert
Corel Training Specialists can help you make the most of them with customized
training, tailored to the specific needs of your work environment. We will help you
develop a custom curriculum which is practical and relevant to the needs of your
organization. For more information about Corel Customized Training, please visit
www.corel.com/customizedtraining.
Corel Training Partners (CTP)
• A Corel® Training Partner is an independent, officially accredited local
organization that provides training on Corel products and is located worldwide for
your convenience.
Corel Corporate Services
Corel is committed to getting you up and running quickly with time and money-saving
workflow solutions. To simplify the process of deploying Corel applications across your
organization, our Corporate Services department offers a comprehensive range of costeffective services to meet your technology needs. This group brings together highly
skilled experts from across the company who are dedicated to providing top-notch
solutions. Our knowledgeable team is ready to offer assistance through all stages of your
project, from application development and support to software systems integration and
training.
For more information on Corel Corporate Services, please contact
proservices@corel.com.
World Wide Web resources
The following sites include product information, articles, tips, and additional tutorials,
as well as graphics resources such as photos, clipart, and font subscriptions:
• www.corel.com
About Corel Corporation
Founded in 1985, Corel Corporation (www.corel.com) is a leading technology company
specializing in content creation tools, business process management and XML-enabled
enterprise solutions. The company’s goal is to give consumers and enterprise customers
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the ability to create, exchange and instantly interact with visual content that is always
relevant, accurate and available. Corel Corporation has its headquarters in Ottawa,
Canada.
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