Corel Corel Draw Home Student Suite - X8 Quick Start Manual

CorelDRAW® Home & Student Suite X8 offers fully-integrated applications and complementary plugins that cover everything

from vector illustration and page layout, to photo editing, bitmap-to-vector tracing, and web graphics.

CorelDRAW Home & Student X8 Workspace

Title bar: Displays the title

of the open document.

Menu bar: The area
containing pull-down
options and commands.

To ol b ox : Contains tools for
creating and modifying
objects in the drawing.

Drawing window: The
area bordered by the scroll
bars and application
controls. It includes the
drawing page and the
surrounding area.

Drawing page: The
rectangular area inside the
drawing window. It is the
printable area of your work
area.

Rulers: Calibrated lines with markers used to
determine the size and position of objects in a
drawing.

Standard toolbar: A detachable bar that contains shortcuts to
menu and other commands, such as opening, saving and
printing.

Property bar: A
detachable bar with
commands that relate
to the active tool or
object.

Docker: A window
containing available
commands and
settings relevant to a
specific tool or task.

Color palette: A
dockable bar that
contains color
swatches.

Navigator: A button
that opens a smaller
display to help you
move around a
drawing.

Document palette: A
dockable bar that contains
color swatches for the
current document.

Document navigator: An area that contains
controls for moving between pages and adding
pages.

The Welcome screen

The Welcome screen is a centralized location from which you
can access learning resources, product information, and
alternative application workspaces as well as acquire
applications, plug-ins, and extensions.

You can also find out about new features, receive the latest
product updates, and view designs created by CorelDRAW
users from around the world.

Status bar: Contains information about object properties such
as type, size, color, fill, and resolution. The status bar also shows
the current mouse position.

Workspace selection

To choose a workspace, click Window  Workspace, or
choose one of the available workspaces from the
Welcome screen.

To add tools or controls to the active workspace, click the
Quick customize button .

CorelDRAW Home & Student X8 toolbox

Many of the tools in the CorelDRAW Home & Student toolbox are organized in flyouts. To access such tools, click the small arrow in the
lower-right corner of a button. The illustration below shows the toolbox and flyouts available in the Default workspace, and can help you
find tools easily. If you still don’t see the tool you are looking for, click the Quick customize button at the bottom of the toolbox. With
the help of the Quick customize button, you can also hide tools you don’t use often.

Templates

You can easily start a new project from a template. You can
browse, preview, or search for templates by name, category,
keywords, or designer notes.

Drawing lines

The drawing tools from the Curve flyout let you draw curved
and straight lines, and lines containing both curved and
straight segments. The line segments are connected by
nodes, which are depicted as small squares.

Ellipses

You can draw an ellipse by dragging diagonally
with the Ellipse tool . Hold down Ctrl to
constrain the shape to a circle. The 3-point
ellipse tool lets you quickly draw an ellipse at
an angle.

To draw an arc or a pie shape, you can click the
Arc or Pie button on the property bar and then drag.

Complex shapes

You can use the tools on the Object flyout to draw polygons,
grids, spirals, and two types of stars: perfect and complex.
Use the property bar to change the number of polygon sides,
star points, grid columns, or spiral revolutions.

Perfect shapes

With the tools on the Object flyout, you
can also draw basic shapes, arrows,
flowchart shapes, banners, and callout
shapes. Select a preset shape on the property bar, and drag
the diamond-shaped handle (glyph) to modify the
appearance of some shapes.

The Freehand and Polyline tools let you draw
freehand lines as if you were sketching on a sketchpad.

The Bézier and Pen tools let you
draw lines one segment at a time by
placing each node with precision and
controlling the shape of each curved
segment.

The B-spline tool lets you create
smooth curves with fewer nodes than
curves drawn by using freehand paths.

Drawing shapes

CorelDRAW Home & Student offers a wide variety of tools for
drawing shapes.

Rectangles

By dragging diagonally with the Rectangle
tool , you can draw a rectangle or a
square (when holding down Ctrl). The 3-
point rectangle tool lets you quickly
draw rectangles at an angle.

Text

There are two types of text you can add to drawings:
paragraph text and artistic text. You can also import existing
text from an external file or paste text from the Clipboard.

Paragraph text

Paragraph text can be used for larger
bodies of text that have greater
formatting requirements. Before you add
paragraph text, you must drag with the
Te xt tool to create a text frame.

Artistic text

You can use artistic text for short lines of
text to which you can apply a wide range
of effects, such as drop shadows or
contours.

You can add artistic text to an open or
closed path.

Fit text to a path

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To fit text to a path, select the text, and
click Te xt

 Fit Text to Path. Move the

pointer over a path and use the dynamic
preview to position the text. Click to
attach the text to the path.

To type text on a path, click the Te xt tool ,
and point to a path. When the pointer
changes to a Fit to Path pointer, click to add
text.

Interactive OpenType features

OpenType features let you choose alternative appearances for
individual characters (glyphs), provided that the font and
selected characters support OpenType features. OpenType
features include fractions, ligatures, ordinals, ornaments,
small caps, swashes, and more. OpenType fonts are based on
Unicode, which makes them ideal for cross-platform and
multi-language design work. In addition,
CorelDRAW Home & Student will suggest eligible OpenType
features that you can apply to your text.

Page layout

The Page property bar lets you adjust page settings, such as
page size, dimensions, orientation (landscape or portrait),
units of measure, nudge distance, and duplicate distance.

To access the Page property bar, click the Pick tool ,
and click a blank space in the drawing window.

Right-click a page tab on the document navigator to
open a context menu that lets you rename, delete, or
duplicate the current page or insert new pages.

Choose a preset page size from the Page size list box on

the property bar.

Specify custom page width and height in the Page

dimensions boxes.

Set the page orientation to Landscape or Portrait.

Click the Current page button to apply the page size

only to the current page.

Choose a unit of measure from the Drawing units list

box.

Insert Character docker

The Insert Character docker (Te xt 
Insert Character) presents all characters,

symbols, and glyphs associated with a
selected font, making it easier to find and
insert characters into your documents. A
filtering option lets you display only the
character subsets that you want. For
example, you can choose to display only
the Cyrillic characters and symbols for a
selected font.

To navigate the pages in a document, use the document
navigator in the lower left of the application window.

Go to the first page.

Go to the previous page.

Open the Go to page dialog box.

Go to the next page.

Go to the last page.

Add a new page.

Click any page tab to go to that page.

To insert page numbers, click Layout

 Page Number

Settings, and choose the settings you want.