Corel GRAFIGO User Manual
Corelâ GrafigoÔ User Guide
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Table of Contents
Welcome to Corel Grafigo ...............5
Corel Corporation ...................5
Technical support ...................5
Customer feedback...................6
Getting Started ..................7
Understanding Corel Grafigo terms .............7
The toolbar .....................8
The Toolbox .....................8
The Symbols palette ..................9
Creating and opening documents ..............9
Changing the look of the work area ............10
Using underlays ...................10
Changing the view ..................11
Selecting, moving, and copying objects ...........12
Undoing and redoing actions ...............13
Using gestures ....................13
Saving and exporting documents..............16
Closing documents and quitting Corel Grafigo .........16
Drawing ....................18
Drawing with the Pen tools ...............18
Drawing with the Marker tool ..............20
Erasing ......................21
Working with Onionskins ................22
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Working with symbols .................23
Working with text .................26
Adding, editing, moving, and deleting text ..........26
Converting Ink into text ................28
Formatting text ...................28
Changing the recognized language .............29
Collaborating with others ...............30
Setting up Microsoft NetMeeting .............30
Placing or receiving a call ................30
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Welcome to Corel Grafigo
CorelÒ GrafigoÔ is a graphics application for the Tablet PC. It provides the
simplicity of a pencil and paper, and allows you to quickly visualize and communicate
your ideas. This chapter provides information on the following:
Corel Corporation
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Technical support
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Customer feedback
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Corel Corporation
Founded in 1985, Corel Corporation (www.corel.com) is a leading technology
company specializing in content development (both text and graphics), business
process management and XML-enabled enterprise solutions. The company’s goal is to
give consumers and enterprise customers the ability to create, exchange and instantly
interact with content that is always relevant, accurate and available. With its
headquarters in Ottawa, Canada, Corel’s common stock trades on the Nasdaq Stock
Market under the symbol CORL and on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the
symbol COR.
Technical support
Priority Service is fee-based, toll-free technical service designed for individual users
and small businesses, including Academic and OEM users, and encompasses two
options:
Pay-As-You-Go
Traditional, per-minute telephone support.
For Pay-As-You-Go service call: 1-900-733-8780 (Mon-Fri: 8:30 - 19:30 EST)
Support Incident
A support incident is the resolution of one technical question, problem or issue,
regardless of the number of telephone calls required to resolve it. You can purchase
support incidents in the following ways:
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Purchase your single support incident at the time of use. This is payable over the
phone by major credit card only.
Purchase your support incidents, in packs of three or more, before you encounter
any technical issues and save over 15% of the individual purchase price. These are
payable by major credit card, check, or purchase order. All support incident packs
expire one year from the date of purchase.
For Support Incident service call: 1-877-662-6735 (Mon-Fri: 8:30 - 19:30 EST)
Customer feedback
If you have any comments or suggestions about Corel Grafigo, you can send them by
email to grafigosuggest@corel.com. If you have any comments or suggestions about
the Corel Grafigo Help, you can send them by email to grafigodoc@corel.com or by
regular mail to the following address: Product Manager, Corel Grafigo, Corel
Corporation, 1600 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1Z 8R7.
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Getting Started
In this chapter you will learn about:
Understanding Corel Grafigo terms
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The toolbar
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The Toolbox
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The Symbols palette
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• Creating and opening documents
• Changing the look of the work area
• Using underlays
• Changing the view
• Selecting, moving, and copying objects
• Undoing and redoing actions
• Using gestures
• Saving and exporting documents
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Closing documents and quitting Corel Grafigo
Understanding Corel Grafigo terms
Tap: To touch an item once with your tablet pen and then lift the pen quickly.
Corresponds to a click with a mouse.
Double-tap: To tap twice quickly with your tablet pen. Corresponds to a double-click
with a mouse.
Pressure sensitivity: The ability of a Tablet PC to sense pressure. It allows you to
increase or decrease the thickness of ink by varying the amount of pressure on the
tablet pen.
Onionskin: A translucent drawing surface that is placed on top of a work area. You
can use it like trace paper when drawing.
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Ink: The writing or drawing strokes that you make with your tablet pen.
Underlay: A background image that can be inserted in the work area.
Work area: The area in which you create and edit the content in a document.
The toolbar
When you open Corel Grafigo the toolbar is, by default, at the top of the screen. It
includes the following commands:
New—creates a new document.
Open—lets you browse for a file to open.
Close—closes a document.
Save—saves the open document
Cut—removes a selected object from the work area and copies it to the
Clipboard
Copy—places a selected object on the Clipboard so it can be pasted
Paste—places the contents of the Clipboard into the work area (only objects that
are supported in Corel Grafigo can be pasted into a document).
Undo—reverses the previous action. You can undo up to 21 of the previous
actions.
Redo—reverses the previous Undo
Underlay—allows you to select a file to place as an underlay in your work area.
Collaborate—allows you to collaborate with other users over the Internet or a
network by using Microsoftâ NetMeetingâ .
Settings—opens a dialog box for setting options.
Help—opens the Corel Grafigo Help.
The Toolbox
The Toolbox contains tools for drawing, creating text, and manipulating objects in the
work area. It contains the following tools:
Lasso—lets you select ink and text in the work area
Pen 1, Pen 2, and Pen 3—These pens let you draw using opaque ink.
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Marker—lets you draw lines and shapes using partially transparent ink
Onionskin—lets you place a translucent drawing surface on top of a work area.
An Onionskin works like a piece of trace paper on a drawing.
Eraser—lets you remove ink and text from the work area
Text—lets you add a text box, or convert handwriting to text
Zoom—lets you reduce or magnify the view, or fit your work to the view
Pan—lets you move the view within the work area
The Symbols palette
The Symbols palette contains shapes that you can add to a drawing. From the
Symbols palette you can place a shape on the work area and determine its size and
orientation by dragging. You can create new symbols and add them to the Symbols
palette.
Creating and opening documents
Corel Grafigo creates SVG files. Only SVG files created in Corel Grafigo can be
opened by the application.
To create a new document
1
On the toolbar, tap New . A new instance of Corel Grafigo is launched.
To open a Corel Grafigo document
1
On the toolbar, tap Open .
2
In the Look in box, choose the drive and folder where the Corel Grafigo SVG file
is stored.
3 Choose a file.
4
Ta p Open.
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Notes
Only SVG files created in Corel Grafigo can be opened.
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Changing the look of the work area
You can change the look of the work area by adding a background color or a grid.
These elements are for display only, and are not part of a document.
To add a grid to the work area
1
On the toolbar, tap Settings .
2
Tap the Work area tab.
3
In the Grid section, choose either Small or Large to set the size of the grid.
4
Tap the Color button and choose a color for the grid.
5
Ta p OK.
To change the color of the canvas
1
On the toolbar, tap Settings .
2
Tap the Work area tab.
3
In the Display section, tap the Canvas color button and choose a color.
4
Ta p OK.
Using underlays
An underlay is an image that you place in the background of your work area. The
underlay is embedded in a document and becomes part of it. You can draw and place
text on the underlay.
To insert an underlay
1
On the toolbar, tap Underlay .
2 Browse to select the image file you want to use as an underlay.
3
Ta p Open.
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Notes
Underlays must be in one of the following file formats: JPG, BMP, TIF, GIF, PNG,
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EMF.
Once you insert an underlay and save your document, the underlay is embedded in
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the document and cannot be removed. However, you can replace it with another
underlay.
Changing the view
You can change the view by zooming in or out, or panning within the work area.
To zoom in and out
1
In the Toolbox, tap Zoom .
2 In the work area, tap the area that you want to zoom in on.
3 To increase the magnification, tap the work area again.
4
To zoom out, tap Zoom then hold down the button on the tablet pen and tap
the area that you want to zoom out on.
Note
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By default, a document is at a zoom level of 100%. The minimum zoom level is
25% and the maximum zoom level is 400%.
Tips
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You can zoom in on a specific area by tapping Zoom and then dragging a box
on the work area to define the area you want to zoom on.
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You can also Zoom in or out by using Gestures. For more information see "Using
gestures" on page 13.
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You can double-tap Zoom to fit your work to the view.
To pan
1
In the Toolbox, tap Pan .
2 Place the tablet pen on the screen, and drag to move the view within the work
area.
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