Corel GRAFIGO 2 User Manual
Corel® Grafigo™ 2 User Guide
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Table of Contents
Welcome to Corel Grafigo
What’s new in Corel Grafigo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Documentation conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Getting help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
To use Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
To access ToolTips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
To access the user guide in PDF format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Activating Corel products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Registering Corel products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Technical support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Customer feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Corel Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Workspace tour
Corel Grafigo terminology and concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Corel Grafigo program window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Corel Grafigo workspace tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
The standard toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
The toolbox. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
The Library toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
To change the size of the Library toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
To open the Library flyout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
To change the size of the Library flyout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
To change the size of the content preview window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
To change the size of the Category and Content lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
The View manager toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
To display or hide the View manager toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
To change the size of the View manager toolbar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
The Collaboration palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
To open or close the Collaboration palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
To change the size of the Collaboration palette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Changing workspace options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
To dock a toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
To undock a toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
To change the size of a toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
To display or hide a toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
To change the size of buttons on a toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
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To change the color of the workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
To add a grid to the workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Basics
Creating and opening documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
To create a new document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
To open a document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Undoing and redoing actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
To undo or redo an action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Viewing documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
To zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
To view a document that falls outside the current workspace view . . . . . . . . 25
To create a view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
To access a view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
To delete a view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Saving documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
To save a document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
To navigate through views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Previewing documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
To preview a document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Closing documents and quitting Corel Grafigo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
To close a document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
To quit Corel Grafigo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Organizing document components
Understanding layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Working with underlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
To insert an underlay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
To select or deselect an underlay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
To copy and paste an underlay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
To resize an underlay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
To move an underlay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
To delete an underlay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Working with onionskins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
To add an onionskin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
To select an onionskin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
To resize an onionskin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
To move an onionskin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
To display or hide an onionskin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
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To lock or unlock an onionskin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
To set the properties of an onionskin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
To delete an onionskin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Working with ink strokes
Adding ink strokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
To add an ink stroke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
To set the attributes of the Pen and Marker tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Selecting ink strokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
To select an ink stroke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
To deselect an ink stroke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Copying and pasting ink strokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
To copy and paste an ink stroke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Sizing ink strokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
To size an ink stroke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Moving ink strokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
To move an ink stroke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Rotating ink strokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
To rotate an ink stroke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Erasing ink strokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
To erase an ink stroke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Using drawing assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
To enable or disable drawing assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
To choose drawing assistance settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Working with text
Managing text frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
To insert a text frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
To select a text frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
To resize a text frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
To move a text frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
To delete a text frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Adding, selecting, and deleting text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
To add text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
To select text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
To delete text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Converting ink into text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
To convert ink into text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Editing text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
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To edit text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
To format text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Changing the recognized language. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
To change the recognized language. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Reusing content
Managing categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
To create a category . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
To rename a category . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
To add content to a category . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
To delete content from a category. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
To move content within a category . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
To move content between categories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
To move a category. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
To delete a category . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Reusing content in documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
To insert saved content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Sharing content between documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
To export a category . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
To import a category . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Sharing information between programs
Importing documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
To import a document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Exporting documents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
To export a document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Exchanging information between programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
To copy an ink stroke to another program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
To print a document to a Corel Grafigo SVG file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
To capture content from another program and bring it in as an underlay . . . 72
Collaborating online
Choosing a collaboration engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
To choose a collaboration engine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Collaborating in real time using Microsoft peer-to-peer technology . . . . . . . . . . 74
To set up a collaboration session using Microsoft peer-to-peer technology . . . 75
To change the user name in peer-to-peer collaboration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
To change the peer-to-peer collaboration status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
To check the peer-to-peer collaboration status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
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To send a User Identifier File in peer-to-peer collaboration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
To add a User Identifier File to your peer-to-peer contact list . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
To change a contact’s name in peer-to-peer collaboration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
To delete a peer-to-peer contact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
To send a peer-to-peer collaboration request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
To accept or reject a peer-to-peer collaboration request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
To leave a peer-to-peer collaboration session. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Collaborating in real time using NetMeeting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
To set up NetMeeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
To set up a collaboration session using NetMeeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
To place a call in NetMeeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
To listen for and accept an incoming call in NetMeeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
To end a call in NetMeeting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
E-mailing documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
To e-mail a document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Shortcuts
Using gestures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
To make a gesture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Erase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Undo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Redo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Zoom in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Zoom out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Up one onionskin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Down one onionskin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Glossary
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Welcome to Corel Grafigo
Corel® Grafigo™ is a graphics program for the Microsoft® Windows® XP Tablet
PC. It provides the simplicity of pencil and paper, yet allows you to quickly visualize
and communicate your ideas online.
In this section, you’ll learn about
• what’s new in Corel Grafigo
• documentation conventions
• getting help
• activating Corel products
• registering Corel products
•technical support
• customer feedback
•Corel Corporation
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What’s new in Corel Grafigo
Corel Grafigo 2 provides new and enhanced features including the following.
Bringing content into Corel Grafigo
Corel Grafigo now lets you bring in content from virtually everywhere. You can import
documents from all programs installed on your Tablet PC that support the standard
Windows OS print functionality. You can also open documents in their native
programs, print them to a Corel Grafigo SVG file or the Corel Grafigo printer driver,
and open them in Corel Grafigo. In addition, the new Grab-It tool lets you capture
content from other programs and bring it into Corel Grafigo as an underlay. For more
information, see “Sharing information between programs” on page 69.
Underlays
This version of Corel Grafigo makes it easier to work with underlays: you can move,
resize, and delete underlays. You can import multipage documents as underlays. Each
page is brought in as a separate underlay, which in turn is automatically added as a view
to the View manager toolbar for easy access. For more information, see “Working with
underlays” on page 32.
Welcome to Corel Grafigo 1
Library
The Library toolbar replaces the Symbols palette. You can now create reusable content
from underlays, onionskins, text frames, and ink strokes and organize content more
easily with a new intuitive workflow. For more information, see “The Library toolbar”
on page 15 and “Reusing content” on page 63.
Drawing assistance
Corel Grafigo provides new drawing aids that recognize the shapes you draw and
convert them into perfect forms, and that allow line straightening and alignment,
symmetry recognition, and snapping. In addition to the hand-drawn shapes recognized
in version 1.0, Corel Grafigo now recognizes arrows and trapezoids. For more
information, see “Using drawing assistance” on page 48.
Selecting content
Using the Pick selector and the Lasso selector, you can now select ink strokes, text
frames, and underlays with a tap of the pen and grab anywhere within a selection to
move the selected content. The new Pick selector allows you to use one motion to select
and move content around the workspace.
Ink
You can resize and rotate ink strokes. The new Local eraser tool lets you erase portions
of an ink stroke. For more information, see “Working with ink strokes” on page 41.
Onionskins
Corel Grafigo provides new options for onionskins: you can show, hide, lock, and unlock
onionskins. For more information, see “Working with onionskins” on page 35.
Navigating in documents
This version of Corel Grafigo provides new tools for viewing document contents and
navigating in documents. The Navigator facilitates navigating the workspace; you can
now pan to any area of the workspace with a tap of the pen. You can also auto-pan to
move the document view in the direction you drag a selected object. For more
information, see “Viewing documents” on page 24.
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View manager
You can save specific views while working and access them at any time on the View
manager toolbar. For more information, see “The View manager toolbar” on page 18
and “Viewing documents” on page 24.
Slide shows
You can save views as a slide show and view them in an SVG viewer. This is especially
useful for viewing large SVG documents. When you view a multiview document in an
SVG viewer, Corel Grafigo provides navigation controls that let you navigate through
the views you’ve defined. For more information, see “Saving documents” on page 27.
Collaboration
In addition to using Microsoft® NetMeeting®, you can now collaborate in real time
using Microsoft peer-to-peer technology. For more information, see “Choosing a
collaboration engine” on page 73.
E-mailing documents
You can e-mail documents directly from Corel Grafigo. For more information, see “Emailing documents” on page 82.
Exchanging information between programs
You can now copy selected ink strokes from Corel Grafigo to another program that
supports ink. You can also take selected ink strokes from a program that supports ink
and insert them in Corel Grafigo as ink. For more information, see “Exchanging
information between programs” on page 71.
Documentation conventions
The table below describes important conventions used in the user guide and Help.
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Convention Description Examples
List box A list of options that drops
down when a user taps the
down arrow button
Drag Tap an object and, without
raising the tablet pen, drag
the object
Point to Hover the tip of the tablet
pen over an item
Workspace The area in which you create
and edit the content in a
document
Note A note contains information
that is important to the
preceding steps. It can
describe conditions under
which the procedure can be
performed.
From the Recognizer
language list box, choose
the language that you want
recognized.
Drag the selected ink stroke
to a new location in the
workspace.
Point to the selection box
and, when the cursor
changes to a four-headed
arrow, drag the text frame
to a new location in the
workspace.
The Cut button lets you cut
selected ink strokes from the
workspace and copy them to
the Clipboard.
The ink strokes that you
paste are added to the
workspace as selected ink
strokes.
Tip A tip contains suggestions
for performing the
preceding steps, and other
benefits and uses of the
procedure.
To maintain the relative line
weight of an ink stroke, tap
Settings on the standard
toolbar, tap the Wor k a r ea
tab, and enable the Relative
line weight check box in
the Scale ink area.
Getting help
You can get help directly from the user interface or from the user guide.
Corel Grafigo offers you a variety of ways to help you learn the program:
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•Help — from the Help menu in the program, provides commonly used procedures
and information, as well as screen captures of user interface components and
graphics illustrating a wide range of concepts and features. The Help lets you find
topics using the contents, index, and word/phrase search tool.
• ToolTips — let you access names or functions of icons and buttons
• User guide — lets you access Corel Grafigo concepts and procedures in a PDF
format. You can print out either the entire user guide and use it as a reference or
selected topics relevant to the task you are performing.
To use H elp
1 On the standard toolbar, tap the arrow to the right of Help, and tap Help topics.
2 Tap 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 online documentation for a
particular word
To access ToolTips
• Point to an icon or button.
You can display or hide ToolTips by tapping Settings on the standard
toolbar, tapping the Wor k a re a tab, and enabling or disabling the Show
To o l T i p s option in the Display area.
To access the user guide in PDF format
• Download the user guide in PDF format from http://www.corel.com/grafigo.
Activating Corel products
To use Corel products beyond the 15-day grace period, you must activate them.
Activating a product generates a unique activation code for the computer by using the
product serial number and by profiling the system.
You can activate a product online, by phone, or by using a previously attained product
activation code. When you activate a product online, the process is anonymous,
requiring no personal information.
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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. Also, when you register a
product, you are eligible for 30 days of free technical support.
You can register when you install the program, or choose to register 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 program. 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.
Technical support
Corel Support Services
Corel Support Services can provide you with prompt and accurate information about
product features, specifications, pricing, availability, services, and technical support.
Online Support
For information about online support services, visit www.corel.com/support. Please
note, some of the services are available only in English.
• Corel® Knowledge Base — allows you to read, print, and download documents
that contain answers to many technical questions. You can access Corel Knowledge
Base at kb.corel.com.
• Newsgroups (peer-to-peer forums) — allow you to exchange information, tips,
and techniques with other users of Corel products. You can access the newsgroups
at www.corel.com/newsgroups.
• Downloads — allow you to access product patches, updates, and trial versions.
You can access downloads at www.corel.com/downloads.
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Telephone Support
For detailed information regarding telephone support services, please visit
www.corel.com/support.
Live telephone support services are available for all Corel products from warranty
support (30 days) to fee-based Priority and Premium Services. OEM, "white box," jewel
case (CD only), trial, and Academic versions of Corel products are eligible for fee-based
support services only.
North America
• For pricing, purchasing, or general inquiries about Corel products, you can call
Customer Service toll-free at 1-800-772-6735.
• To speak directly to a technician, please dial 1-613-274-0500. The hours of
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(EST).
Outside North America
For pricing, purchasing, or general inquiries about Corel products, call Customer
Service toll-free at the corresponding in-country number listed below.
Please note that these numbers may change as we adapt our services to fit user needs.
Check the international support numbers page at www.corel.com/support for the most
up to date contact details.
Contact Customer Service for pricing, purchasing, general inquiries, or replacement
CDs. Contact Technical Support should you require technical assistance operating your
Corel software.
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Mail and Fax Support
You can send inquiries to Corel Support Services representatives by mail or fax.
Corel Support Services
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Fax: 1-613-761-9176
Customer feedback
If you have any comments or suggestions about Corel Grafigo, you can send them by
e-mail to grafigosuggest@corel.com. If you have any comments or suggestions about
the Corel Grafigo Help, you can send them by e-mail 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
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
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enterprise solutions. The company’s goal is to give consumers and enterprise customers
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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Workspace tour 2
Becoming familiar with the terminology and workspace of Corel Grafigo will help you
follow the concepts and procedures found in the Help and will allow you to learn the
program more quickly.
In this section, you’ll learn about
• Corel Grafigo terminology and concepts
• Corel Grafigo program window
• Corel Grafigo workspace tools
• changing workspace options
Corel Grafigo terminology and concepts
Before you get started with Corel Grafigo, you should be familiar with the following
terms.
Term Description
Tap To touch an item once with the tablet pen
and then lift the pen quickly. Corresponds to
a click with a mouse.
Double-tap To tap twice quickly with the 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 workspace. You can use it like
tracing paper when drawing.
Ink strokes The writing or drawing strokes that you
make with the tablet pen.
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Term Description
Underlay An underlay is an image that can be inserted
in the background of the workspace. You
can draw and place text on the underlay.
Corel Grafigo program window
When you start Corel Grafigo, the program window opens containing the workspace,
the standard toolbar, the toolbox, the Library toolbar, and the View manager toolbar.
You can customize the elements in the program window to suit your needs. For
information about customizing workspace options, see “Changing workspace options”
on page 20.
The Corel Grafigo program window appears below. A description of its parts follows.
Standard
toolbar
Library
toolbar
Toolbox
View manager
toolbar
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Part Description
Standard toolbar A bar with buttons for managing
documents, underlays,
components, capturing content from other
programs, e-mailing documents,
customizing settings, accessing Help, and
collaborating with other users
Toolbox A bar with tools for adding and
manipulating ink strokes, adding text and
onionskins, and navigating in the workspace
Library toolbar A bar containing reusable content that you
can add to a document
View manager toolbar A bar located at the bottom of the screen
with controls for adding, deleting, and
navigating through document views
and document
Corel Grafigo workspace tools
Program commands are accessible through the standard toolbar, toolbox, Library
toolbar, View manager toolbar, and shortcuts. For information about the shortcuts
available in Corel Grafigo, see “Shortcuts” on page 85.
The standard toolbar
When you open Corel Grafigo, the standard toolbar is, by default, at the top of the
screen. The standard toolbar includes the following commands.
Button Description
The New button lets you create a new document.
The Open button lets you open a document.
The Close button lets you close a document.
The Save flyout lets you save and export a document.
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Button Description
The Underlay flyout lets you add and remove an underlay.
The Grab-It button lets you capture an area of the computer
screen and bring it into Corel Grafigo as an underlay.
The Send to e-mail recipient button lets you send a document
by e-mail.
The Cut button lets you cut selected ink strokes, text frames, and
underlays from the workspace and copy them to the Clipboard.
The Copy button lets you copy selected ink strokes, text frames,
and underlays to the Clipboard.
The Paste button lets you paste the Clipboard contents into the
workspace (only ink strokes, text frames, and underlays that are
supported in Corel Grafigo can be pasted into a document).
The Undo button lets you reverse an action.
The Redo button lets you restore an action that was undone.
The Drawing assistance button lets you enable and disable
drawing assistance.
The View manager button lets you display and hide the View
manager toolbar.
The Collaborate button lets you collaborate with other users
over the Internet or a network by using Microsoft Peer-to-Peer
Microsoft NetMeeting technology. Depending on the
collaboration engine you choose, the icon on the standard toolbar
changes from a traffic light icon for Peer-to-Peer collaboration
to a handshake icon for Microsoft NetMeeting.
The Settings button lets you customize settings.
The Help flyout lets you access the Help.
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or
The toolbox
The toolbox contains tools for drawing, creating text, and manipulating ink strokes in
the workspace. It contains the following tools.
Tool Description
The Selection tools flyout lets you access the Pick selector
and the Lasso selector . The Pick selector lets you select and
move ink, underlays, and text frames by tapping them and
dragging. The Lasso selector lets you select and move ink,
underlays, and text frames by circling them and dragging.
The Pen tools let you draw using opaque ink.
The Marker tool lets you draw using partially transparent ink.
The Eraser flyout lets you access the Stroke eraser and Local
eraser tools . The Stroke eraser tool lets you erase one or
multiple ink strokes. The Local eraser tool lets you erase an area
of an ink stroke.
The Onionskin tool lets you place a translucent drawing surface
on top of the workspace.
The Te x t tool lets you add a text frame or convert handwriting to
text.
The Zoom tool lets you reduce or magnify the view.
The Pan tool lets you move the view within the workspace and
access the Navigator.
The Library toolbar
The Library toolbar provides access to reusable content, as well as to commands that
allow you to create, delete, and rearrange content categories and share categories with
other users. For more information about storing and reusing document content, see
“Reusing content” on page 63.
The Library toolbar consists of a Category preview control, which displays the
currently selected category; a Content preview control, which displays the currently
selected category item; and a Most Recently Used (MRU) items list, which displays
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the most recently used category items. You can change the size of the Library toolbar
to see more items in the MRU list.
Category preview control Most Recently Used items listContent preview control
Library toolbar
The Library toolbar lets you access the Library flyout. The Library flyout contains a
Category list, Content list, content preview window, and buttons for creating,
deleting, importing, and exporting categories. The Category list shows all categories
that you have created or imported; the Content list shows all items in a selected
category; the content preview window lets you preview content before you add it to a
document.
Content preview
window
Category list
The Library flyout
Content list
At the bottom of the Library flyout, you’ll find the following buttons.
Button Description
The New category button lets you add
content categories.
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Button Description
The Import category button lets you
import content categories.
The Export category button lets you
export content categories.
The Delete category button lets you delete
content categories.
The Add content button lets you add
content from the workspace to a selected
category.
The Delete content button lets you delete
category items.
You can change the size of the Library flyout. You can also change the size of the
content preview window, as well as the size of the Content and Category lists.
To change the size of the Library toolbar
• Point to the edge of the Library toolbar and, using the two-directional arrow, drag
the edge of the toolbar.
To open the Library flyout
•On the Library toolbar, tap the arrow to the right of the Content preview control.
To change the size of the Library flyout
• Point to the edge of the Library flyout and, using the two-directional arrow, drag
the edge of the flyout.
To change the size of the content preview window
• Point to the border between the content preview window and the Category and
Content lists and, when the pointer changes to a bar with two vertical arrows, drag
up or down until the preview window is the size you want.
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To change the size of the Category and Content lists
• Point to the border between the Category and Content lists and, when the pointer
changes to a bar with two horizontal arrows, drag until the lists are the size you
want.
The View manager toolbar
The View manager toolbar contains thumbnails of document views that you have
created, as well as buttons for adding, deleting, and navigating through views. For
information about creating, deleting, and navigating through views, see “Viewing
documents” on page 24.
The View manager toolbar allows you to save specific views and quickly jump
to them at any time.
The View manager toolbar contains the following commands.
Button Description
The Add button lets you add a view in a
document by capturing a specific coordinate
and magnification level.
The Delete button lets you delete a view
that you have defined.
The Next button lets you go to the next
view.
The Previous button lets you go back to
the previous view.
You can toggle between displaying and hiding the View manager toolbar. You can also
change its size.
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To display or hide the View manager toolbar
•Tap View manager on the standard toolbar.
The View manager toolbar is displayed when the View manager button on the
standard toolbar appears raised.
To change the size of the View manager toolbar
• Point to the edge of the toolbar and, using the two-directional arrow, drag the edge
of the toolbar.
You can change the size of the View manager toolbar only when the toolbar
is undocked. For information about undocking a toolbar, see “To dock a
toolbar” on page 21.
The Collaboration palette
The Collaboration palette contains a list of your online meeting contacts, as well as
commands for changing the collaboration status, adding and deleting contacts,
importing User Identifier Files (UIF), and inviting contacts.
Button Description
The Invite this contact button lets you
invite another Corel Grafigo user to
participate in a collaboration session.
The Leave this session button lets you
leave a collaboration session and assign host
privileges to another participant.
The Import user identifier file button lets
you import a User Identifier File (UIF).
The Export user identifier file button lets
you export a User Identifier File (UIF).
The Delete this contact button lets you
remove a contact from your contact list.
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To open or close the Collaboration palette
•Tap Collaborate on the standard toolbar.
When the Collaboration palette is open, the Collaborate button appears pressed.
To change the size of the Collaboration palette
• Point to the edge of the Collaboration palette and, using the two-directional
arrow, drag the edge of the palette.
Changing workspace options
In Corel Grafigo, you can change the default workspace settings according to your
preferences.
Toolbars can be either docked or floating. Docking a toolbar attaches it to the top or
bottom edge of the program window. Undocking a toolbar pulls it away from the edge
of the program window, so that it “floats” and can be easily moved around. You can
change the size of toolbars. You can also hide toolbars.
You can change the size of buttons on toolbars.
The workspace display can be changed by adding a background color.
You can also add a grid. The grid is a series of intersecting lines that can help you align
and position ink strokes accurately. You can display or hide the grid. You can change
the color of the grid to make it stand out against the workspace background.
The grid can be displayed in the workspace to aid in object and ink placement.
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To dock a to olb ar
• Place the tablet pen on the grab area of a toolbar , and do one of the following:
• Drag the bar to the top or bottom edge of the program window — to dock the
standard toolbar, the toolbox, or the Library toolbar
• Drag the bar to the top or bottom edge of the program window — to dock the
View manager toolbar
To undock a toolbar
• Place the tablet pen on the grab area of a toolbar , and drag the bar to a
new position.
With the exception of the View manager toolbar, which is docked to the
bottom edge of the program window, all toolbars are docked by default to
the top edge of the program window.
To change the size of a toolbar
1Tap Settings on the standard toolbar.
2Tap the Wor k a r ea tab.
3In the Display area, enable the Small or Large option.
4Tap OK.
To display or hide a toolbar
• Double-tap the grab area of a toolbar.
When a toolbar is hidden, only its grab area is visible.
You can display or hide a toolbar only when it is undocked.
To change the size of buttons on a toolbar
1Tap Settings on the standard toolbar.
2Tap the Wor k a r ea tab.
3In the Display area, enable the Small or Large option.
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