Corel Graphics Suite X5 User Manual
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Reviewer’s Guide
Contents
1 | Introducing CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5 ....................................................... 2
2 | Customer Profiles............................................................................................... 4
Graphics professionals .................................................................................................................... 4
Graphics non-professionals .............................................................................................................4
3 | What’s Included?................................................................................................ 6
4 | Top New and Enhanced Features....................................................................... 8
Connect to your content..................................................................................................................8
Get going quickly..........................................................................................................................10
Create with confidence .................................................................................................................11
Use color with certainty ................................................................................................................15
Output with ease ..........................................................................................................................18
5 | Summary of New and Enhanced Features ....................................................... 20
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Created by Pedro Júnior
Introducing CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X5
CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X5 is trusted
illustration and design software. Its intuitive and
content-rich environment fits seamlessly into your
workflow to help you express your creative ideas
compellingly. You can get started immediately,
learn as you go, and design with confidence for
any medium.
Connect to your content
With an abundance of new content chosen to
inspire you and provide a springboard for your
own designs, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5
makes sure you can easily connect to your
content. The new Corel
browser that synchronizes with both CorelDRAW
and Corel PHOTO-PAINT
to content on a computer, network, or disc. In
addition, industry-leading support for more than
100 commonly used file formats ensures that you
can collaborate and exchange files with clients
and colleagues.
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CONNECT is a full-screen
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to provide quick access
Get going quickly
It’s never been easier to get started with
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5, regardless of your
experience level. The stunning new guidebook
will inspire you to do more than you thought
possible. It provides techniques and tips for users
of all skill levels and provides a unique
opportunity to learn from professional designers
who use the suite in such industries as fashion
and jewelry design, book illustration, vehicle
wrapping, and product packaging.
Create with confidence
CorelDRAW has an undeniable 20-year legacy in
design innovation and has long been trusted by
professional and aspiring designers alike. With
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5, the introduction
of significant new and enhanced features help
you create with confidence.
A collection of new and enhanced drawing tools
includes a B-Spline tool, scalable arrowheads,
enhanced Connector and Dimension tools, and
the new Segment Dimension tool. In addition,
the Mesh Fill tool has been significantly improved
to help you design multi-colored filled objects
with more fluid color transitions.
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Use color with certainty
This version of the suite represents a complete
change in approach to color management,
assuring you accurate color representation
regardless of your level of expertise. Whether
you’re importing a client’s mock-up, working
with previous designs, or sending a project to a
print shop or manufacturing facility, you can be
certain that your colors are true.
The new Document (CorelDRAW) and Image
(Corel PHOTO-PAINT) palettes help you to save
project-specific colors and to reuse colors from a
previous project. In addition, eyedroppers have
been added to several color dialog boxes, color
palettes, and color pickers, providing you with
more convenient color sampling opportunities.
What’s more, Corel
create high-quality vector images from bitmaps
and produces the best trace results yet. In
addition, more than 2 hours of video tutorials are
included to help you learn how to get more out
of the suite.
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PowerTRACE™ X5 lets you
Output with ease
With its industry-leading file format compatibility,
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5 provides the
flexibility today’s designers need for outputting
their work. The same design may be needed for
Web banners, printed ads or brochures, and
T-shirts, billboards, or digital signs. In addition,
the inclusion of SWiSH miniMax helps you create
Web graphics and animations easier than ever.
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Customer Profiles
Graphics professionals
Graphics professionals in advertising and
printing industries spend much of their time
creating and editing graphics, working with text,
and retouching photos. With time-saving features
such as interactive layout tables, live text
formatting, and independent page layers,
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5 gives them
innovative design tools that optimize their
workflow.
Other
graphics professionals focus primarily on
sign making, screen printing, and engraving.
These users frequently repurpose and combine
such content as graphic designs, scanned logos,
clipart images, and fonts. With powerful imageediting capabilities, specialized fonts, tracing
software that turns bitmaps into editable vector
graphics, and high-quality content,
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5 gives them a
comprehensive, versatile, and affordable solution.
Creative professionals focus primarily on
graphic design for print and for the Web. In
addition to its intuitive page-layout and design
tools, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5 gives them
market-leading compatibility with commonly
used file formats. The suite also provides several
features developed specifically for creating Web
graphics, such as the new Pixels view, support for
hex color values, and more.
Graphics non-professionals
For entrepreneurs and small to medium-size
businesses interested in creating marketing
materials in-house, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5
provides powerful text and page-layout tools that
ensure professional-looking results. Self-taught in
graphic design, these
confidently turn to CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5
to modify existing designs, to retouch photos,
and to create ads, flyers, and other marketing
collateral.
Business users in medium-size to large
enterprises value the ability to work with more
than 100 file formats as well as create
professional, graphically rich projects — from
sales presentations to Web graphics.
Hobbyists use graphic design software
occasionally to create projects — such as
newsletters, calendars, banners, and photo
layouts — for personal or community use. With
an extensive collection of learning tools,
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5 makes it easy to
create impressive results without professional
training.
occasional users can
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Created by (Po-Hua Lin)
What’s Included?
Applications
• CorelDRAW® X5: This intuitive vectorillustration and page-layout application meets
the demands of today’s busy graphics
professionals and graphics non-professionals.
• Corel PHOTO-PAINT
®
X5: This professional
image-editing application lets you quickly and
easily retouch and enhance photos.
• Corel
®
PowerTRACE™ X5: This utility lets you
quickly and accurately convert bitmaps into
editable vector graphics.
• Corel CAPTURE
™
X5: This one-click screen-
capture utility lets you capture images from
your computer screen.
• Corel
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CONNECT: This full-screen browser
lets you peruse the suite’s digital content and
search your computer or local network to
quickly find the perfect complement for a
design. Fully integrated, it is also available as
a docker in both CorelDRAW and
Corel PHOTO-PAINT.
Supporting applications
• Barcode wizard: The Barcode wizard lets you
generate bar codes in a wide range of industrystandard formats.
• Duplexing wizard: The Duplexing wizard
helps you optimize your work for printing twosided documents.
• Bitstream
Font Navigator is an award-winning font
manager for the Windows
lets you manage, find, install, and preview
fonts.
• SWiSH miniMax: This utility lets you quickly
and easily create stunning interactive
animations, banners, and more.
• PhotoZoom Pro: This plug-in lets you enlarge
digital images and export them from
Corel PHOTO-PAINT X5.
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Font Navigator®: The Bitstream
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operating system. It
Content
• New! More than 2,000 vehicle templates, half
of which are new
• New! More than 350 professionally designed
templates
• More than 1,000 additional OpenType® fonts,
including 75 Windows Glyph List 4 (WGL4) fonts
• A collection of more than 10,000 high-quality
clipart and digital images
Documentation
• New! A completely redesigned, visually rich
Guidebook introduces each application’s
workspace and includes tips and techniques for
users of all skill levels, in-depth tutorials, and
insights from various industry experts
• Quick-reference card
•Help files
Training
• New! More than 2 hours of training videos on
DVD
Minimum system requirements
• Microsoft® Windows® 7, Windows Vista®, or
Windows
(32-bit or 64-bit editions)
•Intel
Opteron
• 512 MB of RAM (1 GB recommended)
• 750 MB of hard disk space (1 GB for typical
installation without content)
• 1024 × 768 or better monitor resolution
(768 × 1024 on a Tablet PC)
• DVD drive
• Mouse or tablet
• Microsoft
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XP, with latest service packs installed
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Pentium® 4, AMD Athlon™ 64 or AMD
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Internet Explorer® 7 or higher
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