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Table of Contents

Introduction
Welcome to CorelDRAW . . . . . . 3
About Corel Corporation . . . . . . . 3
Corel support and services . . . . . . 4
Customer Service . . . . . . . . 6
Installing and uninstalling applications . . . . 7
Registering CorelDRAW . . . . . . . 7
Using CorelDRAW Help . . . . . . . 8
CorelDRAW terms . . . . . . . . 9
Exploring the work area. . . . . . . 10
Exploring the toolbox . . . . . . . 13
Getting started. . . . . . . . 17
Starting and opening drawings . . . . . 17
Using the basic features of CorelDRAW. . . . 19
Undoing, redoing, and repeating actions . . . 19
Specifying the page layout . . . . . . 20
Adding, renaming, and deleting pages. . . . 22
Accessing drawing information . . . . . 23
Setting up the rulers . . . . . . . 23
Zooming and panning . . . . . . . 24
Saving drawings . . . . . . . . 26
Closing drawings and quitting CorelDRAW . . . 27

Drawing
Using lines, outlines, and brush strokes . . 31
Drawing lines . . . . . . . . . 31
Applying brush strokes . . . . . . . 34
Drawing shapes . . . . . . . 37
Drawing rectangles and squares . . . . . 37
Drawing ellipses, circles, arcs, and wedges . . . 38
Drawing polygons and stars . . . . . . 39
Drawing spirals. . . . . . . . . 40
Drawing grids . . . . . . . . . 41
Drawing pre-defined shapes . . . . . . 41
Working with objects . . . . . . 43
Selecting objects . . . . . . . . 43
Copying, duplicating, and deleting objects . . . 45
Positioning objects . . . . . . . . 47
Sizing and scaling objects . . . . . . 48
Skewing and stretching objects . . . . . 49
Rotating and mirroring objects . . . . . 51
Changing the order of objects . . . . . 52
Grouping and combining objects . . . . . 53
Aligning, distributing, and snapping objects . . 54
Cloning objects. . . . . . . . . 56
Blending objects . . . . . . . . 56
Spraying objects along a line. . . . . . 61
Shaping objects . . . . . . . 65
Applying distortion effects . . . . . . 65
Shaping objects using envelopes . . . . . 67
Working with curve objects . . . . . . 68
Creating PowerClip objects . . . . . . 71
Creating Web-enabled objects . . . . 73
Creating Web-compatible text. . . . . . 73
Using preset Internet objects. . . . . . 74
Creating rollovers . . . . . . . . 76
Working with bookmarks and hyperlinks . . . 77

Filling and Coloring
Filling objects . . . . . . . . 81
Applying uniform fills . . . . . . . 81
Applying fountain fills . . . . . . . 82
Applying pattern fills . . . . . . . 84
Applying texture fills . . . . . . . 86
Working with fills . . . . . . . . 88
Working with color. . . . . . . 91
Choosing colors. . . . . . . . . 91
Reproducing colors accurately . . . . . 93
Reference: Working with color . . . . . 97
Adding 3-D effects to objects . . . . 103
Contouring objects. . . . . . . . 103
Applying perspective to objects . . . . . 105
Creating vector extrusions . . . . . . 106
Creating bitmapped extrusions . . . . . 110
Creating drop shadows. . . . . . . 113
Changing the transparency of objects . . 115
Applying a transparency. . . . . . . 115
Applying merge modes. . . . . . . 119

Working with Bitmaps
Working with bitmapped images . . . 123
Adding bitmapped images . . . . . . 123
Cropping and editing bitmapped images . . . 124
Applying special effects to bitmapped images . . 125

Working with text
Working with text. . . . . . . 131
Adding and selecting text . . . . . . 131
Finding, editing, and converting text. . . . 133
Moving text . . . . . . . . . 134
Changing the appearance of text. . . . . 134
Formatting paragraph text . . . . . . 135
Shaping text . . . . . . . . 141
Wrapping text around objects and text . . . 141
Fitting text to a path . . . . . . . 142
Managing fonts . . . . . . . 145
Substituting unavailable fonts . . . . . 145

Input and output
Printing . . . . . . . . . 149
Printing your work. . . . . . . . 149
Laying out print jobs . . . . . . . 150
Previewing print jobs . . . . . . . 152
Commercial printing . . . . . . . 153
Preparing a print job for a service bureau . . . 153
Working with imposition layouts. . . . . 155
Printing printerís marks. . . . . . . 157
Specifying In-RIP trapping settings . . . . 160
Publishing to PDF. . . . . . . 165
Saving documents as PDF files . . . . . 165
Publishing to the Web. . . . . . 167
Preparing files and objects for Web publishing . . 167
Publishing to HTML . . . . . . . 169
Importing and exporting files . . . . 171
Importing files. . . . . . . . . 171
Exporting files. . . . . . . . . 172

Reference
Reference information . . . . . . 177