Coreldraw Graphics Suite x4 Reviewers Guide
Coreldraw Graphics Suite x4 Reviewers Guide
Contents
1 | Introducing CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 ....................1 2 | Customer Profiles.............................................................3
Design professionals ............................................................................................ 3 Occasional graphics users .................................................................................... 3
5 | Summary of New and Enhanced Features ...................19 6 | Design Gallery ................................................................23 7 | About Corel ....................................................................28
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Introducing CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 is an affordable and comprehensive suite of intuitive page-layout, illustration, photo-editing, and bitmap-to-vector tracing applications. The trusted choice of professional and aspiring designers, the suite includes new tools that fuel the creative process, simplify project management, and optimize the graphic design workflow. Users of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 can confidently tackle a wide variety of projects from logos and Web graphics to multipage brochures and eyecatching signs. With its text and page-layout enhancements, market-leading file format compatibility, and high-quality content, this powerful suite is the ultimate design partner to help users turn inspiration into stunning results. For increased design flexibility, CorelDRAW X4 now lets users create independent layers for each page of a document. The new CorelDRAW ConceptShare docker is a valuable online collaboration tool, and the ability to import PDF files with comments makes it easier than ever to work with colleagues and clients. In addition to providing its redesigned workspace icons, menus, and controls, CorelDRAW X4 includes an enhanced Print Merge wizard, a new Table tool for drawing and editing tables, and integration with WhatTheFont the font identification service from MyFonts.com. With Corel PHOTO-PAINT X4, the workspace icons, menus, and controls have also been redesigned and many image-adjustment features now have an integrated histogram, which provides visual feedback in real time. Users can now work with raw camera files more easily, and new thumbnail previews make it easier to find files. In addition, Corel PowerTRACE X4 has been enhanced to give users more control over bitmap-to-vector conversion. Rounding out the suite, Corel CAPTURE X4 is a screen-capture utility that lets users copy images of their computer screens in a single click. With the new Welcome screen, users have a centralized location to start new projects, access recently used documents, get instructional information, and view inspiring designs from other CorelDRAW Graphics Suite users around the world. Plus, the CorelDRAW Handbook Insights from the Experts provides artwork, helpful advice, and design techniques from professional designers.
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Customer Profiles
Design professionals
Design 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 X4 gives them innovative design tools that optimize their workflow. Other design 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 X4 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 X4 gives them market-leading compatibility with commonly used file formats.
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Whats Included with CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4?
Applications
CorelDRAW X4: CorelDRAW X4 is an intuitive vector-illustration and page-layout application that meets the demands of todays busy design professionals and occasional graphics users. It delivers results fast, whether users are creating a company logo or working toward demanding production schedules. Corel PHOTO-PAINT X4: Corel PHOTO-PAINT X4 is a professional image-editing application that lets users quickly and easily retouch and enhance photos. It is specifically designed for use in a graphics workflow. Corel PowerTRACE X4: Professional designers often receive poor-quality bitmap images from clients and face the challenge of turning these bitmaps into high-quality vector images for business cards, brochures, signs, or other promotional items. Corel PowerTRACE X4 solves this problem by letting users quickly and accurately convert bitmaps into editable vector graphics. Corel CAPTURE X4: Corel CAPTURE X4 is a one-click screen-capture utility that lets users capture images from their computer screens.
Supporting applications
Barcode wizard: The Barcode wizard lets users generate bar codes in a wide range of industry-standard formats. Service Bureau Profiler: The Service Bureau Profiler helps users prepare their work for professional output. Duplexing wizard: The Duplexing wizard helps users optimize their work for printing two-sided documents. Bitstream Font Navigator: The Bitstream Font Navigator is an awardwinning font manager for the Windows operating system. It lets users manage, find, install, and preview fonts.
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Content
A collection of more than 10,000 high-quality clipart and digital images includes 4,000 new images, all of which were individually selected to meet the needs of design professionals and occasional graphics users New! 1,000 professional high-resolution digital photos 1,000 OpenType fonts, including 75 Windows Glyph List 4 (WGL4) fonts and 10 single-line engraving fonts 80 professionally designed templates
Documentation
User guide CorelDRAW Handbook Insights from the Experts Digital content guide Quick-reference card Help files
Training
2 hours of training videos on DVD
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Top New and Enhanced Features
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 is an affordable and comprehensive suite that combines intuitive page-layout, illustration, photo-editing, and bitmap-to-vector tracing applications. The trusted choice of professional and aspiring designers, the suite includes new tools that fuel the creative process, simplify project management, and optimize the graphic design workflow.
New! Modernized user interface (UI): For CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4, the user interface has been redesigned. New icons, menus, and controls give the applications a fresh appearance and provide a more intuitive working environment.
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The new Centerline Trace method is ideal for tracing line drawings or signatures.
Give it a try
Using the Centerline Trace method
1 In CorelDRAW X4, click File ` Import. 2 In the Import dialog box, browse to the folder that contains a bitmap of a line drawing or a signature that you want to trace, select the bitmap, and click Import. 3 On the drawing page, click where you want to place the bitmap, or to center the bitmap on the page, click Enter. 4 Click Bitmaps ` Centerline Trace, and choose one of the following: Technical illustration to trace black-and-white illustrations with thin, faint lines Line drawing to trace black-and-white sketches with thick, prominent lines If necessary, adjust the traced results by using the controls in the PowerTRACE dialog box.
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Enhanced! Print Merge: With CorelDRAW X4, the Print Merge wizard
makes it easier than ever to combine text from a data source with a drawing. As a result, invitations, labels, certificates, or other projects that place unique, personalized text on the same design are faster and easier to produce. In addition, users now have the ability to output a print merge to the CorelDRAW file format (CDR). CorelDRAW X4 supports the following data sources: text (TXT), comma-separated values (CSV), Rich Text Format (RTF), and other files supported by Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) data sources.
New! Dynamic product updates: With CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4, the
Welcome screen is a valuable resource that provides users with immediate access to new content, tips and tricks, product registration, and the latest product updates. From within the application, users can choose to install product updates automatically or to receive notification when updates are available.
Enhanced! Windows Vista integration: CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 has been designed to take advantage of the latest innovations from the Windows Vista operating system. From within the operating system dialog boxes, users can search for files by author, subject, file type, date, keywords, or other file properties. Users can also easily add keywords or other notes when
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saving files in order to better organize their projects. In addition, users can edit file properties from within the CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 applications or from Windows Explorer and Windows Vista Search. Users of Windows XP can use Windows Desktop Search or any other desktop search application that supports the iFilter format.
New! Template search and preview: In CorelDRAW X4, the New From Template dialog box has been completely redesigned to provide users with more information so that they can easily choose the right template for the job. Users can now preview templates by Type, such as flyer or postcard, or by Industry, such as hospitality, retail, or services. Users can also search for templates by using keywords. New! Professionally designed templates: CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4
includes more than 80 professionally designed and customizable templates, which give users a great starting point for their designs. Flexible and easy to repurpose, the templates are now accompanied by Designer Notes. These notes provide information on the design choices made for the template, tips for outputting a design based on the template, and instructions for customizing the template while still adhering to design principles.
An abundance of customizable templates are a great starting point for design projects.
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New! File format support: CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 maintains its position as market leader in file format compatibility by adding support for Microsoft Publisher (versions 2002, 2003, and 2007). Users can also expect seamless compatibility with Microsoft Word 2007, AutoCAD DXF and AutoCAD DWG (versions R2.5 to 2007), and Corel Painter X, making it easier than ever to exchange files with colleagues and clients. New! Thumbnail previews: New, high-quality thumbnail previews make it easier to find and organize CorelDRAW and Corel PHOTO-PAINT files.
High-quality thumbnail previews make it easier for users to find their files.
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The new Table tool makes it easy to create a structured layout with graphic elements embedded in table cells.
Give it a try
Creating a table
1 In CorelDRAW X4, click the Table tool in the toolbox.
2 On the property bar, type values in the Number of rows and columns boxes. The value you type in the top portion specifies the number of rows; the value you type in the bottom portion specifies the number of columns. 3 Drag diagonally to draw the table.
New! Independent page layers: With CorelDRAW X4, users can now control and edit layers independently for each page of a document, reducing the occurrence of pages with empty layers. Users can also add independent guidelines for individual pages and master guidelines for an entire document. This gives users the ability to create different layers on a page-specific basis, unconfined by a single document structure. In addition, the new Duplicate Page command gives users the flexibility to copy a page with all objects included or just the layer structure, making it easier to repurpose existing designs.
Give it a try
Working with independent page layers
1 In CorelDRAW X4, click File ` New. 2 Click Window ` Dockers ` Object Manager.
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Give it a try
3 In the upper-right corner of the Object Manager docker, click the flyout button, and click New Layer. 4 Type a name for the new layer, or click to accept the default naming convention (Layer 2). Page 1 of your document now has two independent layers. To make a layer active, click the layer name. The name of the active layer is indicated by a bold red font. 5 To create a new page, click the flyout button in the top right corner of the Object Manager docker, and click New Page. 6 Repeat steps 3 and 4 to create a new layer. Page 2 of your document now has two independent layers.
Give it a try
Previewing text formatting
1 In CorelDRAW X4, click the Text tool in the toolbox.
2 Drag in the drawing window to size the paragraph text frame, and type to add text. 3 On the property bar, click the Font List list box, and scroll through the available fonts. As you hover over a font, CorelDRAW X4 displays a preview of how that font will look when applied to your document.
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New! Mirror paragraph text: With CorelDRAW X4, users can now
interactively mirror text. Users can mirror text horizontally or vertically, or both, which is essential for outputting content for certain specialized devices.
Give it a try
Mirroring paragraph text
1 In CorelDRAW X4, click the Text tool in the toolbox.
2 On the drawing page, drag to create a paragraph text frame. 3 Type to add text to the frame. 4 On the property bar, click one or both of the following buttons: Mirror horizontally flips the text characters from left to right Mirror vertically flips the text characters from top to bottom
Enhanced! Quotation marks: CorelDRAW X4 users can now customize quotation marks for specific languages. Users can edit quotation mark styles and choose which style is used when typing in different languages. For example, users can change the style of double, single, and straight quotation marks for a specific language.
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New! Training videos: CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 includes 2 hours of training videos on DVD. Topics include illustration, design, and image-editing fundamentals, industry-specific design principles, and output details for various media, such as print or the Web. Enhanced! CorelTUTOR: With CorelTUTOR, users can access online,
project-based tutorials that help them learn and use the applications. In addition to touring the workspaces of both CorelDRAW X4 and Corel PHOTO-PAINT X4, users can learn how to work with page-layout features, get started with bitmapto-vector tracing, try the enhanced print-merge functionality, create a logo, and much more.
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CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 lets users work with raw camera files.
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New! Straighten image: With CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4, users can
quickly and easily straighten images that were scanned or photographed at an angle. The interactive controls, a grid with vertical and horizontal guidelines, and an integrated histogram that provides results in real time, make it easier than ever to straighten crooked images. In addition, users can choose to have their images automatically cropped.
Give it a try
Straightening an image
1 In Corel PHOTO-PAINT X4, open an image that you want to straighten. 2 Click Adjust ` Straighten Image. 3 In the Straighten Image dialog box, move the Rotate image slider, or type a value between 15 and -15 in the Rotate image box. 4 To crop and straighten the image, enable the Crop image check box. The image is cropped to preserve the aspect ratio of the original image, which means that the final image is smaller than the original image. If you want to preserve the width and height of the original image, enable the Crop and resample to original size check box. The final image is resampled. 5 When you are satisfied with the result, click OK.
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Users now receive real-time feedback when adjusting the tone curve of an image.
Give it a try
Adjusting the tone curve of an image
1 In Corel PHOTO-PAINT X4, open an image that requires tone and color adjustments. 2 Click Adjust ` Tone Curve. 3 In the Tone Curve dialog box, use the tone curve on the graph to adjust the balance between the shadows, midtones, and highlights of the image. The x-axis of the graph represents the tonal values of the original image; the y-axis of the graph represents the adjusted tonal values. 4 To undo any unsatisfactory adjustments, click the Reset button. 5 When you are satisfied with the result, click OK.
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Summary of New and Enhanced Features
The following is a list of the new and enhanced features offered by CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4.
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Access online, project-based instruction with new and updated tutorials from CorelTUTOR. Visit CorelDRAW.com and share designs, ideas, and inspiration with this growing online community.
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Design Gallery
As a trusted and versatile design tool, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite has been embraced by graphic design professionals around the world, in areas as diverse as airbrushing murals, vehicle illustration, magazine layout, and fashion design. In the following pages, youll find examples of the imagination and passion that CorelDRAW Graphics Suite users bring to their projects.
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About Corel
Corel is a leading developer of graphics, productivity, and digital media software, with more than 100 million users worldwide. The companys product portfolio includes some of the worlds most popular and widely recognized software brands, including CorelDRAW Graphics Suite, Corel Paint Shop Pro, Corel Painter, Corel DESIGNER, Corel WordPerfect Office, WinZip, and iGrafx. In 2006, Corel acquired InterVideo, makers of WinDVD, and Ulead, a leading developer of video, imaging, and DVD authoring software. Designed to help people become more productive and express their creative potential, Corels full-featured software products set a higher standard for value in being easier to learn and use. The industry has responded with hundreds of awards recognizing Corels leadership in software innovation, design, and value. Corels products are sold in more than 75 countries through a wellestablished network of international resellers, retailers, original equipment manufacturers, online providers, and Corels global Web sites. With its headquarters in Ottawa, Canada, the company has major offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, China, and Japan. Corels stock is traded on the NASDAQ under the symbol CREL and on the TSX under the symbol CRE.
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