Get Familiar with Coreldraw 12 - Lesson 1: Set up the Drawing Page

Get Familiar with Coreldraw 12 - Lesson 1: Set up the Drawing Page covers the essential facts behind the topic, including what changed, why it mattered, and how it affected users.

Page Overview

- Show page border: mark this option to display the page frame

- Show printable area: mark this option to inform the printer print range and print page size - Show bleed area: the area helps to avoid errors due to details spilling out of the edge of the finished product Item Size (Figure 3):

- Portrait and Landscape icons allow you to choose the orientation of a vertical or horizontal page - Paper: the size of the drawing page - Width and Height: indicates the length and width of the drawing page, corresponding to the paper size selection of the drawing page Section Layout: there are 6 types of page layout, depending on the purpose of use, we choose the corresponding layout. - Full Page: default page layout (Figure 4)

- Book: divide the page into two equal parts vertically. Each section is a separate page printed in two pages (Figure 5).

- Booklet: similar to Book style but when printing the grafted pages together to be able to close into a book (Figure 6)

- Tent Card: divided into equal halves (Figure 7)

- Side Fold Card: divide the page into four sections horizontally and vertically. After printing, it will be folded horizontally first and vertically (Figure 8)

- Top Fold Card: same as Side Fold Card but folds vertically first and then horizontally (Figure 9)

Background items: there are 3 options - No Background: does not display the background color - Solid Background: Displays the background color as the uniform color for the drawing page - Bitmap: use Bitmap image as background for drawing page View drawing information: Select File - Documents Info. The effect information, fill color, typeface. Applied in the drawing are shown in this dialog box. You can view one or more information about File, Documents, graphics Objects. By selecting it. Select Save As to save this information as text (Figure 10).

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