Get familiar with CorelDRAW 12 - Lesson 1: Set up the drawing page

Since today, we began to introduce you to a popular graphics software, CorelDRAW. The basic guidelines for readers to learn and practice with this software will be posted weekly in the section Getting familiar with CorelDRAW 12.

When opening a new file, CorelDRAW 12 working screen appears a rectangle on the screen that is Corel's drawing page.

To view the properties and set the rendering of the drawing page, select File - Document Setup - Page Setup , the Options dialog box opens.

Page section with 3 options (Figure 1, 2):

- 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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