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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