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CorelDRAW X8.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bouton, Gary David.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: : McGraw-Hill Education, 2017.
Edition:12th ed.
Subjects:
Electronic books.
Online Access:View fulltext via EzAccess
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Contents at a Glance
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART I Student Orientation Weekend
  • CHAPTER 1 Welcome! What's New (and Also Exciting) in CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X8!
  • If You're New to Vector Drawing Programs
  • What Vector Drawing Is and Isn't
  • Your One-Stop Shop for Extra Content: CorelCONNECT
  • Get Started from the Get-Go
  • The CorelDRAW Application Window
  • CONNECTing to Your Workspace
  • Using Your Universal Connection
  • From Corel Content to Your Content, "Add to Page" Style
  • From Corel's Content Server to CorelDRAW's Tray
  • So What Else Is New?
  • The Elliptical Fountain Fill
  • An Improved Knife Tool
  • Copying Paths
  • Making Use of the New Copy Segment Feature
  • CHAPTER 2 The Roadmap to Features and Productivity in DRAW
  • The CorelDRAW Workspace
  • The Page Shadow: It's a Command Control
  • Defining and Saving a Custom Page Size
  • Page Options on the Property Bar
  • Can You Give Me a Hint?
  • CTRL, ALT, and SHIFT Are Your Friends
  • Choosing Tones from the Color Wells
  • Surprises When You Right-click and Use the Wheel
  • Tapping into the Power of the Right-click Menu
  • Dropping a Copy of a Selected Object
  • Page Navigation: Panning and Zooming the Smart Way
  • Not to be Overlooked on the Standard Bar...
  • Shortcut Keys You'll Want to Memorize
  • Global versus Local
  • A Brief Anatomy Lesson on Dockers
  • Opening, Moving, and Closing Dockers
  • Nested (Grouped) Dockers
  • CHAPTER 3 Diving In to DRAW!
  • Working with the Star Tool to Build a Pattern
  • Making the Background: Putting the Star Tool to Work
  • Tweaking the Star Object
  • Reshaping a Star: Technique 1
  • Reshaping a Star: Technique 2
  • Making a Pattern of Stars
  • Creating More Stars Than a Hollywood Agent
  • Rotating and Scaling to Populate the Pattern Area.
  • Shaping Operations and Combining Objects
  • Trimming the Stars to the Background and Beyond
  • An Introduction to Enveloping Objects
  • Enveloping and Trimming the Welded Stars
  • Adding Shading to Your Composition
  • Adding Lighting to the Beach Ball
  • Adding Highlights and a Shadow
  • Blending Yourself a Cast Shadow
  • Making a Cast Shadow with Blends
  • Adding a Background and a Floor in Perspective
  • A Starry Ball Sitting on a Floral Rug
  • Completing the Composition with Embellishments
  • Framing Your Composition
  • PART II Getting Started with CorelDRAW X8
  • CHAPTER 4 Working with Single- and Multipage Documents
  • Setting Up Your Document Page
  • Controlling Page Size and Orientation
  • Paper Type/Size
  • Page Viewing Options
  • Controlling Page Background Color
  • Changing a Background Bitmap
  • Using Layouts and Labels
  • Naming Pages
  • Using the Rename Page Command
  • Saving Details with Your File
  • Navigating a Multipage Document
  • Using the Object Manager
  • Page Commands
  • Inserting Pages and Setting Options
  • Deleting Pages
  • Moving and Duplicating Pages
  • Using the Page Sorter
  • Working with Guidelines and Guide Layers
  • Using Guidelines
  • Working with the Guides Layer
  • Making an Object a Guideline
  • The New Alignment and Dynamic Guides Docker
  • Alignment Properties on the Docker
  • Adding Margins to the Mix
  • Dynamic Guides
  • CHAPTER 5 Creating Basic Shapes, Applying Transformations
  • Using the Rectangle Tool and Property Bar
  • Drawing a Rectangle
  • Setting Rectangle Corner Properties
  • Creating 3-Point Rectangles
  • Using the Ellipse Tool and Property Bar
  • Drawing an Ellipse
  • Round 1 with the Ellipse Tool
  • Controlling Ellipse States
  • Creating 3-Point Ellipses
  • Using Polygons and the Property Bar
  • Drawing and Editing Polygons
  • Reshaping a Polygon
  • Stars and Complex Stars
  • Using the Spiral Tool.
  • Using the Graph Paper Tool
  • Power-Drawing a Grid with Graph Paper
  • Using the Convert Outline to Object Command
  • CHAPTER 6 Arranging and Organizing Objects
  • Basic Object Selection
  • Pick Tool Selections
  • Picking and Freehand Picking
  • Selection Techniques
  • Selecting Objects by Type
  • Moving Objects
  • Using the Pick Tool
  • Using Nudge Keys
  • Transforming Objects
  • Transforming Objects Using the Cursor
  • Off-center Object Rotation to Create a Design
  • Using the Free Transform Tool
  • Straightening Objects via Attributes
  • Applying Precise Transformations
  • Positioning (Moving) Objects
  • Rotating Objects
  • Scale and Mirror Objects
  • Sizing Objects
  • Precision Skewing
  • Controlling the Order of Things
  • Working with Views of a Document's Depth: Layers
  • Exploring the Object Manager
  • Navigating Pages, Objects, and Layers
  • Navigating and Mastering Layers
  • Using Object Manager Editing and View States
  • Controlling Layer Properties
  • Working with Master Page Layers
  • Working with Master Page Items
  • PART III Working with DRAWing Tools
  • CHAPTER 7 Choosing (and Understanding) the Right Path Tools
  • Sidling Up to CorelDRAW's Curve Tools
  • How to Draw in CorelDRAW
  • Drawing with Freehand and Polyline Tools
  • Drawing Arcs with the 3-Point Curve Tool
  • 3-Point Curves and Closed Objects
  • The 2-Point Line Tool
  • Using the Bézier and Pen Tools
  • Getting a Handle on Béziers
  • Drawing Curves and Straight Line Segments
  • Editing Bézier Paths
  • Editing Paths with the Shape Tool
  • Copying and Pasting Subpaths
  • Increasing the Number of Holes in Swiss Cheese
  • Controlling Freehand and Bézier Tool Behavior
  • Working with Compound Paths
  • Combining Objects
  • Breaking Paths Apart
  • Converting Objects to Curves
  • CHAPTER 8 Exploring Special Shapes, Connectors, and Other Office Automation Helpers.
  • CorelDRAW's Smart Drawing Tool
  • CAD: CorelDRAW-Assisted Drawing
  • Reshaping a Perfect Shape
  • Using Perfect Shape Tools
  • Creating Perfect Objects
  • Editing Glyph Nodes
  • Working with the Dimension Tools
  • Using Dimension Tools
  • Checking Out Dimension Lines
  • Using Dimension Lines
  • Segment Dimensions
  • An Exercise in Dimensioning to Scale
  • Drawing Scale, Windows Calculator, and Dimension Lines
  • Working with Callouts
  • The Connector Tools
  • Tables
  • Creating a Table
  • Using the Proper Tool for the Job
  • Table Options When the Pick Tool Is Active
  • Table Options When the Shape Tool Is Active
  • Editing a Table When the Table Tool Is Active
  • Working with Text and Graphics in a Table
  • Converting a Table to Text
  • Converting an Existing Text to a Table
  • CHAPTER 9 Editing Objects, Rearranging Paths, and Using Boolean Ops
  • Shaping and Reshaping Object Shapes
  • Shaping Commands and the Property Bar
  • Working Examples of Object Shaping
  • Getting Nutty With the Trim Operation
  • Fillet/Scallop/Chamfer
  • Down and Dirty and the Shape Tool
  • Reshaping Objects With the Shape Tool
  • Editing Shapes via Their Nodes and Control Points
  • PowerClips
  • PowerClipping a Design Onto an Object
  • The Knife Tool
  • Types of Cuts With the Knife Tool
  • Setting Knife Tool Behavior
  • Using the Eraser Tool
  • Working With Eraser Operations
  • Power Erasing
  • Setting Eraser Tool Properties
  • The Reduce Nodes Option
  • Using the Virtual Segment Delete Tool
  • Cropping an Illustration
  • PART IV Working with Text in Composition
  • CHAPTER 10 Paragraph Text, Artistic Text, and When (and How) to Use Them
  • CorelDRAW's Text Tool
  • Entering and Editing Artistic Text
  • Options for Formatting Characters
  • Use the Property Bar to Change Characters
  • Using Object Styles with Paragraph Text
  • Combining and Breaking Apart Artistic Text.
  • Converting Artistic Text to Curves
  • Entering and Editing Paragraph Text
  • Creating Linked Paragraph Text Frames
  • Wrapping Text Around Other Shapes
  • Fitting Text to Curve
  • Text Along a Curve
  • Embedding Objects into Text
  • Using the Insert Character Docker
  • Using the Symbol Manager
  • Creating, Saving, and Using Symbols
  • CorelDRAW's Font Playground: Take a Ride!
  • CHAPTER 11 Intermediate Desktop Publishing and Proofing Tools
  • A Few Paragraphs Covering Advanced Paragraph Features
  • Working With Columns
  • Column Settings
  • Moving Text Within a Paragraph
  • Converting Between Artistic Text and Paragraph Text
  • The Text Bar and Special Paragraph Formatting
  • Formatting Bulleted Lists
  • Creating a Bullet Motif
  • Changing Text Case
  • Formatting Paragraph Text
  • Paragraph Alignment
  • Spacing
  • Paragraph and Line Spacing
  • Language, Character, and Word Spacing
  • Indentation and Margins of Paragraph Text
  • Formatting Tabs
  • Adding, Moving, and Deleting Tabs from the Dialog
  • Formatting Tab Leaders from the Dialog
  • Using the Ruler to Set Tabs
  • Take Me to Your Leader
  • Spelling and Grammar
  • Using CorelDRAW's Writing Tools
  • Assigning Language Codes
  • Using the Proofing Tools
  • Common Buttons
  • Setting Spell Checker Options
  • Using Word Lists
  • Using Main Word Lists
  • Other Spell-Checking Options
  • Main Spell-Checking Options
  • Using Grammatik
  • Checking and Correcting Grammar
  • Turning Grammatik's Rules On and Off
  • Using the Thesaurus
  • Setting Thesaurus Options
  • Finding and Replacing Text and Special Characters
  • Finding Text
  • Replacing Text
  • PART V Attributes for Objects and Lines
  • CHAPTER 12 Options for Filling Objects
  • Examining the Fill Types
  • Using the Color Palette
  • From Uniform to Non-Uniform Object Filling
  • Customizing Your Fountain Fills
  • Editing a Fountain Fill In-Place.
  • Uniform Color Fill Options on the Property Bar.

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