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Cropping and erasing objects

You can crop and erase portions of objects.

Cropping objects

Cropping lets you quickly remove unwanted areas in objects and imported photos, eliminating the need to ungroup objects, break linked groups apart, or convert objects to curves. You can crop vector objects and bitmaps.

Cropping objects

When cropping objects, you define a rectangular area (cropping area) that you want to keep. Object portions outside the cropping area are removed. You can specify the exact position and size of the cropping area, and you can rotate and resize it. You can also remove the cropping area.

You can crop only selected objects without affecting other objects in a drawing, or you can crop all objects on the drawing page. In either case, the affected text and shape objects are automatically converted to curves.

Erasing image areas

CorelDRAW lets you erase unwanted portions of bitmaps and vector objects. The Eraser tool works just like a pencil eraser, removing any part of the image over which you click and drag. If you want to erase only portions of a specific object, you have to select it. When no object is selected, the Eraser tool removes any part of the drawing over which you drag. For information about selecting objects, see Selecting objects. Erasing automatically closes any affected paths and converts the object to curves. If you erase connecting lines, CorelDRAW creates subpaths rather than individual objects. You cannot erase objects with contours, blends, drop shadows, block shadows, and extrusions.

When working with a pen or stylus, you can use pressure to vary the size of the eraser nib. If your pen or stylus supports tilt and bearing, you can use these features to vary the flatness and rotation of the eraser nib. You can also set fixed values for the tilt angle and bearing angle so that the flatness and rotation of the nib remain the same.

You can use your stylus to vary the size and flatness of the eraser nib.

Deleting virtual line segments

You can also delete virtual line segments, which are portions of objects that overlap each other. For example, you can delete a loop in a line that crosses over itself, or loops in line segments in which two or more objects overlap.

To crop an object or imported photo Back to Top

 

Type values in the Crop position boxes on the property bar, and press Enter.
Type values in the Crop size boxes on the property bar, and press Enter.
Type values in the Angle of rotation box.
Click the Clear crop marquee button.

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Objects on locked, hidden, Grid, or Guides layers cannot be cropped. Also, you cannot crop OLE and Internet objects, rollovers, or the content of PowerClip objects.

During cropping, affected linked groups, such as contours, blends, and extrusions, are automatically broken apart.

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You can move, rotate, and size the cropping area interactively as you would any object. To move the cropping area, drag it to a new position. To size the cropping area, drag any of its handles. To rotate the cropping area, click inside, and drag a rotation handle .

You can remove the cropping area by pressing Esc.

To erase an image area Back to Top

 

 

Type a value in the Eraser thickness box on the property bar, and press Enter.
Click the Round nib or the Square nib button on the property bar.
Click the Pen pressure button on the property bar to enable it.
Click the Pen tilt button on the property bar to enable it.
Click the Pen tilt button on the property bar to disable it, and type a value in the Tilt angle box.
Click the Pen bearing button on the property bar to enable it.
Click the Pen bearing button on the property bar to disable it, and type a value in the Bearing angle box.
Disable the Reduce nodes button on the property bar.

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When you erase portions of objects, any affected paths are automatically closed.

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You can erase straight lines by clicking where you want to start erasing, and then clicking where you want to finish erasing. Press Ctrl if you want to constrain the line’s angle.

You can also erase an area of a selected object by double-clicking the area with the Eraser tool.

To delete a virtual line segment Back to Top

 

Hold down Alt, and drag to draw a curve.
Hold down Shift, click the two overlapping end points. You can also hold down Alt + Shift, and drag to marquee select the overlapping nodes.

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The Virtual segment delete tool does not work on linked groups such as drop shadows, text, or images.

Deleting virtual line segments

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