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Welcome to CorelDRAW Help

Getting started

Installing CorelDRAW Graphics Suite

System requirements

Preparing for installation

Installing CorelDRAW Graphics Suite applications

Installation options

Modifying and repairing installations

Uninstalling CorelDRAW Graphics Suite

Frequently Asked Questions

Corel accounts and services

Authenticating CorelDRAW Graphics Suite

Checking account settings

Updating Corel products

Changing user credentials

Corel Support Services

About Corel

What’s new in CorelDRAW Graphics Suite?

Creative

Productive

Innovative

Finding out what was new in previous versions

Learning resources

Getting help

Using the Help and tooltips

Using Hints

Welcome screen

Quick Start Guide

Insights from the Experts

Video learning resources

Community website for developers

Network deployment guide

Web-based resources

Starting and setting up

Starting and quitting CorelDRAW

Changing the language

Changing startup settings

CorelDRAW basics

Understanding vector graphics and bitmaps

Starting and opening drawings

Scanning images

Working with multiple drawings

Undoing, redoing, and repeating actions

Zooming, panning, and scrolling

Previewing drawings

Choosing viewing modes

Working with views

Saving drawings

Working with locked files

Backing up and recovering files

Adding and accessing drawing information

Closing drawings

Exploring basic tasks

CorelDRAW workspace tour

CorelDRAW terms

Application window

Standard toolbar

Exploring the toolbox

Finding and managing creative tools and content

Acquiring applications, plug-ins, and content

Finding content with the CONNECT docker

Accessing content

Browsing and searching for content

Syncing trays with OneDrive

Changing content locations

Content types

Touch-enabled devices and wheel devices

Using touch

Using wheel devices

Lines, shapes, and outlines

Working with lines, outlines, and brushstrokes

Drawing lines

Drawing calligraphic and preset lines

Sketching naturally with intelligent stroke adjustment

Formatting lines and outlines

Adding arrowheads to lines and curves

Copying, converting, and removing outlines

Applying brushstrokes

Applying brushstrokes that respond to pen pressure, tilt, and bearing

Spraying objects along a line

Drawing connector and callout lines

Drawing dimension lines

Using pressure-sensitive pens and devices

Drawing shapes

Drawing rectangles and squares

Drawing ellipses, circles, arcs, and pie shapes

Drawing polygons and stars

Drawing spirals

Drawing grids

Drawing predefined shapes

Drawing by using shape recognition

Shaping objects

Using curve objects

Selecting and moving nodes

Aligning and distributing nodes

Manipulating segments

Joining curves

Copying and cutting segments

Adding, removing, and joining nodes

Using node types

Transforming nodes

Breaking the path of curve objects

Mirroring changes in curve objects

Skewing and stretching objects

Smudging and smearing objects

Roughening objects

Smoothing objects

Shaping objects by attracting or pushing away nodes

Applying distortion effects

Adding twirl effects

Shaping objects by using envelopes

Cropping and erasing objects

Splitting objects

Trimming objects

Filleting, scalloping, and chamfering corners

Welding and intersecting objects

Creating PowerClip objects

Setting options for nodes, handles, and previews

Symmetrical drawing

Creating symmetry groups

Editing symmetry groups

Fusing curves in symmetry groups

Removing symmetry and breaking symmetry links

Objects, symbols, and layers

Working with objects

Selecting objects

Transforming objects

Copying, duplicating, and deleting objects

Creating objects from enclosed areas

Creating a boundary around selected objects

Using object coordinates to draw and modify objects

Copying object properties, transformations, and effects

Cloning objects

Positioning objects

Aligning and distributing objects

Applying object hinting

Snapping objects

Using dynamic guides

Using alignment guides

Changing the order of objects

Sizing and scaling objects

Rotating and mirroring objects

Using the Object Properties docker to modify objects

Fitting objects to a path

Grouping objects

Combining objects

Locking objects

Finding and replacing objects

Hiding and displaying objects

Constraining objects

Inserting bar codes

Inserting and editing QR codes

Changing layer properties

Moving and copying layers and objects

Working with symbols

Creating, editing, and deleting symbols

Using symbols in drawings

Managing collections and libraries

Reference: Working with symbols

Linking and embedding objects

Inserting linked or embedded objects

Editing linked or embedded objects

Managing and tracking projects

Setting up the project database

Assigning and copying object data

Viewing an object data summary

Tracking project time

Color, fills, and transparencies

Working with color

Understanding color models

Understanding color depth

Choosing colors

Using the Document palette

Creating and editing custom color palettes

Organizing and displaying color palettes

Displaying or hiding color palettes in the Palette libraries

Setting the properties of color palettes

Applying fills to objects

Applying uniform fills

Applying fountain fills

Applying vector and bitmap pattern fills

Applying two-color pattern fills

Applying texture fills

Applying PostScript fills

Applying mesh fills

Applying fills to areas

Working with fills

Changing the transparency of objects

Applying uniform transparency

Applying fountain transparency

Applying pattern transparency

Applying texture transparency

Copying, freezing, and removing transparencies

Applying merge modes

Finding, managing, and saving fills and transparencies

Finding and viewing fills and transparencies

Managing fills and transparencies

Saving fills and transparencies

Using color management

Understanding color management

Getting started with color management in CorelDRAW

Installing, loading, and embedding color profiles

Assigning color profiles

Converting colors to other color profiles

Choosing color-conversion settings

Soft proofing

Working with color management presets

Working with color management policies

Managing colors when opening documents

Managing colors when importing and pasting files

Managing colors for print

Using a safe CMYK workflow

Managing colors for online viewing

Special effects

Using lenses with objects

Applying lenses

Editing lenses

Adding 3D effects to objects

Contouring objects

Applying perspective

Creating extrusions

Creating bevel effects

Creating drop shadows

Adding block shadows

Blending objects

Creating mosaics

Creating vector mosaics with the Pointillizer effect

Creating bitmap mosaics with the PhotoCocktail effect

Adding movement and focus

Adding impact effects

Text

Adding and manipulating text

Importing and pasting text

Adding artistic text

Adding paragraph text

Adding columns to text frames

Combining and linking paragraph text frames

Aligning text by using the baseline grid

Selecting text

Finding, editing, and converting text

Shifting, rotating, mirroring, and flipping text

Moving text

Wrapping text

Fitting text to a path

Inserting special characters, symbols, and glyphs

Embedding graphics

Working with legacy text

Formatting text

Choosing typefaces and fonts

Formatting characters

Changing text color

Kerning a range of characters

Changing text case

Working with OpenType features

Adjusting character and word spacing

Adjusting line and paragraph spacing

Adding bullets to text

Inserting drop caps

Changing character position and angle

Aligning text

Adding tabs and indents

Working with text styles

Hyphenating text

Inserting formatting codes

Displaying nonprinting characters

Working with text in different languages

Formatting Asian text

Using line-breaking rules for Asian text

OpenType support for Asian text

Formatting multilingual text

Displaying text correctly in any language

Managing fonts

Changing the default font

Choosing fonts with Font Playground

Using Corel Font Manager

Using writing tools

Using QuickCorrect

Using the spelling checker and Grammatik

Using the thesaurus

Working with languages

Customizing the writing tools

Using checking styles

Reference: Using writing tools

Templates and styles

Working with templates

Searching for templates

Using templates

Creating templates

Editing templates

Working with styles and style sets

Creating styles and style sets

Applying styles and style sets

Editing styles and style sets

Managing default object properties

Exporting and importing style sheets

Assigning keyboard shortcuts to styles or style sets

Finding objects that use a specific style or style set

Breaking the link between objects and styles or style sets

Working with color styles

Creating and applying color styles

Editing color styles

Viewing color styles

Exporting and importing color styles

Breaking the link between a color style and an object

Pages and layout

Working with pages and layout tools

Specifying the page layout

Choosing a page background

Adding, duplicating, renaming, and deleting pages

Inserting page numbers

Using the rulers

Calibrating the rulers

Setting up the document grid

Setting up the baseline grid

Setting up guidelines

Modifying guidelines

Setting the drawing scale

Working with tables

Adding tables to drawings

Selecting, moving, and navigating table components

Inserting and deleting table rows and columns

Resizing table cells, rows, and columns

Formatting tables and cells

Working with text in tables

Converting tables to text

Merging and splitting tables and cells

Manipulating tables as objects

Adding images, graphics, and backgrounds to tables

Importing tables in a drawing

Bitmaps

Working with bitmaps

Converting vector graphics to bitmaps

Importing bitmaps

Cropping bitmaps

Changing the dimensions and resolution of bitmaps

Straightening bitmaps

Correcting perspective distortions

Using Digimarc watermarks to identify bitmaps

Removing dust and scratch marks from bitmaps

Working with colors in bitmaps

Using the Image Adjustment Lab

Adjusting color and tone

Using the Tone Curve filter

Transforming color and tone

Editing bitmaps with Corel PHOTO-PAINT

Applying special effects in bitmaps

Special effects categories

3-D special effects

Art strokes special effects

Blur special effects

Camera special effects

Color transform special effects

Contour special effects

Creative special effects

Custom special effects

Distort special effects

Noise special effects

Sharpen special effects

Texture special effects

Working with bitmap color modes

Changing the color mode of bitmaps

Changing bitmaps to black-and-white images

Changing bitmaps to duotones

Changing bitmaps to the paletted color mode

Tracing bitmaps and editing traced results

Tracing bitmaps

PowerTRACE controls

Previewing traced results

Fine-tuning traced results

Adjusting colors in traced results

Setting default tracing options

Tips for tracing bitmaps and editing traced results

Working with RAW camera files

Using RAW camera files

Bringing RAW camera files into CorelDRAW

Adjusting the color and tone of RAW camera files

Sharpening and reducing noise in RAW camera files

Previewing RAW camera files and obtaining image information

Printing

Printing basics

Printing your work

Laying out print jobs

Previewing print jobs

Applying print styles

Fine-tuning print jobs

Printing colors accurately

Printing to a PostScript printer

Using print merge

Viewing preflight summaries

Preparing files for print service providers

Preparing a print job for a print service provider

Working with imposition layouts

Printing printers’ marks

Maintaining OPI links

Printing color separations

Working with color trapping and overprinting

Specifying In-RIP trapping settings

Printing to film

Preparing banners for printing

Working with a print service provider

Web graphics

Creating objects for the web

Exporting bitmaps for the web

Exporting and uploading bitmaps to WordPress

Saving and applying web presets

Exporting objects with transparent colors and backgrounds

Creating web-compatible text

Creating rollovers

Adding bookmarks and hyperlinks to documents

Adding hotspots and alternate text to objects

File formats

Importing and exporting files

Importing files

Exporting files

Exporting to PDF

Exporting documents as PDF files

Including hyperlinks, bookmarks, and thumbnails in PDF files

Reducing the size of PDF files

Working with text and fonts in PDF files

Specifying an encoding format for PDF files

Specifying a viewing option for EPS files

Specifying color management options for exporting PDF files

Setting security options for PDF files

Optimizing PDF files

Viewing preflight summaries for PDF files

Preparing PDF files for a print provider

Working with office productivity applications

Importing files from office productivity applications

Exporting files to office productivity applications

Adding objects to documents

Supported file formats

Adobe Illustrator (AI)

Adobe Type 1 Font (PFB)

Windows Bitmap (BMP)

OS/2 Bitmap (BMP)

Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM)

CorelDRAW (CDR)

Corel Presentation Exchange (CMX)

Corel PHOTO-PAINT (CPT)

Corel Symbol Library (CSL)

Cursor Resource (CUR)

Microsoft Word (DOC, DOCX, or RTF)

Microsoft Publisher (PUB)

Corel DESIGNER (DES, DSF, DS4, or DRW)

AutoCAD Drawing Database (DWG) and AutoCAD Drawing Interchange Format (DXF)

Encapsulated PostScript (EPS)

PostScript (PS or PRN)

GIF

JPEG (JPG)

JPEG 2000 (JP2)

Kodak Photo CD Image (PCD)

PICT (PCT)

PaintBrush (PCX)

Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF)

HPGL Plotter File (PLT)

Portable Network Graphics (PNG)

Adobe Photoshop (PSD)

Corel Painter (RIF)

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)

Adobe Flash (SWF)

TARGA (TGA)

TIFF

Corel Paint Shop Pro (PSP)

TrueType Font (TTF)

Visio (VSD)

WordPerfect Document (WPD)

WordPerfect Graphic (WPG)

RAW camera file formats

Wavelet Compressed Bitmap (WI)

Windows Metafile Format (WMF)

Additional file formats

Recommended formats for importing graphics

Recommended formats for exporting graphics

General notes on importing text files

Customizing and automating

Setting basic preferences

Disabling warning messages

Viewing system information

Customizing CorelDRAW

Saving and restoring defaults

Creating workspaces

Importing and exporting workspaces

Customizing workspace appearance

Customizing keyboard shortcuts

Customizing menus

Customizing toolbars

Customizing the toolbox

Customizing the property bar

Customizing the status bar

Customizing filters

Customizing file associations

Using macros to automate tasks

Working with macros

Reference

CorelDRAW for Adobe Illustrator users

Comparing terminology

Comparing tools

Using the Adobe Illustrator workspace

Glossary