CorelDRAW Help : Printing : Preparing files for print service providers : Preparing banners for printing
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Preparing banners for printing

You can add borders and grommet markers to prepare banners for printing. Grommets are rings or edge strips inserted into holes through thin material such as textile fabric or composite of carbon fiber. Strings or ropes can be inserted through the grommets to stretch a banner properly.

You can create a banner from the active page or from selected objects on the page.

Borders can be used in two ways. You can add a border to a design that has important graphic or text elements around the edges to prevent cutoffs in the final banner. Alternatively, you can add a border that can be folded before placing the grommets to make the banner edges sturdier.

CorelDRAW lets you add borders that have the page background color or a solid color of your choice. You can also stretch or mirror the document edges to add a border. You can specify the border size, which is the height of the area added to the top and bottom of the document and the width of the area placed to the right and left of the document.

You can specify the size and number of the grommet markers, and you can place them within the boundaries of the original page or in the border areas. In addition, you can specify the margin — the distance from the grommet edge to the page edge. Grommet markers can be placed in the corners or along the top, bottom, left and right edges of the design. With this placement method, you can specify the number of grommet markers to be added vertically and horizontally. You can also add grommet markers by specifying the approximate space between them.

CorelDRAW saves your changes to a new document, which can be sent for printing, leaving the original document unchanged.

The Border and Grommet dialog box

To prepare a banner design for printing Back to Top

 

To
Do the following
Add a border
In the Border area, enable the Add border check box.
Add borders and grommet markers to a document based on the active page
In the Source area, enable the Page option.
Add borders and grommet markers to a document that includes only the selected object
In the Source area, enable the Selection option.
This option is unavailable if there are no selected objects on the page.
Choose a border type
In the Border area, choose an option from the Type list box:
Set the border size
In the Border area, type a value in the Size box.
Add grommets
Enable the Add grommets check box.
If you want CorelDRAW to take into account the border area when placing grommet markers, enable the Use border area check box. Disabling this option places grommet markers within the boundaries of the original page.
Set the grommet size
In the Grommet area, type a value in the Size box.
Set the distance from the grommet markers’ edge to the closest page edge
In the Grommet area, type a value in the Margin box.
Specify the number and placement of grommet markers
In the Placement and Distribution area, enable the Number of grommets option, and type values in the Vertical and Horizontal boxes.
Click any of the following buttons:
Add grommet markers by specifying the space between them
In the Placement and Distribution area, enable the Spacing option, and type values in the Vertical and Horizontal boxes.

Some features described in the Help are not included in this version of the product, and are available only in CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2018.

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