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As you work, CorelDRAW lets you display a drawing in any of the following modes:
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Simple wireframe — displays an outline of the drawing by hiding fills, extrusions,
contours, drop shadows, and intermediate blend shapes; also displays the bitmaps
in monochrome. This mode lets you quickly preview basic elements in a drawing.
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Wireframe — displays a drawing in simple wireframe mode plus intermediate
blend shapes
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Draft — displays fills and bitmaps with a low resolution. This mode eliminates
some detail to allow you to focus on the color balances in a drawing.
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Normal — displays a drawing without PostScript fills or high-resolution bitmaps.
This mode refreshes and opens slightly faster than the Enhanced mode.
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Enhanced — displays a drawing with PostScript fills, high-resolution bitmaps, and
anti-aliased vector graphics.
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Pixels — displays a pixel-based rendition of the drawing, which allows you to
zoom in on an area of an object, and then position and size the object more
precisely. This view also lets you see what the drawing will look like when it is
exported to a bitmap file format.
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Simulate overprints — simulates the color of areas where overlapping objects
were set to overprint and displays PostScript fills, high-resolution bitmaps, and
anti-aliased vector graphics. For information about overprinting objects, see To
overprint selected objects.
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Rasterize complex effects — rasterizes the display of complex effects, such as
transparencies, bevels, and drop shadows when in Enhanced view. This option is
useful for previewing how the complex effects will be printed. To ensure the
successful printing of complex effects, most printers require complex effects to be
rasterized.
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The viewing mode you choose affects the amount of time it takes for a drawing to open or be displayed on the monitor. For example, a drawing displayed in Simple Wireframe view takes less time to refresh or open than does a drawing displayed in Simulate Overprints view.
Simple wireframe viewing mode (left); Enhanced viewing mode (center), and Simulate overprints viewing mode (right). The fill for the gray diamond shape and the cup’s shadow are set to overprint.
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Click View, and click one of the following modes:
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Simple wireframe
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Wireframe
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Draft
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Normal
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Enhanced
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Pixels
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Simulate overprints
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Rasterize complex effects
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If you are overprinting, it is important to preview the objects in the Simulate
overprints mode before printing. The type of objects you are overprinting and
the type of colors you are mixing determine how overprinted colors are
combined. For more information about overprinting, see Working with color
trapping and overprinting.
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You can set the default viewing mode by clicking Tools  Options, clicking
General in the Document list of categories, and choosing an option from the
View mode list box.
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You can quickly switch between the selected viewing mode and the previous
viewing mode by pressing Shift + F9.
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