Comparing features

If you are moving from another technical graphics program, you will find many familiar features in Corel DESIGNER. However, some of these features have different names.

The following table lists features and standard industry terms used in other technical graphics programs that have different names in Corel DESIGNER.

Technical graphic term	Corel DESIGNER feature
Banner	Status bar
Bevel	Chamfer
Block select	Marquee select (definition: marquee select)
Block text	Paragraph text (see Adding paragraph text)
Bounding box	Selection box
Canvas	Drawing window
Clone	Duplicate
Color depth	Color mode
Construction lines	Guidelines
Dynamic snap	Snap to point (see Gravity snapping)
Edit image	Edit bitmap
Fillet	Rounded corner
Freeform text	Artistic text (see Adding artistic text)
Gradient fill	Fountain fill (see Applying fountain fills)
Image fill	Bitmap pattern fill (see Applying two-color pattern fills)
Line attributes	Line settings
Line style overall width	Pattern width
Line style width	Outline width
Magnetism	Gravity snapping
Magnify	Magnify lens
Masked object	PowerClip object
Object explorer	Object Manager
Object fill	2-color or full color pattern fill (see To apply a two-color pattern fill)
Hotspots	Object Data Manager
Page manager	Page sorter view
Palette window	Toolbox
Path text	Text fit to path (see Fitting text to a path)
Pivot point	Center of rotation
Prompt and report area	Status bar
Reflection	Flipping objects
Ribbon	Property bar
Rotation point	Center of rotation
Rubberband box	Marquee select (definition: marquee select)
Smash	Convert to curves
Snap points	Gravity snapping
Snap to rulers	Snap to grid (see Gravity snapping)
Solid color fill	Uniform fill (see Applying uniform fills)
Stretchable box	Marquee select (definition: marquee select)
Structure view	Object Manager (see To create a layer)
Target sheet	Active layer
Text container	Text frame (see Combining and linking paragraph text frames)

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