CorelDRAW lets you start a new drawing from a blank page, a template, or an existing drawing. A blank page gives you the freedom to specify every aspect of a drawing. A template provides you with a starting point and leaves the amount of customization up to you. The Create a New Document dialog box (File New or File New from Template) provides a central location for starting new drawings. On the Document Settings tab, you can start a blank drawing by specifying document settings or choosing a preset. On the Templates tab, you can start a drawing from a template.
For information about starting a drawing from a template, see To start a document from a template.
Notes for starting new drawings
When starting a new drawing from a blank page, CorelDRAW lets you specify page, document, and color management settings or choose a preset. Presets include predefined settings for page size and orientation, primary color mode, units of measurement, and resolution. For example, the LinkedIn Cover preset from the Social category uses pixels instead of inches, landscape orientation, RGB color and has the dimensions required for a LinkedIn cover image. CorelDRAW offers a wide selection of print, web, device-specific, and social media presets. You can browse and search presets. To find presets more easily, you can filter them by category and page type and sort them by name, date, and page size. If none of the presets are suitable for the drawing that you want to create, you can customize the settings and save them for future use.
Notes for opening existing drawings
Basing a new drawing on an existing drawing lets you reuse objects and page settings. CorelDRAW lets you open existing drawings saved to the CorelDRAW (CDR) format as well as drawings and projects saved to various file formats such as Corel DESIGNER (DSF or DES), Adobe Illustrator (AI), Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), and Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM). However, you may not be able to open certain files, depending on their file type and contents. In such cases, you can try importing the files as objects in an open drawing
If the drawing you are opening is from an earlier version of CorelDRAW and contains text in a language different from the language of your operating system, you can choose code page settings to ensure that text is properly converted according to the Unicode Standard. Code page settings help you correctly display text such as keywords, file names, and text entries outside the drawing window — for example, in the Objects inspector. To display text correctly in the drawing window, you must use encoding settings. For more information, see Display text correctly in any language.
If the drawing you are opening contains an embedded International Color Consortium (ICC) profile, the embedded color profile remains the document’s color profile.
You can search for drawings by different criteria, such as filename, title, subject, author, keyword, comment, text within the file, and other properties attached to the file. For more information about browsing and searching for content, see Find clipart and other local and network assets.
When you choose a color mode from the Primary color mode list box, it becomes the default color mode for the document. The default color mode affects how colors work together in effects such as blends and transparencies. It does not restrict the type of colors that you can apply to a drawing. For example, if you set the color mode to RGB, you can still apply colors from a CMYK color palette to the document.
The primary color mode also specifies the default color mode for exporting documents. For example, if you choose the RGB color mode and export a document as a JPEG, the color mode is automatically set to RGB.
The settings that are displayed in the Colors area of the Create a new document dialog box are based on the settings that are specified in the Default color management settings dialog box.
If you do not want to show the Create a new document dialog box and prefer to use the last used settings to create new documents, enable the Do not show this dialog again check box.
You can restore the Create a new document dialog box when starting drawings by clicking CorelDRAW menu Preferences CorelDRAW, clicking General, and enabling the Show New Document dialog box check box.
Choose one of the following options from the Sort document presets by page type, name, date, or size list box.
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You can delete a preset by choosing the preset name from the Preset list box, and clicking the Delete Preset button .
You can view file information, such as version number and compression ratio. For example, a compression ratio of 80 percent means that the file size was reduced by 80 percent after the file was saved. You can also see in what application and language the drawing was last saved, and you can view keywords and notes associated with a drawing.
To open a file you have recently worked on, click File Open Recent, and click the filename. To clear the list of recently opened files, click File Open Recent Clear Menu.
If you have multiple files open, you can navigate between them by clicking Window, and then clicking the name of the file that you want to display in the drawing window.
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