Multi-page PDF's from Photo-PAINT Frames

Here's an animation showing that it's possible.

If you need to have thumbnails of these frames on a page, you can output to a free PDF driver (or printer) and use Photo-PAINT's impositioning abilities found in the print engine.

Maybe it can work as a crude type of storyboarding method for some users...

One curiosity is that you must save as AVI for best quality for archiving (the CPT format doesn't support multiple frames).

Half circles relative to a rectangle

Perhaps these short animations will give you some insight into creating some common designs.

You can see that I use Snap to Objects and Dynamic Guides to get the circle to easily line up to the rectangle.

I have the various snapping icons on my menu bar, (I customize my workspace heavily). I like to see at a glance which are enabled.

Fun plug-in for Photo-PAINT

Check this free plugin out, I think you'll really enjoy it!

1. install it into Corel plugin folder
2. Run Photo-PAINT
3. Load a pic, or create simple lines like I did below. I started with a square document.
4. Run the plugin, found under Effects Menu (if you had installed it properly in step 1)
5. press random button over and over and cool patterns appear
6. PowerTrace the pattern in CorelDRAW later if you need vectors.

Finding Non-Embeddable Fonts

I'd stumbled across something interesting when testing the fontcat macro.

The macro was run, and all my installed fonts were in one CorelDRAW document as a font samples (I have 389 fonts installed at the moment.)

As I went to publish to PDF, I was presented list of fonts that didn't have embed rights into PDF's.

While I understand a font author's point of view to protect their work, I'm not sure how easy it is to extract a font from a PDF anyway...

If a designer is working on a 20 page text-heavy document and can't generate a PDF without converting to curves, the designer would prefer to know this in advance so that they can choose another font during the design process.

Selection Buddy Offers Complex Selection Capabilities

Select items throughout a page based on a selected item.

GDG Selection Buddy allows for challenging selection situations, and also allows up to 8 custom presets (Note: You don't need to have anything selected to use a preset. Example: 1 preset may search for red filled shapes that are smaller than 6 inches. Click the button, active current selection will be cleared and shapes fitting the profile will be selected.)

NOTE: For CorelDRAW X4 or Higher only.

Creating a Puzzle Globe Effect

This one is a more advanced task (Esp to created the initial puzzle pieces.)

Here's a brief summary of the steps I took:

1. Make all vector puzzle pieces
2. Put in letters
3. Put circle over top
4. Press ALT+F3 to launch lens docker
5. Set circle to be a fish eye lens
6. Freeze the lens group
7. Ungroup result
8. Find circle shape, apply radial fountain fill to it from white at center to black at edges
9. Set circle shape to 100% multiply merge mode using transparency tool in uniform mode

Creating line patterns from welding shapes

A user asked in the public forum:

"I need to set up box joints to vector cut. Is there a way to tell corel x5 that I want a line 1 inch down, then 1 inch to the left, then 1 inch down, then one inch to the right  then 1 inch down and so on?"

I offered the idea that he could weld rectangles together.. esp. if an outside line was needed as shown below to create a complete piece.

Note: I normally only press W to weld, I never take this long menu route (I set this up in my options.)