Lesson 1:

I n t r o d u c t i o n to
C o r e l D R AW X 5

Lesson 2:
C o r e l D R AW To o l b o x

UNIT I – INTRODUCTION Lesson 3: Creating

N e w D r aw i n g

TO CorelDRAW X5 Lesson 4: Grids,

Ru l e r s a n d
Guidelines

Lesson 5: Zooming
and Panning

Lesson 6:
Previewing a
D r aw i n g
 LESSON 1 : INTRODUCTION TO
CORELDRAW X5
 What is CorelDRAW?
 CorelDRAW is a vector-based drawing program that makes it easy to
create professional artwork from simple logos to intricate technical
illustrations. The enhanced text handling capabilities and writing
tools of CorelDRAW allow you to create text-intensive projects such as
brochures and reports with great ease than ever before.
 Use of CorelDRAW
 Poster art; high contrast graphic
 Simple architectural plans
 Line drawings
 Product designs
 Business graphics
 Graphic illustrations
 Traditional logos with sharp and crisp edge
 HISTORY OF CORELDRAW

 In 1987, Corel hired software engineers Michel Bouillon and

Pat Beirne to develop a vector-based illustration program to
bundle with their desktop publishing systems. That program,
CorelDraw, was initially released in 1989. CorelDraw 1 .x and
2.x runs under Windows 2.x and 3.0. CorelDraw 3.0 came into
its own with Microsoft's release of Windows 3.1 .
 CDR file format is a proprietary file format developed by Corel
Corporation and primarily used for vector graphic drawings.
There is no publicly available CDR file format specification .
 The latest version of CorelDRAW currently is CorelDRAW X5.
EXPLORING THE AREA OF CORELDRAW
 PARTS OF THE CORELDRAW INTERFACE

 When you create a new drawing in CorelDRAW, the large white

portion of the screen is the Drawing Window. The rectangle in
the center with the drop shadow represents the Drawing Page.
Usually, only the part of your drawing that falls within the
Drawing Page is printed.
 You can think of the remaining space in the Drawing Window
as your workspace in which you can keep your tools and
pieces of your illustration handy.
 PARTS OF THE CORELDRAW INTERFACE

 The application commands available through the Menu Bars

can also be accessed through toolbars and flyouts. The
Property Bars and Docker window allow you quick access to
frequently used functions. Property Bars, is accessible as you
work on your document, enable you to access commands that
are relevant to the active tool or the task you're currently
performing. The Docker window is a new feature in
CorelDRAW that can be docked to the side of the application
window.
 PARTS OF THE CORELDRAW INTERFACE

1. Title bar - displays the title of the open document.

2. Toolbox - a floating bar with tools for creating, filling, and modifying
objects in the drawing.

3. Drawing window - The area outside the drawing page bordered by the
scroll bar s and application control s.

4. Drawing page - The rectangular area inside the drawing window. It is the
printable area of your work area.

5. Ruler s - Used to determine the size and position of objects in a drawing.

6. Standard toolbar - A detachable bar that contains shor tcuts to menu and
other commands, such as opening, saving and printing.

7. Proper ty bar - A detachable bar with commands that relate to the active
tool or object.
 PARTS OF THE CORELDRAW INTERFACE

8. Docker - A window containing available commands and settings relevant

to a specific tool or task .

9. Color palette - A dockable bar that contains color swatches.

10. Document palette - A palette specific to the current open document.

11. Navigator - A button at the lower -right corner that opens a smaller
display to help you move around a drawing.

12. Document navigator - The area at the bottom lef t of the application
window that contains control s for moving between pages and adding
pages.

13. Status bar - Contains information about object proper ties such as type,
size, color, fill and resolution. The status bar also shows the current
mouse position.
LESSON 2 : CORELDRAW TOOLBOX

PICK TOOL RECTANGLE TOOL FLYOUT

SHAPE EDIT TOOL FLYOUT ELLIPSE TOOL FLYOUT

CROP TOOL FLYOUT OBJECT TOOL FLYOUT

HAND/ZOOM TOOL FLYOUT BASIC SHAPES TOOL FLYOUT

TEXT TOOL
FREE HAND TOOL FLYOUT

SMART TOOL FLYOUT TABLE TOOL

LESSON 2 : CORELDRAW TOOLBOX

DIMENSION TOOL FLYOUT

STRAIGHT LINE CONNECTOR T TOOL FLYOUT

INTERACTIVE TOOLS FLYOUT

EYEDROPPER TOOL FLYOUT Explore those flyout tools and it

will show you the hidden tools
that can help you with your
OUTLNE TOOL FLYOUT
drawing.

FILL TOOL FLYOUT TIP: Do you want to know each

tool’s name and function. Just
INTERACTIVE FILL TOOL FLYOUT simply mouse over with each tool
and a yellow box will tell.
 LESSON 2 : CORELDRAW TOOLBOX

1. The Pick tool lets you select and size, skew and rotate objects
2. The Shape edit flyout lets you access the Shape, Smudge brush,
Roughen brush and Free transform tools.
3. The Crop tool flyout lets you access the Crop, Knife, Eraser and
Vir tual seament delete tools.
4. The Zoom/Hand flyout lets you access the Zoom and Hand tools
5. The Freehand flyout lets you access the Freehand, 2 -Point line,
Bezier, Ar tistic media, Pen, B -spline, Polyline and the 3 -Point cur ve.
6. The Smar t tools flyout lets you access the Smar t fill and Smar t
drawing tools.
7. The Rectangle flyout lets you access the Rectangle and 3 -Point
Rectangle tools.
8. The Ellipse flyout lets you access the Ellipse and 3-Point Ellipse tools.
9. The Object flyout lets you access the Polygon, Star t, Complex Star,
Graph paper, and Spiral tools.
10. The Basic Shapes flyout lets you access the Basic shapes, Arrow
shapes, Flowchar t shapes, Banner shapes and Callout shapes tools.
 LESSON 2 : CORELDRAW TOOLBOX

11. The Text tool lets you type words directly on the screen as ar tistic or
paragraph text.
12. The Table tool lets you draw and edit tables.
13. The Dimension tool lets you draw Parallel, Ver tical, Horizontal
Angular, Segment and 3 -Point callouts.
14. Straight Line Connector tool lets you access the Straight Line, Right
Angle, Right Angle Rounded and Edit Anchor tool.
15. The Interactive tools flyout lets you access the Interactive blend,
Interactive Contour, Interactive distor tion, Interactive drop shadow,
Interactive envelope, Interactive extrude, and Interactive
transparency tools.
16. The Eyedropper flyout lets you access the Color eyedropper and the
Attributes eyedropper tools.
17. The Fill flyout lets you access the Fill color, Fountain fill, Pattern fill,
Texture fill and PostScript fill dialog boxes, indicate no fill and the
Color Docker.
18. The Interactive Fill flyout lets you access Interactive fill and
Interactive mesh fill tools.
 LESSON 3 : CREATING NEW DRAWING

 To create a new drawing, do one of the following:

 Click the New Graphic icon on the Welcome to CorelDRAW screen.

 Click File, New.
 Click the New button.
 Press CTRL + N.

1. Select desired a layout size, or custom size such as height and width.
2. Select unit desired and color mode.
3. Click OK.
 LESSON 3 : CREATING NEW DRAWING

 The Create New Document Window

 LESSON 3 : CREATING NEW DRAWING

 To Open a Drawing do one of the following:

 Click File, Open.
 Click the Open button.
1. From the Look In list box choose the drive where the file is stored.
2. Double-click the folder where the file is stored.
3. Double-click the filename.
 To Open a Recently Opened Drawing:
1. Click File.
2. A list of the last four opened files appears at the bottom of the menu.
3. Click the file you want to open.
 LESSON 3 : CREATING NEW DRAWING

 To Save a New Drawing:

1. Click File, Save or Save As.
2. Choose a drive and folder where you want to save your drawing
from the Save In list box.
3. Type a name in the File Name box.
4. Click Save.
 To Save a Drawing that has been saved before:
1. Click File, Save.
2. Click the Save button on the menu bar.
 SETTING UP THE PAGE

 Preset Page Size

 By default CorelDRAW X5 has A4 as its page size, but you can change
it to other preset page size (e.g. Letter).
 Page Orientation
 Portrait – the default page orientation. The vertical dimension is
greater than horizontal dimension.
 Landscape – the horizontal dimension is greater than the vertical
dimension.
 Layout Style
 LESSON 4 : GRIDS, RULERS AND
GUIDELINES
 GRID is like a graph paper. It is an excellent visual reference
for scaling and aligning objects vertically and horizontally.
 RULERS in CorelDRAW look like physical ruler with major
spacing (in inches) and minor spacing (1/4, 3/4).
 GUIDELINES appear as vertical and horizontal dashed lines
created by dragging from the rulers.

CorelDRAW interface with rulers,

grids and guidelines
 USING RULERS

 To Reposition the Rulers

 Do one of the following:
1. Hold down SHIFT, and drag the ruler to a new position.
2. Hold down SHIFT, and drag the ruler intersection point to move both
rulers simultaneously.

 To Return a Ruler to its Previous Position

 Hold down SHIFT, and double-click the ruler.
 USING GRIDS

 To Display Grids:
 Click View from Menu Bar.
 Click Grid.

 To Set Grid Parameters:

To set the distance between grid dots
1. Click Tools, Options.
2. In the list of categories, click Document, Grid or Guidelines.
3. Click one of the following buttons:
4. Frequency, to set the grid spacing as a number of dots per inch
5. Spacing, to specify the distance you want between each grid dot
6. Type values in the Horizontal and Vertical boxes.
 You can also set your grid as lines or dots in Options window.
 USING GUIDELINES

 To add a Horizontal or Vertical guideline using the mouse

1. Click the Pick tool.
2. Click the Horizontal or Vertical ruler.
3. Drag the guideline to the Drawing Window.
4. To position a guideline using the mouse
5. Select the guideline with the Pick tool.
6. Drag the guideline to a new position.
 To select guideline, just click on it using Pick Tool. A selected
guideline is in red color, while it is blue if not selected.
 Just hit DELETE key on your keyboard to delete a selected
guideline.
 LESSON 5 : ZOOMING AND PANNING

 ZOOMING is increasing or decreasing the magnification level

of a drawing page.
 PANNING is sliding the view just like using the scrollbars at
the bottom of the document.

Zoom Tool – a tool used to magnify

the drawing page.
Pan Tool – a tool used to slide the
view and move around a magnified
object or page.
ZOOM TOOL OPTIONS
 ZOOM TOOL OPTIONS

Zoom to Page
Zoom Levels Height
Zoom In

Zoom to Page Width

Zoom Out Zoom to Page
Zoom to Selected Zoom to All Objects
 PREVIEWING A DRAWING

 To Set the Full-Screen Preview View Quality

1. Click Tools, Options.
2. In the list of categories, click Workspace, Display.
3. Enable one of the following:
 Use Normal View button, to specify the Normal view quality
 Use Enhanced View button, to specify the Enhanced view quality
 Use Enhanced View button and the Show PostScript Fills In
Enhanced View check box, to display PostScript Fills
DIFFERENT KINDS OF VIEWS

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.

Wireframe — displays a drawing in simple

wireframe mode plus intermediate blend
shapes

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.
DIFFERENT KINDS OF VIEWS

Wireframe — displays a drawing in simple

wireframe mode plus intermediate blend
shapes

Normal — displays a drawing without

PostScript fills or high-resolution bitmaps.
This mode refreshes and opens slightly faster
than the Enhanced mode.
Enhanced — displays a drawing with
PostScript fills, high-resolution bitmaps, and
anti-aliased vector graphics.
Pixels — displays a pixel-based rendition of
the drawing which allows you to zoom in on
an area of an object, 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.
 WAYS TO FULL-SCREEN PREVIEW

 To View a Full -Screen Preview of the Current Page

 Click View, Full-Screen Preview.

 To View a Full -Screen Preview of Selected Objects only

1. Select the objects you want to preview.

2. Click View, and enable the Preview Selected Only command.

 The command is enabled when it has a check mark beside it.

 Click View, Full-Screen Preview.

 To Return to the Drawing Window from any Full -Screen Preview

 Right-click or press any key.