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Download Study material on easy to learn notes for students and more Assignments Computer Science in PDF only on Docsity! 4 Comdex Multimedia Course Kit es Color Palettes Color Palettes can be used for applying colors to objects or the outlines of objects or for highlighting the text. By default, this palette is on the right side in the Corel DRAW screen (Fig-CD-1.17). Color palettes consists of numerous colors which cannot be made visible all at once in a single strip. Therefore, you can either scroll through the colors using the up and down arrows on the Color palettes or click on the left arrow burton at the bottom of the palette to see more strips of colors (Fig-CD-1.18). Up arrow scroll button No Color button |megy Down arrow scroll button Left arrow scroll button —j*i4 salsa) ot Fig.CD-1.17 Fig.CD-1.18 Toolbox As the name suggests, the Toolbox is a collection of all the tools different tasks. You can select any of these tools by clicking on the a various tools present in the Toolbox are displayed al Lag, used for performing > PPropriate icon. The Ongwith their names in Fig.CD- Note that some of the tools in the Bis have small triangles at their lower- corners. Clicking on these triangles displays the fly-out menus which contains a nu of icons corresponding to various options related to a Particular tool. For exa Fig.CD-1.20 displays the fly-out menu of the Freehand Tool, right mber mple, Scanned wilh CamSeunner —.v/ ee a SS IIE Se es CorelDRAW Basics 175 3 =, Pick Tool oS ale ciFon - u f Shape Too! _~ ey - m Ae Te Zoom Tool » Freehand Tool —) f ( 1 Coloe Smart Drawing Tool = 1 ABA ~ gine a Rectangle Tool Ellipse Tool Ss | f — files be Graph Paper Tool _» ho. Sh columns A rau Ayko , Basic Shapes Sree, Int Text Fagi Artistic Media Come Bend & “ Interactive Btend Too! i ANS i Dimension Swan Fi Point Curv | Eyedropper Tool “ample Tea Pen Tool eae e Tool C i Outline Tool_- | lve - ay YOrtead pre =U) Fill Tool Lined is Interactive Fill Too! — Ep Calan sPe2ier Toot ee ae A Fig.cD-1.19 “Lal whe Colout Fig.CD-1.20 S £ a a : Q .e\ Status Bar ov \ ot Status bar is the bottom most bar of the CorelDRAW window. As the name suggests, the . F Status bar (Fig.CD-1.21) shows the status of your document. It displays the current mouse pointer position on the screen and information about the selected object. Besides, it displays values against Fill and Outline options. Fill refers to the color or picture used to fill a closed figure and Outline refers to the width of the boundary line of the selected object. t Fig.CD-1.21 Pointer position on the screen Saving a File So far, you have learned to create basic geometric shapes in CorelDRAW. You can save the work done by saving the document under an appropriate file name to enable us to ‘easily locate and work on it later on. The procedure for saving a document in CorelDRAW ems to that in PageMaker or any other program. For saving a document undertake the following steps: 1. Click on the File menu bar option. A list of options appears on the Screen (Fig CED. - Sie) e In this list, click on the Save option (Fig-CD-1.22), The Save Drawing i appears on the screen (Fig.CD-1.23). Type a name for the file, say First_file (Fig. CD-1.23) and click over ici be Scanned wilh CamSeunner 478 ComdexMultimediaCourseKit__ Views The term View’ refers to the way of viewing the documents. CorelDRAW — 2 types of view modes. For instance, sometimes you do not require the menu bah Fi Toolbars and other things on the screen; you just need to view the document wi these screen components. In that case, you can use the Full screen view. Let us now discuss the various view modes one by one. Normal View It displays the normal view of the drawing. For viewing the drawing in Nene oe undertake the following steps: 1. Chick on the View menu bar option. A list of options appears on the screen (Fig-CD- 1.30). 2. In this list, click on the Normal option (Fig.CD-1.30). The document appears 3s shown in Fig.CD-1.31). ‘Snap Th Gurcesnes __ | x7 Snap To Objects AR+Z Dynamic Guides Alt+Shift +0 #9 Grid and Ruler Setup. $2 Guidelines Setup... ns G2 Snap to Obpects Setup... 7{p Dynamic Gurdes Setup... Fig.CD-1.30 Fig.CD-1. Full Screen Preview Full Screen Preview provides us a full view of the work and hides all other components of the screen. It shows how the work appears when printed. For viewing the dace in full screen mode, undertake the following steps: 1. Click on the View menu bar option. A list of options appears on the screen (Fig.CD- 132. ; | ; 2. In this list, click on the Full-Screen Preview option (Fig.CD-1.32). The document appears full screen (Fig.CD-1.33). Jaa TTS +4 Scanned wilh CamSeunner CorelDRAW Basics 179 6B Preview Selected Only Page Sorter View Snap To Grid Ctri+Y ‘Snap To Guidelines (| snap To objects ak+z Dynamic Guides _Alt+-Shift+D 4 Grid and Ruler Setup... Ji? Snap to Objects Setup... 748 Dynamic Guides Setup... Fig.CD-1.32 Simple Wireframe View This view hides all the complex object properties and Misplays-the-bitmaps in black and _ white. This view is especially useful for-editing graphics, even the complex ones, uickly maaeel This is because CorelDRAW can display black ithines Thaet Ban =. ones. viewing the graphic in simple wireframe mode, undertake the steps given below: 1. Click on the View menu bar option. A list of options appears (Fig.CD-1.34). 2. In this list, click on the Simple Wireframe option (Fig.CD-1.34). The document apie in the Simple Wireframe view (Fig.CD-1.35). Scanned wilh CamSeunner 180 Comdex Multimedia Course Kit Bo Snap To Grid Criey Snap To Guidelines [o7) Snap To Objects AR+Z Dynamic Guides arshit+D | Grd and Ruler Setup... 22. Guidelines Setup... TG? snap to Objects Setup... 7B Dynamic Guides Setup... Fig CD-1.04 Fig.CD-1.35 3, To get back to the Normal View, click on the Normal option of the View menu bar option. Wireframe View . ] The Wireframe view also allows us to edit our drawings quickly. It-displays the drawing in a skele ~Hey itthismode, the number of black thin outlines are more than thar of the simple wireframe view. For displaying a document in the wireframe view, carry out the following steps: 1. Click on the View menu bar option. A list of options appears on the screen (Fig-CD-1.36). 2. In this list click on the Wireframe option (Fig.CD-1.36). The document appears in the wireframe view as shown in Fig.CD-1.37). a | Scanned wilh CamSeunner ee ae Fig.CD-1.42 Fig.CD-1.43 Zoom Sometimes you need to view a document in an enlarged for! and at other times you need a ‘smaller view ew of an i n image. This can be achieved by using zoom in and zoom out options of the Zoom Toolbar. If the Zoom Toolbar is not visible on the screen, then carty out the following steps: === 1. Click on the Tools menu bar option. A list of options appears on the screen (Fig.CD-1.44). 2. Next, click on the Options in this list (Fig-CD-1.44). The Options dialog box appears on the screen (Fig-CD-1.45). 3. Click on the Gustomization (+) sign on the left pane. A sub- menu appears (Fig-CD-1.45). 4. Then, click-on-the- Bars option (Fig.CD-1.45). P ligt pn \hte“tige! ane “ill appear. relIDRAW Basics 183 a < he ‘on the check bor Side.the Zoom option (Fig.CD- Big CO-144 / 45). A disabled Zoom Tod|bar appears within the Options dialog box. ‘3 ’ Finally click he OK burton (Fig.CD-1.45). The Options dialog box disappears i a = oolbar be me és ‘active (Fig.CD-1.46). ~ Fig.CD-1.46 Scanned wilh CamSeunner 184 Comdex Multimedia Course Kit The Zoom toolbar contains particular function. Given bel various Icons. am Zoom Levels HRN no, se a number of icons (Fig.CD-1.47). Each icon performs q low is a brief description of the functions performed by the {ption i Click on the drop-down arrow of this box to view your image indifferent zoom levels. When you click on this button, the page is enlarged. When you click on this button, the page is shrinked. Q . |ZoomIn Q Zoom Out Q Zoom to Selected _ When you click on this burton, only the selected object appears enlarged. Currently, no object is selected, therefore ir is disabled. Q Zoom to All Objects When you click on this burton, all the objects in the page are displayed zoomed. Qa Zoom to Page When you click on this option, the entire drawing page fits in the drawing window. @ Zoom to Page Width This option is used to view the page widthwise. 1 Zoom to Page Height This option is used to view the page heightwise. Scanned wilh CamSeunner