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Export For Office cannot export multiple pages; it only works with the page you have
active at the time you opened the dialog. If you have a multi-page document that you want to
export, you’ll need to do this page by page. And unlike with the Export dialog, there is no
Selected Only check box; however, you can, indeed, export a selected object only. In the
Export For Office process, if you have any object(s) selected before you open the dialog,
only the objects you had selected appear in the preview window. On the other hand, if you
have nothing selected, everything you have on the page and partially on the page is what is
saved by the Export For Office process.
The gray checkerboard background to the preview area corresponds to areas of
transparency. Vector objects and text have no background, but any bitmaps you created from
vector objects will have a white background around them unless you explicitly checked the
Transparent Background check box in the Convert To Bitmap dialog when converting the
object for export. Bitmaps you imported into your original document that contained
transparent backgrounds will retain the transparent areas.
The drop-down lists at the top of the dialog are where you make some preparations for
the intended use of the exported graphic. To make good choices here, you really need to
know what your customer is likely to do with the file. First, you need to know which Office
suite they will be using the graphics file with: Corel’s or Microsoft’s. The answer to this
question determines which file format you choose in the Export To drop-down list. Also, ask
yourself (and your coworker receiving the file): Will you edit this file using the Office
suite’s tools, or will you just place it in their document as finished work? You also should
know what the final destination for their document will be: an onscreen presentation or on
the Web, printing to a low-resolution desktop printer or to a professional, commercial
printer.
If your customer is using Corel WordPerfect Office, choose that in the Export To drop-
down list, and all other options gray out. Your exported file will be saved as a WordPerfect
Graphics (WPG) file. The Estimated File Size of the saved WPG file appears at the bottom
of the dialog. Click OK and the now-familiar Save As dialog appears with Corel WordPerfect
Graphic already selected in the Save As Type drop-down. Navigate to where you want to
save your file, give it a name in the File Name field, click Save, and you are done.
If your customer uses Microsoft Office, choose that in the Export To drop-down. Next,

choose either Compatibility or Editing in the Graphic Should Be Best Suited For drop-down.
If you choose Compatibility, your exported file will be saved as a bitmap in the PNG file
format. As a bitmap your graphic will look just like you see it onscreen, but it can no longer
be edited using vector tools.
If you choose Editing, the file will be saved in the Extended Metafile Format (EMF),
which can retain some (but not all) vector information and some CorelDRAW effects. EMF
files can be easily edited in Microsoft Office, but fancy effects such as Distort may not travel
well or at all, so you will want to open the document yourself in Microsoft Office to see how
it looks. As a measure to ensure that the export looks like the original does in CorelDRAW,
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you can make a copy of the graphic, particularly if it has dynamic effects such as envelopes
or extrude. Then use Arrange | Break Apart and similar commands on the Arrange menu to
“genericize” the vector information, adding to the saved file size, but also adding to your
chances that an elegant graphic displays in a Word document as you intend it to.
If you choose Compatibility, which will save your work as a bitmap, the Optimized For
drop-down needs your attention. If you choose Editing, the Optimized For drop-down will
be grayed out. Here your choices are Presentation, which basically means it will be displayed
on a monitor and not printed, or one of the two print options on the list—Desktop Printing
or Commercial Printing. The PNG format bitmap file saved with the Presentation setting
saves at 96 dpi; the Desktop Printing setting saves at 150 dpi; and Commercial Printing
saves at 300 dpi.
As you make your choices, you will notice that the Estimated File Size changes. As
when you selected WordPerfect Office as your export option, click OK to open the Save As
dialog where the file type is already selected in the Save As Type drop-down. Navigate to
where you want to save your file, give it a name in the File Name field, click Save, deliver
the goods, and ask for a (large) check!
Saving, importing, and exporting might not be as exciting as the headlines on supermarket
tabloids, but they’re essential skills that are a prerequisite to reaping your rewards as a
CorelDRAW designer. Compare it to the ennui of learning how to use a knife and fork—
they’re essential to being able to savor the meal that comes after learning Silverware 101!

If you’ve read Chapter 2, you now know where a lot of the Good Stuff is in CorelDRAW’s
interface, and how to save anything you’ve created using the Good Stuff. Now it’s time to get a
handle on navigating this interface in Chapter 4. You know how to bring stuff in and copy stuff
out of CorelDRAW; it’d be nice if you first had the best view of these objects, on layers and on
multiple pages you’re soon going to be cranking out.
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rtists who have embraced digital media enjoy not only new tools, but also new ways
to look at our artwork. Because your CorelDRAW designs can be extremely large,
intricate, and composed on several different layers, now’s the time to discover the ways you
can look at your work. This chapter covers the different ways you can view dimensions of
the drawing page and the level of detail displayed on your screen as you preview and work.
You’ll work smarter and more efficiently—regardless of your skill level—when you understand
how wide, tall, and deep your drawings can be, and how to view the details you need at any
given second. Learning the ins and outs of CorelDRAW document navigation might just be
your ticket to better artwork in less time!
Download and extract all the files from the Chapter04.zip archive to follow the
tutorials in this chapter.
Setting View Mode
Because the type of artwork you usually design in CorelDRAW is vector artwork, the
objects you create need to be written to screen from moment to moment: the process is
called rasterizing. With today’s video cards and computer processors, the response time
between changing an element in a file and seeing the change can usually be measured in a
fraction of a second. CorelDRAW has always supported different levels of detail with which

you view your CorelDRAW work. They’re accessed through the View menu, and these view
modes can help you find an object and draw an object when your design becomes intricate
and the page gets cluttered.
View modes are used to specify how your drawing appears onscreen. Modes offer
feedback as to how a design will print or export, and lower-quality view modes can help you
locate an object hidden by other objects. You switch between view modes by using the View
menu and through keyboard shortcuts. The View menu itself indicates the current view using
a button indicator to the left of each menu item.
You have the option of choosing from one of six display qualities: Simple Wireframe,
Wireframe, Draft, Normal, Enhanced, and Pixels. The default mode is Enhanced, and this is the
best proofing quality for working and displaying your work to others. Additionally, you can
check or uncheck Simulate Overprints and Rasterize Complex Effects when viewing in
Enhanced mode. The following section explains how these display modes render to screen paths
and objects that have different fills and effects. Here you can see the list of View commands:
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Viewing quality modes
Button indicator
Wireframe and Simple Wireframe
The views listed make a top-to-bottom progression from low to high detail. At the top, Simple
Wireframe and Wireframe provide the least detail and refresh onscreen almost immediately
when you make edits or change the zoom level of your document. In Simple Wireframe
viewing mode, all you see is the silhouette of vector objects: a thin black outline with no fill.
This is a very useful view mode for locating a shape on the page when you don’t have the time
to perform a search in CorelDRAW (covered in Chapter 14). Simple Wireframe mode provides
no view of object fills, but it does reveal the structure of effects objects such as extrudes and
blends. Figure 4-1 is a visual comparison of Simple Wireframe, Wireframe, Pixels view, and
the default viewing mode in CorelDRAW, Enhanced. Clearly, you’re not going to apply fills to
objects in Wireframe mode while you work; however, these different modes indeed provide
user information about objects you don’t usually see, and you can edit paths, copy objects, and

perform most other necessary design tasks in any of these view modes.
Getting a Draft View
Draft view is the middle-ground of view quality between Wireframe and Enhanced modes.
In Draft viewing mode, the objects in your drawing are rendered with color fills, but only
Uniform fills are displayed with any accuracy. Outline properties such as dashed lines, width,
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FIGURE 4-1 View modes can help you see the structure of complex objects and provide you
with “unseen” clues where editing might be desired.
Wireframe
Simple Wireframe
Pixels
Enhanced (default view)
and color are displayed. The two greatest visual differences between Draft and Enhanced
views are that there is no anti-aliasing in Draft mode (so object edges look harsh and jaggy),
and bitmaps and Fountain fills do not display as you’d expect them to. Figure 4-2 shows a
Fountain fill, a Bitmap fill, and a PostScript fill viewed in (the default) Enhanced view at the
top and then at bottom in Draft mode. There is a subtle visual indication that you can use to tell
the difference between a Bitmap fill and a Fountain fill in this mode, but it’s hardly worth the
challenge. Draft mode is best used to evaluate basic color schemes in a vector drawing and for
quickly navigating incredibly dense and complex illustrations such as CAD architecture
designs and a single page containing 45,000 Extrude effect objects.
Using Normal View
Normal view displays all object properties—Bitmap fills, Fountain fills, and PostScript fills—
correctly, unlike Draft and Wireframe views. The only difference between Enhanced and
Normal view modes is that Normal mode does not anti-alias the edges of objects. Anti-aliasing
is part of the rasterization process because visual data is written to the screen that creates
a smooth transition, whereas image areas have very different colors and brightness. This is
usually done by adding pixels to the color edge of an object whose color is a blend between the
neighboring, contrasting areas. The effect of anti-aliasing is particularly evident along edges of

objects that travel diagonally across the page, and in curved areas such as circles and ellipses.
Without anti-aliasing, the Normal view might remind you of Microsoft Paint back in 1991,
when the best monitor you could buy was a VGA and you ran Windows 3.x.
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FIGURE 4-2 Draft view provides Uniform color fill views and outline colors, but not more
elaborate object fills.
Fountain fill
Bitmap fill
PostScript fill
Enhanced view
Draft view
Normal view mode will appeal to users whose video card doesn’t have a lot of RAM,
and to artists who create thousands of objects on a page. Screen refreshes are quicker, and if
you don’t mind the stair-steppy edges of aliased object edges, you can pick up some speed
using Normal mode.
Bitmaps—whether they’re imported photos or bitmap fills you define using the
Interactive fill tool—do not change their screen appearance if you switch from
Normal to Enhanced view mode. Bitmaps do not update or refresh in CorelDRAW
because the pixel color definitions are set within the image or fill.
Using Enhanced View
When you use Enhanced view, all vector objects (text is a vector object, too) are anti-aliased
around the edges. It’s your best view of your work and is the default setting in CorelDRAW.
Previewing with Pixels View
New to version X5 is a view option that displays both vector and bitmap data onscreen as though
the objects all were constructed from pixels. Pixels view quality depends on the resolution of
your document, another new X5 feature. When you open a new document, you’re presented with
the Create A New Document screen; there, you set the Rendering Resolution—the factory
default setting is 300 dpi (dots, or pixels, per inch). As an example, suppose you’re creating
a web graphic. Because CorelDRAW artwork is vector- and resolution-independent in nature,
you can’t truly preview what a bitmap version of your vector design will look like on the Web,

because every zoom level you choose displays the vector graphic smoothly using Enhanced view.
The previewing solution is simple—before you draw, set up your document to 96 dpi in the
Create A New Document box, and then use Pixels view mode to preview your artwork before
delivering it and getting paid handsomely for it.
The higher the resolution of the document, the smoother that Pixels view displays your
artwork.
To change the resolution of a document, double-click the gray page border to bring
up the Page Size tab in Options. Change the Rendering Resolution to suit your
current need, and go to town.
Simulate Overprints
Simulate Overprints is a print production preview mode. Overprinting is part of the standard
commercial printing process used to simulate how colors actually will print to a physical
page and also is used to check for any gaps between printed objects due to any printing
registration problems. If you have no need for commercial printing, Simulate Overprints will
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be a seldom-used view. However, if you use CorelDRAW for physical commercial output,
bear in mind two things:
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You need to check in with Window | Dockers | Color Proof Settings and to ensure
that your intended output device is chosen from the Simulate Environment list
(shown next). If you don’t find the printing press of your choice, contact the
commercial printer and request the drivers or ICM profile they use. By default,
SWOP is the color space when proofing, and chances are good that the simulation
of a CMYK color space will display colors as accurately as any monitor can.
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“Simulation” means exactly that. It is physically impossible to proof physical
pigments rendered to a physical surface with total accuracy by using a monitor that
displays virtual artwork. However, CorelDRAW’s color simulation of real-world
color output is excellent, and “close” is far better than “none” when it comes to

proofing printed material on your screen.
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To quickly switch between your current view mode and the last-used view mode,
press
SHIFT+F9.
Zooming and Panning Pages
There are at least two meanings in CorelDRAW for the term view, and the previous sections
have covered only one of them: view quality, the level of detail with which you see your
work. Zooming—increasing and decreasing the resolution of a page—and panning (sliding
your view without zooming, similar to using the scroll bars on the edge of a document
window) are the topics of the sections to follow. In the real world, evaluating the progress of
a design from different perspectives is a chore when compared to CorelDRAW’s workspace:
you back into a ladder in your artist’s loft, you can’t find your favorite magnifying glass, and
you wear the carpet thin moving toward and away from your canvas! One way to work faster
(and usually smarter) is through a digital design program such as CorelDRAW. Another
good way is to master all the features for zooming your view, covered next.
Using the Zoom Tool and Property Bar
The Zoom tool is in the fourth group of tools from the top on the toolbox and is marked by
its magnifying glass icon. If you see a hand icon and not the magnifying glass, click-hold on
the icon to reveal the group. The tool is used to zoom in and zoom out of a page.
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When you’ve chosen the Zoom tool, the property bar displays buttons plus a drop-down
list that provides just about every common degree of magnification you could ask for, as
shown in Figure 4-3. You therefore have at least two methods for page navigation when you
select the Zoom tool: clicking with the tool in the document workspace, and choosing
degrees of magnification from the property bar (not including click or click-drag actions
with the cursor).
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