Drawing Page The portion of the Drawing Window that appears on the printed page.

This area is enclosed by a rectangle with a shadow effect. Although you can draw anywhere in the Drawing Window, only objects on the Drawing Page appear in your print jobs. CREATING AND OPENING DRAWINGS fter you start CorelDRAW, you have several choices. In addition to opening the CorelDRAW tutorial or touring the features that are new for CorelDRAW 9, you can: create a new drawing open an existing drawing, even if it was created with a previous version of CorelDRAW open the drawing you last worked on create a new drawing from a template For a type of document you create frequently, such as newsletters or greeting cards, it is a good idea to base your new drawing on a template. You can also scan images into CorelDRAW or acquire them from a digital camera. For more information about templates, see "Working with Styles and Templates." Creating a new drawing Creating a new drawing causes a blank Drawing Window to appear. This Drawing Window contains the styles in the default template, CORELDRW.CDT. If you're not planning to work with styles, you don't need to be concerned with the concept of styles and templates. o create a drawing Tip You can also create a new drawing by clicking the New button. Click File, New.

Creating a new drawing based on a template

If there is a document type you create frequently, such as an advertising flyer, a brochure, or a newsletter, using a template will make creating your drawing easier. In CorelDRAW, the Template wizard guides you through the steps involved in creating a document based on a template. You can use one of the templates supplied with CorelDRAW, or create one of your own. For easy access to custom templates saved in previous versions of CorelDRAW, add the templates to the Template wizard. For more information, see "Working with styles and templates." To create a drawing based on a template 1. 2. 3. Insert the CorelDRAW CD-ROM which contains the templates. Click File, New From Template. Enable one of the following buttons:

CorelDRAW Templatesto choose from a set of CorelDRAW templates PaperDirect Templates, text and paper samplesto choose from a selection of PaperDirect text and paper templates PaperDirect Templates, text onlyto choose from a selection of PaperDirect text templates 4. 5. 6. Click the Next button. Follow the instructions. Click the Finish button when you're satisfied with your choices.

To return to a previous option, click the Previous button. Tip To preview the contents of a template, enable the Open With Contents check box to display its thumbnail.

Opening a drawing
Opening a file in CorelDRAW is easy. CorelDRAW lets you view a thumbnail of the file you are about to open. This allows you to save time by ensuring you are opening the file you want. To open a drawing 1. 2. 3. 4. Click File, Open. From the Look In list box choose the drive where the file is stored. Double-click the folder where the file is stored. Double-click the filename.

To view a thumbnail of a file before opening it

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Enable the Preview check box in the Open dialog box.

When you open a drawing, the bottom right corner of the Open Drawing dialog box provides information about the version of the file and the compression ratio with which it was last saved (e.g., 60% means the file was 60% smaller after saving). If you try to open a drawing that is already open, and to which you have made changes, a message box appears asking if you want to revert to the saved version of the drawing. Click Yes to replace the open drawing with the saved version. Click No to keep the changes you made.

Saving and Closing Drawings

CorelDRAW lets you save your files in the way that best suits your file management needs. You can save only the selected objects of a drawing, make a copy of a drawing by saving it with a different name, or save a drawing in a format that is compatible with an earlier version of CorelDRAW. There are also several vector formats you can choose from. CorelDRAW offers advanced options that let you assign notes, keywords, and thumbnails so you can find your files more easily in future sessions. You can save fonts, textures, blends, and extrudes with the file, or save references to them. These references reduce the size of your file, making it faster to open and save. Before you close an active file, CorelDRAW asks whether or not you wish to save it. You can also close specific viewing windows, and close all open files or views using a single command.

Saving Files
You can specify a new filename for your drawing and a location in which to store it. If you want to save only parts of your drawing, select and save them under a filename that you specify. To save a new drawing 1. 2. 3. 4. Click File, Save As. From the Save In list box, choose the drive where you want to save the file. Double-click the folder in which you want to save the file. Type the filename in the File Name box and click Save.

To save selected objects only 1. 2. 3. Select the objects with the Pick tool. Click File, Save As. Enable the Selected Only check box.

4. To keep the original drawing intact, type a different name in the File Name box or choose a different folder from the Save In list box. 5. Click Save. Note You can also use the Save As command to save a copy of an existing drawing. Saving a copy under a different name keeps the original intact. Tip You can also save a file by clicking the Save button.

Saving Files Using Other Options

ou can save your drawing in formats compatible with versions 5, 6, 7, or 8 of CorelDRAW; in vector formats other than .CDR; or with the fonts embedded. Embedding the fonts allows someone else to open the file without having the drawing's fonts on their system. Assigning keywords, notes, and thumbnails when you save a file can help you find files later without having to remember their names. To save a drawing in CorelDRAW 5, 6, 7, or 8 format 1. Click File, Save As. 2. Choose Version 5, 6, 7, or 8 from the Version list box. 3. To keep the original drawing, type a different name in the File Name box or choose a different folder from the Save In list box. 4. Note If you want to open your drawing in CorelDRAW version 5, 6, 7, or 8, but your drawing contains fonts not supplied with those versions, convert the text to curves using the Convert To Curves command before you save the file. To save a drawing in vector formats other than .CDR 1. 2. 3. Click File, Save As. Choose one of the vector formats in the Save As Type list box. Click Save. Click Save.

To save a drawing with the fonts embedded

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Click File, Save As. Enable the Embed Fonts Using TrueDoc check box.

To add notes and keywords to a file 1. 2. Click File, Save As. Type the information you want to record about the file in the Notes box.

Type the keywords you want to assign to the file in the Keywords box, separating each keyword with a comma. 3. Click Save.

To set up the thumbnail of a file 1. 2. 3. Notes Keywords can contain a maximum of 37 characters. By default, CorelDRAW adds a color thumbnail to a file when you save it. You can specify a monochrome thumbnail instead, or turn the thumbnail off. If your drawing has more than one page, CorelDRAW uses objects from the active drawing page to create the thumbnail. Related Terms Thumbnail A miniature, low-resolution version of an image or illustration. A thumbnail is also called a header. Including a thumbnail when you save a file lets you see a representation of the drawing before you open it in a different application, such as Corel VENTURA. A thumbnail of the drawing is displayed in the Open dialog box of the other application and lets you verify that you have chosen the right file before you continue. TrueDoc A font technology that lets you save a font used in a drawing with the file. TrueDoc lets a user who does not have a particular font installed on their computer open the drawing and Do one of the following: Click File, Savesaves the file for the first time Click File, Save Aschanges the thumbnail of a file you saved previously Choose a thumbnail type from the Thumbnail list box. Click Save.

edit the text. Without TrueDoc, CorelDRAW converts the text to curves and the user cannot edit the text in the document.

Saving Files Using Advanced Settings

CorelDRAW lets you make your files smaller, more portable, or faster to open and save. You can save various elements of your drawing (such as textures, blends, or extrudes) with the drawing instead of saving a reference to them. Saving textures, blends, and extrudes with the drawing increases the file size, but causes complex drawings to open faster. To save a drawing using Advanced Settings 1. 2. 3. Click File, Save As. Click the Advanced button. Enable one or both of the following check boxes:

Save Presentation Exchange (CMX)makes the drawing readable by all applications that support the .CMX format. File size may increase. Use Current Thumbnailsaves the drawing with the last thumbnail generated. This speeds up saving. 4. In the File Optimization section, enable one or both of the following check boxes:

Use Bitmap Compressioncompresses bitmaps in the drawing to reduce the file size Use Graphic Object Compressioncompresses graphic objects in the drawing to reduce the file size 5. In the Textures section, enable one or both of the following check boxes:

Save Textures With The Fileallows complex drawings to open faster. This increases the file size. Rebuild Textures When Opening The Filecreates smaller files. Complex files may take longer to open. 6. In the Blends And Extrudes section, enable one or both of the following check boxes: Save Blends And Extrudes With The File allows complex drawings to open faster. This increases the file size. Rebuild Blends And Extrudes When Opening The Filecreates smaller files. Complex files may take longer to open. Tip

 You can also access the Advanced Settings from the Options dialog box under Document, Save.

Creating Swap Disk Space for Temporary File Storage

You can store temporary files that are not currently in use in the swap disk space that you specify in CorelDRAW. If you have two hard drives or two partitions, you can use them to set up both a primary and a secondary swap disk. For best results, set the total amount of swap disk space two or three times larger than the size of your uncompressed open images. To create swap disk space for temporary file storage 1. 2. 3. Click Tools, Options. In the Options dialog box, click Workspace, Memory. In the Swap Disk section, do the following:

From the Primary box, choose the drive letter that corresponds to the hard disk you want to use first to store temporary files. From the Secondary box, choose the drive letter that corresponds to the second hard disk you want to use to store temporary files. 4. Notes If you have customized the amount of swap disk space available, it is displayed in the Status Bar. You can click File, Document Info to see an image's size. The Document Info dialog box tells you whether the file size displayed is compressed. When you work with .CPT or .BMP images, the file size is always shown uncompressed. Related Terms Swap disk Hard drive space used by applications to store temporary files not currently in use. Corel applications let you choose two swap disks. This artificially increases the amount of memory available in your computer. You will need to restart CorelDRAW for the new settings to take effect.

Specifying How Much Ram is Used to Store Images

You can choose how much of the available RAM on your computer is reserved for storing the images you open and edit. Set the amount of memory based on the type of work you perform and the number of applications you usually run simultaneously. If you increase the amount of memory reserved for images and find the application's performance has decreased, you might need to reduce this amount so that more RAM is available to run CorelDRAW.

To specify how much RAM is used to store images 1. 2. Click Tools, Options. In the Options dialog box, click Workspace, Memory in the list of categories.

The Memory Usage section of the Memory page displays the total amount of memory available on your computer. 3. In the Max box, type the percentage of the total memory you want to make available for images in CorelDRAW. The amount of memory this percentage corresponds to appears to the right of the Max box. 4. Note The amount of memory allocated for images is displayed in the Status Bar. You will need to restart CorelDRAW for the new settings to take effect.

Closing Files and Windows

If you want to keep the changes made to a file, save it before closing it. If you try to close the file without saving, CorelDRAW asks if you want to save the changes before closing the file. If you don't want to keep the changes, close without saving. The Close command on the Windows menu allows you to close the active window or close all windows. To close a file Click File, Close.

To close the active window Click Window, Close.

To close all windows Click Window, Close All.

Archiving Files
Archiving is a method of saving successive versions of your drawings, and it provides two main benefits: you can access previous versions of your files, and you can do so without creating a large number of files that take up valuable disk space.

When are files archived?

Your files are archived when you choose to do so; archiving is not automatic. You control which versions are archived, depending on how significant they are to you. You can archive a file as a temporary or a permanent version of the file. Temporary versions are replaced by newer versions when the maximum number of temporary versions for the file is reached. Permanent versions are kept until you choose to delete them.

Where do the archived files end up?

CorelDRAW lets you designate a directory for storing archived files. Archived files have the same folder and filenames as your files. You can also keep archived files in the same directory as the original file. No matter where a file is archived (either to a local directory or to the versions directory), the filename is the same. The filename is the full path of the archived file, with special characters (backslash and colon) replaced with a $.

Archiving Current Version of Your File

CorelDRAW lets you save successive versions of your drawings, including the one you are currently working on. This is called archiving, and it provides two main benefits: access to previous versions of your files, and more disk space. To archive files, you must first enable Version Control in your Windows Control Panel. To enable Version Control 1. 2. 3. Click Start, Settings, Control Panel. Double-click Corel Versions. Enable the Enable Version Control check box.

To archive the current version of your drawing 1. 2. Click File, Version Control, Archive Document. Enable one or more of the following check boxes:

Make First Version Permanentpreserves your first version as a permanent version. This is a useful option if the file is fairly complete; otherwise it is not necessary. Use Compressioncompresses your saved versions. This saves disk space, but adds to your retrieval time for larger files. Archive To Single Locationsaves the archive to the directory specified in the Corel Versions dialog box. If this box is not checked, CorelDRAW stores the archive in the same directory as the original file.

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Type the desired number in the Maximum Number Of Temporary Versions box.

This number is not affected by the number of permanent versions you keep. Note When you enable the Make First Version Permanent check box, your file is kept until you choose to delete it. To set the default folder for archiving to a single location 1. 2. 3. 4. Click Start, Settings, Control Panel. Double-click Corel Versions. Click the Browse button. Double-click the folder where you want to archive your files.

Retrieving a Previous Version of the Active File

Opening previous versions of your archived files is easy. To retrieve a previous version of the active file 1. Click File, Version Control, Retrieve From Current Archive. 2. Select the version of the file you wish to retrieve from the Choose A Version To Retrieve list box. 3. Click the Retrieve button. To retrieve a previous version of another archived file 1. Click File, Version Control, Retrieve From Saved Archive. 2. In the Look In list box, double-click the folder containing the archived file you wish to use. 3. Click the filename. 4. Click the Open button. 5. Select a version of the file in the Choose A Version To Retrieve box. 6. Click the Retrieve button.

Backing Up Your Work

's important to safeguard your work against power failures or system problems that can corrupt and destroy your files. CorelDRAW provides automatic saves and backup features that protect your files in case you forget to save them manually. You can set values to specify automatic save intervals. CorelDRAW saves your file according to the time intervals that you set. This file is named BACKUP_OF_FILENAME, where Filename is the name of your file. Another way to safeguard your work is to instruct CorelDRAW to automatically create a backup copy of your image every time you save. This file is named

AUTOBACKUP_OF_FILENAME, and is saved in the same folder as your CorelDRAW file. When a non-CorelDRAW file is opened, it opens in the CorelDRAW file format. This version of the file is then backed up.

Saving Images Automatically

To safeguard your work against accidents and system problems, save your images automatically as you work. To save images automatically 1. 2. 3. 4. Click Tools, Options. In the list of categories, click Workspace, Save. Enable the Auto-backup check box in the Auto-Backup section. Type a value in the Minutes box.

The number that you type represents the time interval between auto-saves. 5. Note Files created by the Auto-backup feature are named AUTOBACKUP_OF_FILENAME. Enable one of the following buttons: Save Back-up To Same Folder As The CDR File Always Back-up To: click the Browse button and choose a folder

Creating Backup Copies of Your Images

ou can create a backup copy of an image each time you save it so that you always have another version of the file on your computer. To create backup copies of images 1. 2. 3. Click Tools, Options. In the list of categories, click Workspace, Save. Enable the Make Backup On Save check box.

CorelDRAW backs up files to the same folder in which you save your document. Notes Backup files are named BACKUP_OF_FILENAME.

 You can specify a different folder in which to store backup files created while you work, but backup files created when you save are always stored in the same folder as your original document.