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18 | Corel DESIGNER X7 User Guide
You can change the shape, outline width, color, and fill type of the QR code pixels, change the background color and fill type, and more.
There’s also a Validate option, which analyzes the QR code to ensure it can be read by QR code readers, smartphones, and scanners. For
more information, see “Inserting and editing QR codes” on page 235.
Enhanced! Fountain fills
You can now create elliptical and rectangular fountain fills, apply transparency to individual fill color nodes, repeat a fill within a filled object,
adjust a fill’s angle of rotation, and smooth the blend transition of a fountain fill. You can also save personal fountain fills and share them
in the new Content Exchange, an online repository of community content that can be downloaded and is accessible to anyone with a
corel.com account. Plus, you can apply and adjust fountain fills more quickly, accurately, and creatively by using the new interactive controls
in the Property manager docker. For more information, see “Applying fountain fills” on page 302.
New! Bitmap pattern fills
The Property manager docker provides enhanced controls for bitmap pattern fills, making it faster and easier to preview, apply, and
interactively transform bitmap fills. You can save personal bitmap pattern fills and share them in the Content Exchange, an online repository
of community content that can be downloaded and is accessible to anyone with a corel.com account. Plus, the new .FILL format is
supported by Patterns™, a new iOS app that makes it easy to create bitmap patterns from photos.
You can precisely arrange and position, or intuitively scale and rotate, an object in relation to other onscreen objects.
Enhanced! Color Styles docker viewing options
The Color styles docker also offers convenient viewing options, including Hint view, which provides a visual indication of all document
objects that use a specific color style, and Page sorter, which displays thumbnails of all pages in a document and previews changes as you
adjust colors. You can also click View Page sorter to access thumbnails of all pages in a document, with live previews of changes you make
to the document’s color styles. For more information, see “Viewing color styles” on page 482.
Leverage technical assets
Access your critical data from various sources to ensure all of your important technical files can be delivered in a readable format.
New! 3D illustration updating
To speed up technical-publication authoring, CorelDRAW Technical Suite X7 with the Lattice3D Studio CAD Corel Edition Add-On offers the
Auto detection and update command. It lets you automatically generate updated vector illustrations to replace ones in DES files that were
created using the Send to Corel DESIGNER command. The illustration specifications, such as view, positions of the objects, line weights and
export settings, are fully recognized and maintained. As a result, the illustrations are recreated using the updated 3D model and inserted in
the same place as the original, allowing technical illustrators to start a publication with a preliminary 3D design and update it with the final
design instantly.