® Reviewer’s Guide
Contents 1 | Introducing CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 ....................1 2 | Customer Profiles.............................................................3 Design professionals ............................................................................................ 3 Occasional graphics users .................................................................................... 3 3 | What’s Included with CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4? ..5 Applications ....................................................
1 Introducing CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X4 CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X4 is an affordable and comprehensive suite of intuitive page-layout, illustration, photo-editing, and bitmap-to-vector tracing applications. The trusted choice of professional and aspiring designers, the suite includes new tools that fuel the creative process, simplify project management, and optimize the graphic design workflow.
2 Customer Profiles Design professionals Design professionals in advertising and printing industries spend much of their time creating and editing graphics, working with text, and retouching photos. With time-saving features such as interactive layout tables, live text formatting, and independent page layers, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 gives them innovative design tools that optimize their workflow. Other design professionals focus primarily on sign making, screen printing, and engraving.
3 What’s Included with CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X4? Applications • CorelDRAW® X4: CorelDRAW X4 is an intuitive vector-illustration and page-layout application that meets the demands of today’s busy design professionals and occasional graphics users. It delivers results fast, whether users are creating a company logo or working toward demanding production schedules.
Content • A collection of more than 10,000 high-quality clipart and digital images includes 4,000 new images, all of which were individually selected to meet the needs of design professionals and occasional graphics users • New! 1,000 professional high-resolution digital photos • 1,000 OpenType® fonts, including 75 Windows Glyph List 4 (WGL4) fonts and 10 single-line engraving fonts • 80 professionally designed templates Documentation • User guide • CorelDRAW® Handbook — Insights from the Experts
4 Top New and Enhanced Features CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 is an affordable and comprehensive suite that combines intuitive page-layout, illustration, photo-editing, and bitmap-to-vector tracing applications. The trusted choice of professional and aspiring designers, the suite includes new tools that fuel the creative process, simplify project management, and optimize the graphic design workflow.
New! CorelDRAW® ConceptShare™: The new CorelDRAW ConceptShare docker is a valuable online collaboration tool. In a Web-based environment, CorelDRAW ConceptShare lets users share their designs and ideas with colleagues or clients in real time. Users can easily create multiple workspaces, upload their designs, and invite others to provide feedback or submit their own ideas.
New! Adobe® Color Management Module: CorelDRAW Graphics Suite now supports the Adobe Color Management Module (CMM), which provides consistent color transformations by using industry-standard International Color Consortium® (ICC) color profiles. This makes it easy for users to closely match colors between Corel and Adobe applications. Enhanced! Print Merge: With CorelDRAW X4, the Print Merge wizard makes it easier than ever to combine text from a data source with a drawing.
saving files in order to better organize their projects. In addition, users can edit file properties from within the CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 applications or from Windows Explorer and Windows Vista Search. Users of Windows XP can use Windows Desktop Search or any other desktop search application that supports the iFilter format. New! Content: CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 includes an abundance of new, editable content on an easily searchable DVD.
Enhanced! Adobe® product support: To ensure a seamless workflow, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 provides enhanced support for Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Illustrator CS3, PDF 1.7, PDF/A, and Adobe® Acrobat® 8. When exporting CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 files to the new Adobe Illustrator CS3 format, users can now choose a format for text in the exported files. This makes it easier for users to exchange files between the applications.
The new Table tool makes it easy to create a structured layout with graphic elements embedded in table cells. Give it a try Creating a table 1 In CorelDRAW X4, click the Table tool in the toolbox. 2 On the property bar, type values in the Number of rows and columns boxes. The value you type in the top portion specifies the number of rows; the value you type in the bottom portion specifies the number of columns. 3 Drag diagonally to draw the table.
Give it a try 3 In the upper-right corner of the Object Manager docker, click the flyout button, and click New Layer. 4 Type a name for the new layer, or click to accept the default naming convention (Layer 2). Page 1 of your document now has two independent layers. To make a layer active, click the layer name. The name of the active layer is indicated by a bold red font. 5 To create a new page, click the flyout button in the top right corner of the Object Manager docker, and click New Page.
New! Mirror paragraph text: With CorelDRAW X4, users can now interactively mirror text. Users can mirror text horizontally or vertically, or both, which is essential for outputting content for certain specialized devices. Users can easily mirror paragraph text. Give it a try Mirroring paragraph text 1 In CorelDRAW X4, click the Text tool in the toolbox. 2 On the drawing page, drag to create a paragraph text frame. 3 Type to add text to the frame.
The Learning tools accessible from the Welcome screen New! CorelDRAW® Handbook — Insights from the Experts: This new book showcases practical, real-world examples of accomplished designs by CorelDRAW experts. By deconstructing designs and sharing their wisdom and best practices, experts from a variety of industries demonstrate the power of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4. New! Training videos: CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 includes 2 hours of training videos on DVD.
Discover advanced image-editing features CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 provides advanced image-editing features that help users get expected results the first time. New! Corel PHOTO-PAINT® user interface: The Corel PHOTO-PAINT X4 user interface has been redesigned and modernized with new icons, menus, and controls. The redesigned Corel PHOTO-PAINT user interface New! Raw camera file support: CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 now supports raw camera file formats for more than 300 different types of cameras.
New! Straighten image: With CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4, users can quickly and easily straighten images that were scanned or photographed at an angle. The interactive controls, a grid with vertical and horizontal guidelines, and an integrated histogram that provides results in real time, make it easier than ever to straighten crooked images. In addition, users can choose to have their images automatically cropped. Users can quickly and easily straighten crooked images.
Enhanced! Tone Curve adjustments: In Corel PHOTO-PAINT X4, the Tone Curve dialog box has been enhanced to help users adjust their images with more precision. With an integrated histogram, users now receive real-time feedback as they make adjustments to their images. In addition, the new Eyedropper lets users pinpoint specific color locations on the tone curve of their image. Users can also select, add, or delete nodes along the tone curve.
5 Summary of New and Enhanced Features The following is a list of the new and enhanced features offered by CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4. Streamline your workflow • Enjoy the new, more intuitive user interface with redesigned and modernized icons, menus, and controls. • Use the new CorelDRAW® ConceptShare™ to collaborate with colleagues or clients in real time. • Save time and enjoy more control over bitmap-to-vector conversion with the enhanced Corel® PowerTRACE™ X4.
Find your design assets • Take advantage of the enhanced Windows Vista® integration to easily organize projects and search for files. • Leverage an abundance of new, editable content which includes 10,000 clipart images and 1,000 high-quality photos. • Ensure that output is optimized for its intended audience with a collection of specialized fonts, including single-line engraving fonts and OpenType® cross-platform fonts.
• Access online, project-based instruction with new and updated tutorials from CorelTUTOR™. • Visit CorelDRAW.com and share designs, ideas, and inspiration with this growing online community. Discover advanced image-editing features • Experience new support for raw camera files with interactive controls that let users preview adjustments in real time. • Use new, interactive controls to quickly and easily straighten images.
6 Design Gallery As a trusted and versatile design tool, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite has been embraced by graphic design professionals around the world, in areas as diverse as airbrushing murals, vehicle illustration, magazine layout, and fashion design. In the following pages, you’ll find examples of the imagination and passion that CorelDRAW Graphics Suite users bring to their projects.
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