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place it within your illustration. This feature also lets you perform Print Merges, to customize each printed piece of art to its intended recipient. Corel now boasts an additional 51 fontsto giveyou an even broader choice of typefaces in your designs. Along with fltting text to any path, you can now fiit text to shapes, creating unique special efFects (for example,fit theword "round" to a circle shape). Corel's limitation to 256 characters in one text block is now a thing of the past. The upper limit has yet to be found ' All of these text features make Corel
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Draw a most valuable addition to any desktop publisher's library of software. But there's still more.. .
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Corel 2.0 takes full advantage of Windows 9.0's 5-D interfiLce. Carel's screen includes "button" tools and selections as well as several new features. At the bottom, younowhave auserMeflnablecolor palette making color selection quick and simple. Colors can now be defined through Hue, Saturation and Chroma, the Red, Green, Blue (RGB) systemused to display color on monitors — as well as its previous Pantone or CMYK systems. An improved status bar lists cursor position — in points — as well as object size and position, object type, and fill and outline value UserMefinable grids are displayedon screen as dot patternL Rulers are used to draw guidelines and reorigin the zero point just as in PageMaker. Previews can take up the full screen if. desired as well as display a simulacrum of PostScript pattern 6llsgone are the multitude of PSs used in previous versions. User preferences include the abiTity to program the second mouse button to operate as another tool or to zoom into
your drawing and more... You can also program the linodrawing tool to operate as a &eehand pen as before or create
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bezier curves, a vast improvement in precision drawing control
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avoiding tim~onsuming Save procedures and making sure Drawalways saves your changes automatically. Printing is improved on HP LaserJets through a newrasterizing feature giving better type on non-PostScript printers (users who want to improve HP ZaserJet printing speed &om Windows should also get Microsoft's Supplemental Driver library. It providesup to 50% faster LaserJet printing; $15 &om Microsoft). A new printing message box new lists which objects are being sent to the printer, giving you a visual indicator of the time it takes to print.
additional Tools Ee Utilities Corel Draw has always ofiered excellentvalue for your money through the additional tools provided with the program itself.Again this hasbeen improved. Draw now includes a better organized and enhanced cli~ co l l ection containing over 750 drawings in 14 categorieL It also boasts more than 8,000 symbols in 86 categories — a libraxy you can enhance with your own symbols. Additionalutilitiesincluch; CorelTrace to automatically convertscanned images to Corel Draw outline format.
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utility, lets you import almost any manufacturer'stypefacesintoCorel Draw andexportanyCorelDrawfonttoAdobe ' Type 1 format. This lets you use alt of. CorelDraw's 150 fonts in any other DTP program. Mosaic, a new tool, lets you convert drawing collections to libraries, compress 6les to save disk space, and
select drawings visually.
Conclusion The features listed above are by no
means a comprehensive description of Draw 2.0'snew features.Its enhancements coveramuch broader range than can be described here. For previous owners of Corel, $125 for this upgrade is more than worth it. For publishers new to the desktop, Corel Draw 2.0offersyou
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2.0 is in many ways faster than it was before.Users can interrupt redrawing of the screen image, avoiding the sometimes interminable waits incurred in Draw 1.0. File selection includes an image preview, making sure you get the right drawing when you open a file. (This isafunction ofversion 2.0.Old drawings will not preview until they have been openedandsaved.)
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could easily cost over $2,000 elsewhere. How can they do i' Only through continued support by us, their user base. Corel Draw is byfar the best and most comprehensive illustration program aixyuhewe.' Nothing rivals its features on
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