Objects and Text

July, 2016

• 3 July

  Creating a Namebadge with Logo From a Windows Doc File

  

  In this article we will look at how to take a customer supplied artwork in a Doc file and import it into CorelDraw. Once we have imported it in we will vector the artwork. Because this name badge is going to be done on reverse material and be done in …
• 3 July

  Creating a Music Box Part 3

  

  This lesson is a continuation of the creation of a music box Here is the Part to Create The image on the left is the image that we created in our second project. The image on the right is the image that we ned to recreate. You will notice from …
• 3 July

  Creating a Music Box Part 2

  

  In this lesson we will continue looking at how to recreate the music box. Here is Our Original Here is the one side of our box that we will be recreating. Place the Original in the Top Left Corner As we did in the Part 1 we need to place …
• 3 July

  Creating a Music Box Part 1

  

  One of the more popular downloads off the Epilog Website is the music box. A number of customers have asked how to recreate the technique of interlocking tabs. This is easy in CorelDraw and we can use the existing music box design to show you how to recreate the design. …
• 3 July

  Arcing Text in CorelDraw Part 1 Pre X3

  

  Arcing Text in CorelDraw Help File – http://www.engrave.ca/files/ArcEngravingv9.cdr Although most commands are fairly intuitive in CorelDraw there are some such as arcing text that, for a lot of people, tend to create a questions as to how it is done. Create our Circle and Text Arcing text in CorelDraw is easy …
• 3 July

  Arcing Text in CorelDraw Part 2 Pre X3

  

  Arcing Engraving Part 2 We have gone over creating arcs so let us look at a few more manipulations that can be done with text that is arc. We originally talked about how we can manipulate our text size, position and circle size. Let us look at how we can …

June, 2016

• 28 June

  Creating Vertical Text in CorelDraw

  

  One of the more buried techniques in CorelDraw is the ability to created text that is vertical. That is it runs North South and has one letter per line. You can type a letter one at a time and press enter but the alignment is not always right. This Technique …
• 28 June

  Creating a 3 Column Layout Using a Table in CorelDraw

  

  I had a customer ask me to do a layout for him on a metal plate with some thermark so he could laser it. I could have done this creating 3 columns and used the align tools but I thought it would be a good exercise to show you how …