CorelDraw Introduction Course

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Course Overview

CorelDRAW is a powerful business graphics programme with an extensive range of tools. It enables the user to edit any shape or character with ease and precision, generate text both in paragraph or headline style, fit text to curves and objects.

Audience

This course is designed for Users who want an understanding of HTML and an introduction to creating dynamic Web Sites, based on Microsoft applications and technologies

Skills Gained

The course involves hands-on exercises with a series of specially prepared examples to improve confidence in working with the main CorelDRAW tool set. The course also allows exploration of areas of individual interest and client requirement within the framework of the structured course.

By The End Of This Course You Will Have Learned

• About HTML, the standard language used for Web Pages, using Notepad as a simple text editor for static Web Pages
• The skills necessary to author dynamic Web Pages with client-side scripting of the Web Browser, using Microsoft Visual InterDev, Internet Explorer and JavaScript
• The skills necessary to author dynamic Web Pages with server-side scripting of the Web Server, using Microsoft Visual InterDev, Internet Information Server, ASP and VBScript.Email.

Prerequisites

Basic familiarity with PCs and experience of using Windows is essential Where the client will be using CorelDRAW with other software packages, knowledge of their operation would be beneficial, i.e. Power Point, Word, Front Page.

Course Outline

• Tools & Controls
• Toolbox, Status Bar, Tool-Bars
• Wire Frame & Preview Displays
• Roll-Up Menu Boxes
• Page Set-up
• Orientation
• Backgrounds
• Templates
• Multiple Pages
• Grids & Guidelines
• Drawing Objects
• Squares, Ellipses & etc.
• Working with Objects
• Selecting, Moving; Rotating; Skewing,
• Duplicating & Cloning
• Using Shift Key
• Aligning, Combining, Grouping,
• Shaping, Distributing
• Grouping & Shaping Objects
• Grouping, Un-grouping & Combining
• Breaking Apart
• Weld, Intersection & Trim
• Outline & Fills
• Line Attributes; Dashes & Arrowheads
• Uniform colour
• Fountain Fills; Presets; Stripes
• Gradients, Textures
• Custom Fountain Fills
• Formatting
• Artistic & Paragraph Text
• Using Text Toolbar; Typefaces or Fonts
• Fitting Text to Path & shapes
• Spell Checker: Thesaurus: Find & Replace
• Import file via File Menu
• Multi-column Text Pages
• Paragraph Command; Bullets
• The Shape Tool
• Moving, Joining & Editing Nodes
• The Shape Tool with Text
• Character-spacing, Attributes &
• Movement
• "Nudging" Characters; Line Spacing
• Importing Images
• Types of Graphics File; Clip Art
• Working with Bitmaps
• Exporting Images
• File Formats; Export; Windows Metafile
• Encapsulated PostScript (EPS)
• Computer Graphic (CGM)
• Working with Bitmaps
• Cropping, Editing, Exporting,
• Transforming
• Clip Art
• Importing and Exporting
• Saving and File Management

CorelDraw Introduction Course / CM0283