To Fit the Text to a Path
You will need to select the path by using the Pick tool.
Then, click on the Text tab from the menu bar and choose Fit Text To Path.
Type along the path. The text will then fit to the path.
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To Add an Artistic Text
Click any place in the drawing window by using the Text tool.
You can then begin to type in the text that you want on the drawing. Apply Artistic text effect on the text when you need.
To Apply a Color or Tone Effect
Step 1
You will need to select a bitmapped image.
Step 2
Then click the Effects menu and choose Adjust.
After that click a color or tone effect to specify any settings.
To Apply a Special Effect
The picture at above shows the type of available Special Effects in Corel Draw 10, such as 3D Effects, Art Strokes, Blur, Color Transform, Contour, Creative, Distort, Noise and Sharpen effects.
To apply a special effect on a picture or object, choose the object. Then select a Special Effect type from the list above.
You can then adjust any special-effect settings to the selected object.
To Apply Special Effects to Bitmapped Images
The special effects that can apply to a wide range of bitmapped images:
The three-dimensional special effect can create the illusion of three-dimensional depth.
The art strokes effect can apply hand-painted techniques.
The blur effects make an image to simulate gradual change, movement, or speckling.
To Apply a Mesh Fill to an Object
Step 1
You will need to choose an object to apply a Mesh Fill effect.
Step 2
Click the Interactive Mesh Fill tool at the Interactive fill fly-out.
Step 3
Type the number of columns or rows in the top portion or bottom portion of the Grid size box and press the Enter key.
Step 3
Then you can adjust the grid nodes on the object.
To Apply a Uniform Fill
Step 1
At the beginning, you have to select an object that you can apply a Uniform Fill effect.
Then click the Interactive Fill tool at the Interactive Fills fly-out.
Step 2
Choose the Uniform Fill from the Fill Type list box.
To Edit a Rollover Object
Step 1
First of all, you have to select an object that you wish to edit and then click the Effects tab from the menu bar and choose Rollover. After that click Edit Rollover.
Step 2
Then, specify attributes of the object.
Click on the Effects menu and choose Rollover followed by Finish Editing Rollover.
A drawing in which you are editing a rollover cannot be closed. You must finish editing the button before that.
To Create a Rollover Object
Step 1
To create a Rollover object, you have to select an object to be created.
Step 2
Then choose the Effects tab from the menu bar and choose Rollover followed by Create Rollover.
To Change the Mapping Mode
Step 1
You are prompted to click the Interactive Envelope tool at the Interactive tools fly-out.
Step 2
Then, click an object with an envelope. Choose once from the Mapping mode list box.
Step 3
After that drag the nodes or the nodes' control points.
To Remove a Distortion
At the beginning, you have to select a distorted object that you wish to remove.
Then, click on the Effects menu and choose Clear distortion as shown at the picture below.
To Distort an Object
Step 1
First of all, you have to click the Interactive Distortion tool in the Tool fly-out.
Step 2
After that click Push and pull, or Zipper, or Twister distortion buttons and specify the settings.
Step 3
Click on the place where you want to place the center of distortion.
To Copy a Distortion
Step 1
At the beginning, you will need to choose the object, which you want to copy as a distortion.
Step 2
Click on the Effects tab from the menu bar and choose Copy Effect followed by Distortion From.
Step 3
Finally, you have to click on a distorted object to complete.
To Set the Dimension Units
First of all, you have to select a dimension line and click on the Show Units for Dimension button.
Then, choose the options from the following list boxes:
Dimension style list box
Dimension precision list box
Dimension units list box
To Draw a Dimension Line
You have to click the Dimension tool at the Curve fly-out.
Then, click the Vertical, Horizontal, or Slanted Dimension tool buttons to draw a dimension line.
Select the start and end points of the dimension line and click where you want to place the dimension text.
To Draw a Callout
Step 1
To draw a callout, you are prompted to select Dimension tool at the Curve fly-out.
Step 2
After that click the Callout tool. Then click on the place where you want the first callout segment to start.
Click on the second segment to start and select the place to enter the callout text.
Finally, type in the text that you want.
To Offset the Lines that you Spray
Step 1
First of all, you have to select a spray list and click on the Offset button.
Step 2
Then, enable the Use Offset check box to offset the objects from the path of the line sprayed and choose an offset direction from the Offset direction.
To Create a New Spray List
Step 1
You will need to select the Effects menu and click Artistic Media.
After that choose an object or a set of grouped objects.
Step 2
Click on the Save button in the Artistic Media Docker window.
To Start or End an Objects in a Blend
You can select the start or end object.
First of all, you have to select a blend. Click on the Start and end object properties button followed by the Show Start, or Show End button.
To Blend Objects
You can blend along a straight line.
Open the Interactive tools fly-out, and click the Interactive Blend tool as shown at the image above.
After that you have to select the first object and drag over the second object.
To Revert to a Clone Master
Step 1
To do so, you are prompted to right-click a modified clone, and click Revert To Master as the picture shown.
Step 2
Enable one of the clones at check boxes, like Clone Fill, to restore the master fill attributes.
To Snap Objects
Step 1
At the beginning, you will need to select the objects that you want to snap.
Step 2
After that, click the View menu and select Snap to Objects.
To Align a Series of Objects
Step 1
First of all, you have to select the objects that you want to align.
Then, click on the Arrange tab from the menu bar and choose Align and Distribute.
Step 2
After that, click the Align tab and enable the check boxes that correspond to the horizontal and vertical alignment as shown at the picture below.
Step 3
Enable Edge of page or Center of page to align to grid at the align area.
To Ungroup the Objects
Step 1
To ungroup objects, you have to select the grouped object or all the grouped objects.
Step 2
Then, click Arrange tab from the menu bar and choose Ungroup.
To Combine the Objects
Step 1
At the beginning, you have to click on the objects that you want to combine.
Step 2
Then click Arrange tab from the menu bar and select Combine.
To Group the Objects
Step 1
First of all, you have to click on the objects that you want to group.
Step 2
Then, click on the Arrange tab from the menu bar and choose Group.
To Reverse the Order of Multiple Objects
Step 1
First of all, you have to click on the objects that you want to reverse.
Step 2
After that click on the Arrange tab from the menu bar and select Order followed by Reverse Order as shown at the picture above.
To Change the Order of an Object
You can change the stacking order of objects on a layer by sending objects to the front, back, behind or in front of other objects.
Step 1
You will need to select an object.
Step 2
Select Arrange tab from the menu bar and select Order.
Click on the order to arrange the object.
To Rotate an Object around a Ruler Coordinate
Step 1
First, you will need to select an object and click the Free Transform at Shape edit fly-out.
Step 2
Type in the values in horizontal or vertical ruler or both.
Step 3
Now, type an Angle value to rotate the object.
To Rotate an Object
Step 1
To rotate an object, you have to select an object that you want to rotate. Click on the Window tab from the menu bar and choose Dockers followed by Transformations. Then, click Rotate.
Step 2
After that type an Angle value in the box.
Step 3
Type values in horizontal and vertical coordinates boxes to rotate the object.
To Mirror an Object
Step 1
At the beginning, you will need to select an object and click on the Window tab from the menu bar and choose Dockers. After that choose Transformation followed by Scale.
Step 2
Click horizontal or vertical buttons to flip the object left to right or top to bottom.
To Stretch an Object
Step 1
You will need to select an object. Click on the Window tab from the menu bar and choose Dockers. Then choose Transformations followed by Size.
Step 2
After that enable the non-proportional option if you want to change the object's anchor point.
Step 3
Type a value in the width and height boxes as shown at the picture below.
To Skew an Object
Step 1
First of all, you have to click on an object.
Then, select Window tab from the menu bar and select Dockers.
After that choose Transformations followed by Skew.
Step2
Type in the horizontal and vertical values.
To Control the Size of an Object
You can drag any of the corner selection handles to size a selected object.
To Scale an Object
Step 1
You have to select an object first and click the Window tab from the menu bar and select Dockers.
After that click Transformations followed by Scale.
Step 2
Then type in the horizontal and vertical values.
To Set the Nudge Distances
Step 1
At the beginning, you have to click on the Tools tab from the menu bar and select Options.
Step 2
Double-click the Document and click Rulers.
Type in a value for Nudge, Super nudge or the Micro nudge a shown as the picture above.
To Position an Object by using a Different Anchor Point
Step 1
First of all, you have to click on an object and select Window followed by Dockers.
After that you ought to choose Transformations Then, select Positions.
Step 2
You have to disable the Relative position check box and type in the value for horizontal and vertical.
Step 3
Finally, click on Apply.
To Position an Object
Select an object and type a value in the x-axis and y-axis stacked boxes as shown at the picture above.
To select Multiple or an Object
Click an object with the Pick tool to select an object.
Hold down SHIFT, and click each object that you want to select the multiple objects.
To Deselect the Objects
To deselect objects, you have to click on the Pick tool, and click to a blank space in the drawing window to deselect a single object.
Hold down SHIFT and click the object by using the Pick tool to deselect a single object in multiple selected objects.
To draw a Pre-defined Shape
Step 1
Open the Perfect shapes fly-out, and click one of the tools.
Step 2
Then, click a shape at perfect shapes picker.
Step 3
Drag in the drawing window until it becomes the shape and the size that you want.
To add Text to a Pre-defined Form
Step 1
You will need to select the Text tool and position the cursor inside the shape's outline until it changes to a Text cursor box a shown as the picture above.
Step 2
Then, type and format the font inside the shape.
To Change Pre-defined Shape by using its Glyphs
Step 1
To do so, you will need to select a shape with a glyph.
Step 2
Then, drag the glyph until it becomes the form that you want.
To Add Text to a Pre-defined Form
Step 1
To add text, you have to click on the Text tool.
Step 2
Then, position the cursor inside the shape's outline until it changes to a Text cursor box.
Step 3
Finally, type the format of the font inside the shape.
To Draw a Grid
Step 1
To draw a Grid, click on the Graph Paper tool at the Object fly-out.
Step 2
After that type in the values in the top and bottom portions of the graph paper columns and rows as shown as the image.
Step 3
Then, position the cursor where you want the grid to appear and drag diagonally.
To Draw a Spiral
Step 1
At the beginning, you have to click on the Spiral tool at the Object fly-out.
Step 2
Then, type in the values in the Spiral revolutions box on the property bar.
Step 3
On the property bar, click Symmetrical Spiral or Logarithmic Spiral buttons.
Step 4
Drag diagonally in the drawing window until the spiral becomes the required size.
To Reshape a Polygon
To do so, you ought to change the number of sides of a polygon or number of points on a star.
Select a polygon and type in a value in the Number of points on the field as shown below:
To Draw Polygon
Click the Polygon tool at the Object fly-out, and drag in the drawing window until the polygon become the size that you want. This is shown at the image below.
To Draw an Ellipse
First, you will need to select the Ellipse tool, and drag in the drawing window until the ellipse becomes to the shape that you want.
To Draw an Arc
First of all, you have to click on the Shape tool at the Shape fly-out.
Click the node of the ellipse or circle, and drag outside the shape's perimeter.
To Round the Corners of a Rectangle
Step 1
You have to click on the Shape tool at the Shape fly-out a shown as the picture below.
Step 2
Then, click a rectangle and drag a corner node along the outline of the shape.
