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The following list describes the purpose of these options on the property bar:● Zoom Levels To increase your current view by a preset magnification, use the Zoom Levels drop-down selecto

The following list describes the purpose of these options on the property bar:

● Zoom Levels To increase your current view by a preset magnification, use the Zoom Levels drop-down selector from the standard property bar when the Zoom tool is not chosen When the tool is chosen, you’ll want to use the Zoom tool property bar You’ll find selections ranging from 10 percent to 1,600 percent, along with some quick views for zooming based on page size You can also type a value directly in the Zoom Levels combo box and then pressENTER; however, the zoom levels always increase and decrease beginning at the center of the drawing window The option to “zoom in to 1,600 percent, but zoom toward the lower left of the window” isn’t an option Views saved in the View Manager (discussed later in this chapter) are also included on the drop-down list

● Zoom In Zoom In is the default state while the Zoom tool is selected Clicking once in the drawing window increases your view magnification by twice the current percentage

of zoom—100 percent goes to 200 percent with a click, then to 400 percent with another click in the window Here’s an important point: when you zoom in this way, using the

tool and not the Zoom Levels selections, you zoom in centered relative to the tool’s cursor location onscreen You direct the final point of your zoom by centering it with your cursor You can also use the Zoom tool to perform marquee zooming, shown in

Figure 4-4 You place your cursor at the corner of the area you want to magnify, and then click-drag diagonally to the opposing corner of an imaginary bounding box that defines the area to which you want to zoom You can target any two opposing corners, but most users tend to diagonally drag from upper left to lower right of an area

FIGURE 4-3 Here are all the property bar options you’ll need to navigate a magnified

CorelDRAW document

Zoom in (command)

Zoom to all objects

Zoom to width

Zoom to height

Zoom levels

Zoom out (command) Zoom to selection Zoom to page

CorelDRAW’s zooming extent runs from a minimum of 1 percent to a maximum of 264,583 percent You’d be hard-pressed to need a greater magnification range The Royal Observatory in Edinburgh is currently looking into CorelDRAW X5—they downloaded the trial version.

● Zoom Out To decrease your view magnification using the Zoom tool, click the

right mouse button anywhere on or off your document page, or holdSHIFTin combination with the left mouse button (in case your right mouse button is broken)

Alternatively, click the Zoom Out button (shown next) on the property bar Doing so decreases your view to your last-used magnification or by a power of 2, and the center of the zoom out is the center of the drawing window Just as with zooming in, zooming out while using the Zoom tool is directed by the location of the Zoom tool cursor onscreen If you want, for example, to zoom out to the upper right of a page, you put the cursor at the upper right of the page and then right-click To zoom out while any tool is selected, pressF3

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FIGURE 4-4 Marquee-dragging is the easy way to pinpoint a location and zoom in

Begin at a corner. Click-drag to the opposing corner. Zoomed-in area

Zoom in (normal tool state,

click left mouse button)

Zoom out (hold SHIFT while using Zoom tool, or right-click)

● Zoom One-Shot The Zoom One-Shot command is for selecting the Zoom tool momentarily for a single Zoom In or Zoom Out command while you are using any tool Once the zoom has been accomplished, your previous tool reappears This zoom command is available in CorelDRAW, but you won’t find it on any toolbar or

on the property bar Instead, it’s an unassigned feature that you can access only through customization using a button If you prefer to use keyboard shortcuts,F2is your key To make the Zoom One-Shot command appear as a button in a logical and convenient place, the property bar is ideal—the Zoom One-Shot button can be seen there whenever the Pick tool is chosen First, make sure nothing is selected with the Pick tool, or this isn’t going to work Open the Options dialog (CTRL+J), click Workspace | Customization | Commands to display the command customization page, and choose View from the drop-down menu Then, find the Zoom One-Shot button, drag the button to the property bar (between the Nudge Distance and Duplicate Distance boxes is good), and then release the button, though only after you see an I-beam to confirm that you’re adding the button to the desired location

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● Zoom To Selected When you have one or more objects selected in the drawing window, choosing this command changes your view magnification and viewing position of the page to show the entire selection in the window Choose Zoom To Selected from either the Zoom property bar or the Zoom Levels drop-down menu

You can also Zoom to a selected object while any tool is selected by pressing

SHIFT+F2

● Zoom To All Objects Zoom To All Objects changes your view magnification

to display all objects visible in your document window, regardless of whether the objects are on or off the current document page Choose Zoom To All Objects from either the Zoom property bar or the Zoom Levels drop-down menu Alternatively, use theF4shortcut while any tool is selected

● Zoom To Page This changes your view to fit your current page size completely

within the document window Choose Zoom To Page from either the Zoom property bar or the Zoom Levels drop-down menu, or pressSHIFT+F4while any tool is selected

● Zoom To Page Width/Height These two commands enable you to zoom your

view to the entire width or height of the current page You’ll find these tool buttons

in the Zoom property bar or the Zoom Levels drop-down menu

Using the Mouse Wheel for Zooming

Affordable, high-quality input devices such as the mouse and even some styli for graphics

tablets have had a combo wheel/button between the left and the right since the 1990s

Applications (when the engineers wrote the feature in) can scroll a document window and

also zoom a document window Happily, Corel engineers built in this capability for zooming

(it’s enabled by default) To zoom into a page, push the scroll wheel away from you; zooming

out is done by dragging the mouse (or stylus) wheel toward you, as shown here If you don’t

care for this feature, you can restore mouse wheel action to scrolling by choosing Options

(CTRL+J) | Workspace | Display, and then choosing Scroll from the Default Action For Mouse

Wheel drop-down list

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If your zooms feel jerky when you’re using the scroll wheel, this is not a CorelDRAW problem, but rather that of the physical wheel (the way it was designed) But you may

be able to fine-tune the scroll action using the manufacturer’s mouse driver options.

The best place to check for mouse options is in Windows Start Menu | Control Panel | Whatever icon you see for your mouse (if any) If there’s no icon for your mouse (or other input device) in the Control Panel, check Start | All Programs.

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Customizing View Shortcuts

Many of the Zoom and Hand tool commands in CorelDRAW have preassigned shortcut keys that can be changed To access these shortcut key commands for viewing, follow these steps:

1. Open the Options dialog (CTRL+J)or choose Tools | Options

2. On the left side of the dialog, under Workspace, click to expand Customization, and then click Commands to view the Commands page

3. Choose View from the drop-down menu at the top-left corner of the right side

of the dialog, and notice that a list of view items appears below it In this list, click to select the tool or command to change, as shown next

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4. Click the Shortcut Keys tab at the top of the rightmost section of the dialog to display the shortcut key options Click to make an insertion point in the New Shortcut Key box, and then press the key combination (or single key) that you want to assign as the new shortcut If, as shown in this example, you want Zoom

To Selection to beCTRL+SHIFT+Zinstead of the defaultSHIFT+F2, you pressCTRL andSHIFTandZat the same time (you don’t type “Shift” or “Ctrl”) If a conflict

appears in the Currently Assigned To field, you can rethink your custom keyboard combo, or dismiss (overwrite) the default key assignment by just clicking Assign Click the Assign button when you’ve got the keyboard key combo of your dreams entered

Then click this button.

Type new shortcut key on the keyboard.

You can quickly Zoom To All Objects on or off the document page by double-clicking the Zoom Tool button in the toolbox.

Using the Pan Tool

The Pan tool—also commonly called the Hand tool—is a convenient alternative to using

document scroll bars; it’s your avatar for your physical hand while in CorelDRAW The

Hand tool’s keyboard shortcut isH (for “hand”), and it works exactly as you’d anticipate To

use it, click-drag in the drawing window, and your view will travel in the same direction

The principal advantage to using the Hand tool over the document window scroll bar

“thumbs” (that screen element in the center of a scroll bar you use to click-drag) is one of

economy; you don’t have to put in several “mouse miles” to change your view, and the Hand

tool is great for adjusting your document view by a fraction of an inch, with precision

The Hand tool’s cursor looks like a hand (Corel engineers gave a lot of consideration to

the cursor), and with a click-drag, you can scroll your view in any direction (often called

panning) as you would with a camera As you do this, the scroll bars and document rulers

move in unison to reflect the new position

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Double-click the Pan Tool button in the toolbox to instantly center your page view.

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Pan tool

Pan tool cursor Rulers travel along with Pan tool drags.

5. To delete a shortcut that has already been assigned, click the shortcut in the Current Shortcut Keys box, and then click the Delete button

6. Click OK to close the dialog and apply the shortcut key changes

Several shortcuts are available while using the Pan tool, some of which are for zooming, not panning A right-click using the Pan tool results in a Zoom Out command, and a double-click causes a Zoom In command You can also use the keyboard to pan the view of your document while any tool is selected by using these shortcuts:

● Pan left Press and holdALT+LEFT ARROW

● Pan right Press and holdALT+RIGHT ARROW

Controlling Zoom and Pan Tool Behavior

The Options dialog is where you can customize certain actions when using the Zoom and Hand tools Right-clicks, by default, trigger Zoom Out for both the Zoom and Hand tools However, you might want to reassign right-clicking for the Hand and Zoom tools to be more consistent with the right-click behavior—in other words, to display a pop-up context menu like the other toolbox tools do

If this is your preference, you can change your right-clicks by opening the Options dialog (CTRL+J) and clicking to expand the tree directories under Toolbox | Zoom, Hand Tool, as shown here In this dialog, you can set the behavior of the right-clicks, using either tool to open the pop-up menu instead

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● Pan up Press and holdALT+UP ARROW.

● Pan down Press and holdALT+DOWN ARROW

Special View Modes

Other types of views are found in CorelDRAW In addition to viewing quality and

resolution, you might have the need to change the page order in a multi-page document for a

tidier presentation Hey, you could certainly do with a preview setting that eliminates the

workspace and puts the focus on your artwork!

The following sections explore these features, how to work with them, and how to provide

views of your work you might not even have considered You’re going to love this stuff.

Page Sorter View

CorelDRAW Page Sorter view (covered in detail in Chapter 6) becomes available as a

special view mode when your document has at least one page; two or more pages will be

more useful, because it’s silly to try to sort one page (and impossible if you have less than

one page) To go into Page Sorter View mode, choose View | Page Sorter View While

viewing a document in the Page Sorter, you can browse several pages at one time and

manage their properties as a collection instead of thumbing through single pages While

you’re using this view, your pages and all their contents are displayed in miniature, but no

other view in CorelDRAW can show you a complete document page flow and offer you the

chance to reorder pages and their properties in one fell swoop The Pick tool is the only

available tool in this view, and the property bar displays several options unique to this

document view You can reorder pages by dragging them to different locations in the current

order, or right-click specific pages to rename, insert, and delete them (see Figure 4-5)

Full-Screen Preview

To fill the entire screen with a view of your current document page at the current zoom level,

use View | Full-Screen Preview, or press theF9shortcut key This view hides all of the

CorelDRAW interface—including your cursor—and shows only the current view rendered

in Enhanced view mode (the Full-Screen Preview default view) To return your view to

Normal, press any key or click either mouse button

Depending on any desktop utilities you might have installed, there might be a

conflict between theF9shortcut to get to Full-Screen Preview and something such

as a desktop calendar or local weather applet You can use a number of remedies:

you can define a different keyboard shortcut, use the View menu or the pop-up menu

instead of a keyboard shortcut, or remove the desktop utility that probably doesn’t

tell you the correct weather in Kazakhstan anyway.

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While you’re using Full-Screen Preview, the view mode and page border view appearance is set according to preferences in the Options dialog To access these options, choose Tools | Options (CTRL+J) and click Display under the Workspace category on the left side of the dialog to access the Display options Full-Screen Preview options, located in the lower part of the dialog, let you choose either draft or enhanced (the default) view as the view mode, and either show or hide the page border

Previewing Selected Only

The Preview Selected Only command, available from the View menu, lets you preview only what’s selected on the page before entering this mode This option works using the Full-Screen Preview preferences and takes a toggle state either On or Off when selected There are two caveats to using this command: if no objects are selected, the Full-Screen Preview offers a nice, energy-wasting white blank screen; you’ll also get similar all-white views if the selected object is not in view before entering this mode The result you get with Preview Selected Only depends entirely on what’s framed in the document window at what viewing resolution you have defined before using the command

Using the View Navigator

The View Navigator is a pop-up viewer that is indispensable for navigating your entire document page when you’ve zoomed in to 10,000 percent and need to quickly move to a different design area without zooming out to get your bearings The View Navigator pop-up window is at the point where the vertical and horizontal scroll bars meet at the lower-right corner of the document window To open the View Navigator pop-up, click-hold the button, the magnifying glass icon

FIGURE 4-5 Page reordering in a multi-page document is as easy as drag and drop

Page 4 is being scooted in front of Page 3.

Click-holding the icon displays a pop-up thumbnail that represents the outermost region

of the page and the application’s desktop The preview frame—the tiny rectangle with the

crosshairs through it—within the View Navigator window indicates the viewing limitations

according to your current Zoom settings Click-drag within the View Navigator pop-up

window to pan around your drawing in the document window; it’s panning by proxy As you

drag, releasing the mouse button ends the navigation

In Figure 4-6 you can see the View Navigator put to the test Let’s say you need to view

or edit one of the gumballs in the machine At 100 percent viewing resolution this would be

a true hassle; luckily, by zooming in, it’s easy to see the gumballs to such a detailed extent

that you could wipe the foolish grin off the center one with the Shape tool, simply by homing

in on this roguish piece of candy by panning the window using the View Navigator

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FIGURE 4-6 The View Navigator steers you in the right direction for precise editing in very

tight views

Drag within the View Navigator preview to pan document view.

Click-hold here to open the View Navigator.